Ehav4Ever
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In another thread, well as a question I once answered on Quara, series fo questions were asked which I will summarize in the following way.
- Why would a serial killer be allowed to abuse and murder a dozen innocent children over the course of his lifetime?
- Is what ever created everything helpless to intervene because of the human free will?
- Why doesn't what ever created everything respond and react at certain times to what human perceive as human suffering?
- The average human, non-Jewish, has 7 mitzvoth/commands/rules with which to base human life and society on.
- Two of which relate to your base questions are that a) murder is forbidden and b) that human societies must establish systems of justice and enforce them as well as strictly abide by them. Each of these two can be broken up into volumes of sub-categories.
- For Jews, as a nation it is 613.
- As a part of the "type of free will" there are two "basic" sides people. One called the Yetzer HaTov and the Yetzer HaRa.
- Both sides are important. Both sides have a purpose.
- These two sides are part of how humans can choose to either receive the good of the reality we are created in or reject it/distance themselves from it; also included is the ability make to make a mess of things.
- Both are fully in a person's ability to cotrol and both have a use that can work out for the benefit of the individual and for society.
- All choices have consquences.
- The personal choice to disregard the 7 mitzvoth come along with personal and societal consquences.
- The societal choice to disregard the 7 mitzvoth come along with personal and societal consquences.
- By like token the choice hold by them and establish them have personal and collective consquences.
- Again, for the Jewish nation there are 613.
- Every person has a type of account that comes along with their actions and the actions of the soceity around them.
- The action or inaction of the individual and society can tip things in one direction or another.
- Actions taken or not taken have an affect on this account.
- Further, there are no such things as small actions that effect nothing. All action or inaction leads somewhere.
- As humans we don't have the ability to see this account, at least not fully. (I.e. see the following video about what I mean on perspective The fundamentals of space-time: Part 2 - Andrew Pontzen and Tom Whyntie)
- There is this world and there is a world to come.
- Using a military metapor, this world is like "boot-camp" and anyone who has done military service knows that boot-camp has many challenges associeted with it that a perspective soldier is expected to overcome personally and as a part of a group.
- In a good/just military training system the challenges are never impossibe to overcome and the goal of them being there is to get the perspective soldier in the right mindset and physical state to be a proper soldier.
- The world to come is like the accomplishment of surviving and overcoming boot camp. Some people reach the goal, some people quit, and some people make a mess of the whole experience.
- Death and suffering in this world is not the end. Depending on the type of life a person lived there can be a reward when a person has suffered and when they have overcome adversity.
- A person can live a life where they receive all the benefits of the good they do only this world.
- A person can live a life where they will only receive the benefits of the good they do only the world to come.
- There are some people who are able to receive the good in both.
- There are some people who live their lives where they will receive all of the results of the bad they do in this world and in the world to come.
- Receiving the bad in the world to come is often translated into not have a place in the world to come.
- There is no eternal place of punishment in the world to come.
- The Creator of all things has the ability to, if you will, "see the bigger picture w/o human eyes." I.e. the Creator of all things is not a human, has no human emotions, and is able to grasp the real bigger picture on a univeral/beyond universal level, so to speak.
- Combined with that the Creator of all things established the universe in the way it is for the benefit of humanity.
- Humanity can choose to use that gift correctly or not.
- The Creator also established ways for those who choose to receive the good and use this gift properly to survive and overcome all challenges, either in this world or in the world to come.
- The Creator's seeing the bigger picture also includes knowing when to intervene, how to intervene, when to prevent certain types of people from being turning away from evil, knowing when to strengthen those who are doing the right things, knowing when to allow a life to begin, knowing when to allow a life to end, knowing how to allow a life to begin, knowing how to allow a life to end, and knowing the conquences of how humans respond to the reality we are born into and will one day pass away from.
- Given that we humans have no say in our birth, it would stand to reason that we also only have a certain say in our deaths. For example, all humans are created with an end date, so to speak, we cannot extend that beyond what we were created for. YET, we can lesson it and we can make it a long hard journey by our choices and the choices of the society around us. We can also make it the most joyful life every based again on our choices and the choices in society around us.
- By like token, given that we ourselves didn't establish any of the universal or phsyical laws of the universe that allows life to be sustained we at some point have to adjust to the fact that there are things that are not in our control and we, while alive in a human body, don't have the ability see all the angles. Yet, we have every right to research, question, challenge, and come to conclusions.
- Lastly, we humans have the world the way we want it, at any given time.
- We have been given the power to choose between making things perfect w/o suffering or to make a world that is full of it.
- This is the way most humans want it and that is the way the Creator has structured it; that is until humans choose to reject the mindsets and actions that individually cause suffering and collectively cause suffering.