Strong upvote from me. I appreciate the decently broad source of quotes and I hope you’ve read some of that material fully. I think the question is interesting and worth serious pondering, though I’m a bit sceptical as to how much progress on it is really possible outside of individualistic discovery via something like meditation.
Father love and mother love is an interesting way of looking at it. Though it’s not clear “Father Love” is actually a thing or just something we projected onto actually existing “Mother Love.”
To me actually the problem of evil seems relatively unimportant. Just drop the “omnipotent,” which doesn’t make much sense anyway. (Why work with infinities when finite things are way more likely?)* The much bigger, much more interesting problem is the lack of communication.
Humans are certainly not the best at speaking or listening. But we understand some things. You could imagine god explaining things to us at our level, even if only to say: hey, you guys are just getting started; don’t worry, nothing makes sense so far, but in about 1000 lifetimes it will.
I have some thoughts / responses to that question, but that’s not really the topic here.
* Edit: Not to suggest that this is necessarily the solution, but there are a number of solutions with which I’m fairly satisfied.
Strong upvote from me. I appreciate the decently broad source of quotes and I hope you’ve read some of that material fully. I think the question is interesting and worth serious pondering, though I’m a bit sceptical as to how much progress on it is really possible outside of individualistic discovery via something like meditation.
Father love and mother love is an interesting way of looking at it. Though it’s not clear “Father Love” is actually a thing or just something we projected onto actually existing “Mother Love.”
To me actually the problem of evil seems relatively unimportant. Just drop the “omnipotent,” which doesn’t make much sense anyway. (Why work with infinities when finite things are way more likely?)* The much bigger, much more interesting problem is the lack of communication.
Humans are certainly not the best at speaking or listening. But we understand some things. You could imagine god explaining things to us at our level, even if only to say: hey, you guys are just getting started; don’t worry, nothing makes sense so far, but in about 1000 lifetimes it will.
I have some thoughts / responses to that question, but that’s not really the topic here.
* Edit: Not to suggest that this is necessarily the solution, but there are a number of solutions with which I’m fairly satisfied.