God Doesn’t Allow What He Hates

Some say that: ‘God sometimes allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves’

This is not right.

God is not some sort of backroom umpire going around the world allowing and disallowing different offensive, hurtful, awful, disgraceful, disgusting torments, agonies and tortures on the basis of which will ‘accomplish what he loves’.

That’s a horrible picture. Demeaning of a child’s comic book god never mind a real deity,  The Deity,  our God.

It seems God allows us to separate ourselves from God – which doesn’t make him real happy but he allows it – and come to earth to entangle ourselves in matter, in the material world, in order that we might satisfy our own desires, in our own way, with our own free will.

That is:  God allows us to go our own way.

In his material world.

And once we’ve done that whatever happens is a product of only God’s immutable laws and our own wishes.

The laws remain the same for all of us at all times.

Pain and suffering are a necessary consequence, an inevitable concomitant of the material world.

Sensation is pain.  The molecules, the atoms the whole structure provides sensation to us via a mechanism that makes pain.  The mechanism that enables us to feel our surroundings is the same mechanism that makes for pain.

It’s not ‘why does God allow pain?’ Pain is an integral part of the physical world and we know that before we choose to come here.

So it is more a question of ‘why do we choose pain?’

Then there’s the injustice. What people do to each other.

That, too, is an inevitable consequence.  This time an inevitable consequence of free will.

We cannot have free will without injustice for wills will inevitably come into conflict and many conflicts will be resolved unfairly because of the concatenation of factors that come into play.

But if God is to grant free will then it has to be 100% free.  Else nothing works.  It becomes a farce.  Like a movie that keeps coming to a stop,  where actors freeze in place,  where certain things can not be done and without any apparent reason for it…  and so on.

Pain and injustice.  These the things that it is presumed ‘God hates’ but allows in order….. etc.

But it’s not that God allows these things.

It is that these things are inevitable concomitants of a material world on the one hand and free will on the other.