The quintessential dilemma remains ...
Is GOD a master strategist OR is he an enabler .... A control freak or a mild supervisor??
If everything is preordained why does GOD not oblige by sending a dossier to the human being ... this is in store,... this you will have to deal with ..., I will protect you .. but you have to go through the nasty stuff... This is how it is ...
Why does HE then not dissuade his creation - the human being - to stop adding insult to agony ... by trying to change the course of matters ..... .
Why is it that self will plays out predominantly only in case of crisis... Why is it that I cannot be more happy than I am ... I am not struggling.... I just want to be more happy...I know what would it take to make me more happy .....
Can I always create it .... not really !!!
If we, HIS highest creation- are created in HIS image ... then we, by logic, should be able to do ALL as HE does... at least in principle .. if not in magnitude...I mean, I would be very thankful, grateful ...If I could decide the course of my life.....and would have no issues at all if HE would still want to take charge of the rest of the universe ... I am perfectly fine by this ....
And if this..... COMPLETE FREE WILL is pure, wishful thinking, then can GOD please own upto it ??.
Buddy, you got to do what I say you would do .... sulk, cry, stamp your feet... but that's the way things are...
It would be so much more peaceful, and decisive .. if it were to come from HIM...Rather than accepting somebody else's ( a fellow human being's at that ) viewpoint- who would tell you so ...
Other people's point of view - however logical...... can't be accepted as THE final word.
I have read widely ,gone through the literature- which debates this dilemma ...and I am nowhere closer to a decisive answer..... at best what I could understand is ... the broader horizon of the course is decided by HIM ... one can of course choose the road to the path..
I am going to pray for that DOSSIER, all right !!!
Can a human being,chart the course of his/her own life ... or is everything preordained.... everything from the colour of the eyes, to the parents one gets born to , to who one marries.. or does not, to how much success ( or not) one would achieve in life, to the major work/ occupation/ offering of one's life.... to major life events- accidents, near fatal diseases, loss of loved ones ... to -when and how one would experience the last moment of this journey....
Is everything contained in the protoplasmic DOT .. which emerges from the physical union of two humans - one's parents...or does this DOT, just contain what one needs to survive on a physiological level ... and one can actually determine the QUALITY of one's survival .
Is GOD a master strategist OR is he an enabler .... A control freak or a mild supervisor??
If everything is preordained why does GOD not oblige by sending a dossier to the human being ... this is in store,... this you will have to deal with ..., I will protect you .. but you have to go through the nasty stuff... This is how it is ...
Why does HE then not dissuade his creation - the human being - to stop adding insult to agony ... by trying to change the course of matters ..... .
Why is it that self will plays out predominantly only in case of crisis... Why is it that I cannot be more happy than I am ... I am not struggling.... I just want to be more happy...I know what would it take to make me more happy .....
Can I always create it .... not really !!!
If we, HIS highest creation- are created in HIS image ... then we, by logic, should be able to do ALL as HE does... at least in principle .. if not in magnitude...I mean, I would be very thankful, grateful ...If I could decide the course of my life.....and would have no issues at all if HE would still want to take charge of the rest of the universe ... I am perfectly fine by this ....
And if this..... COMPLETE FREE WILL is pure, wishful thinking, then can GOD please own upto it ??.
Buddy, you got to do what I say you would do .... sulk, cry, stamp your feet... but that's the way things are...
It would be so much more peaceful, and decisive .. if it were to come from HIM...Rather than accepting somebody else's ( a fellow human being's at that ) viewpoint- who would tell you so ...
Other people's point of view - however logical...... can't be accepted as THE final word.
I have read widely ,gone through the literature- which debates this dilemma ...and I am nowhere closer to a decisive answer..... at best what I could understand is ... the broader horizon of the course is decided by HIM ... one can of course choose the road to the path..
I am going to pray for that DOSSIER, all right !!!
