If God is always with us,
then why...
did he allow
Jesus to be crucified?
did Beethoven lose his hearing?
was Helen Keller deaf and blind?
do babies and loved ones die too soon?
don't I look like... (Brad Pitt) / (Jennifer Aniston)?
am I not rich?
... and the list is endless; I'm sure you get the point. We all have
afflictions; the embodiment of yours is yours to make or to ignore...
it's a matter of your particular outlook on life, your decision and
personal choice. A study of The Urantia Book can help in making those
choices and decisions.
You may find the Book of Job
in the Bible and the
discussion
of Job in The Urantia Book meaningful.
There is a short list in The
Urantia Book called "the inevitabilities of life" which you might wish
to consider, which begins:
(3:5.5)
The uncertainties of life
and
the vicissitudes of existence do not in any manner contradict the
concept of the universal sovereignty of God. All evolutionary creature
life is beset by certain inevitabilities. Consider the following...
Paper
1, The Universal Father is a
great beginning for understanding God's relationship to creation; it
says, for example,
It
is literally true, for “in him we all live and move and have
our being.”
