Nimos
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Why would it be good? I don't see any benefits from it. Compared to living in a "situation" where suffering is not required.Why do you think that suffering is not very good?
And this would be impossible, had it been any other way?I believe that God chose the physical existence because it is a kind of workshop whereby humans can acquire spiritual qualities, which really equates to developing our character.
Again, could you imagine living in the world we do now, exactly the same. But where animals didn't suffer? Now could you imagine a world where neither animals or humans suffered?
Also couldn't it have been so for instance only animals are material beings, while human were not, but were able to interact with animals, but not hurt them? or whatever setup you prefer. Maybe animals where ethereal beings with a fixed amount to avoid having them eat each other and humans couldn't eat or hurt them.
Because are there any limits to how things could have been?
But why would that be good? Why would God care if we grow or not?By living life and making good decisions as well as bad decisions, choosing between good and evil, we learn and grow from our experiences.
Imagine you standing at the end of the road, do you think that God goes... "Trailblazer throughout your life, you have really grown, Im so happy now, as you are so much more interesting to speak to now, compared to when you were first born. Just imagine, Me, all knowing, having always existed and created everything talking with a baby? Ohh no.. my dear Trailblazer, talking to yet another human, which have lived for maybe 85 years, now that is where we can have some interesting conversations. Now take a seat and tell me something I don't already know"
Why on Earth should God care about it? Because WE didn't ask for it, so for us it makes absolutely no difference, whether we are mindless robots or not. We wouldn't have known the difference anyway, we are just born into whatever show God has going on.
Same as above, why would God care? We don't know the difference anyway, so the only one who could potentially care is God.Sure, God could have created us as spiritual beings who are suited to live in the spiritual world, outside of time and space, but then we would not have the opportunity to learn and grow spiritually by living in the material world.
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