I started thinking about this about a week ago. There is so much wickedness in our world which is so widespread and commonly accepted. One theory which would answer everything, including why "God allows bad things to happen to good people" would be that Earth is really hell, and that all of us who think we are 'good' people are really demons in hell because of past bad karma. People suffer so much wickedness here on Earth because that is what happens to demons in hell. We are reaping what we sow.
I mean, think about it. In a world where some farmers are being paid subsidies not to plant, over 16000 African children die of malnutrition every day. "Good' people would not allow that to happen. But, demons? Well, they would be more focused on themselves, going to work every day, paying bills, and being too obsessed with "making a living" to lift a finger to prevent six million children a year from dying before their fifth birthday.
I began thinking about all the things I have done in my life which, honesty demands I admit, were not acts of love
And, I began thinking about when Jesus told his disciples that even John the Baptist -- the best among men --- would be the least in the kingdom of heaven [Matthew 11:11].
I thought about a period when I was in the hospital recovering from open heart surgery, when I could tell my oxygen was turned off, but could not convince any of my nurses to just take a few seconds to walk around my bed and check my oxygen tank. I couldn't do it because I had all kinds of tubes and wires hooked up to my body at the time. I lay there during that time thinking all I need is just one nurse who has any kind of compassion at all. Sadly, it took 2 or 3 days of shifts of nurses before I got one I had never had before who checked it. Sure enough, it was set to its lowest setting. I could have died for no reason other than several shifts of nurses [black as well as white] looked at me as something other than a fellow child of God worthy of love.
Yeah, that would be just normal behavior, to be expected, if we were living in hell, telling each other I'm blesst, when, in fact, we were demons suffering in hell for past bad karma.
I mean, think about it. In a world where some farmers are being paid subsidies not to plant, over 16000 African children die of malnutrition every day. "Good' people would not allow that to happen. But, demons? Well, they would be more focused on themselves, going to work every day, paying bills, and being too obsessed with "making a living" to lift a finger to prevent six million children a year from dying before their fifth birthday.
I began thinking about all the things I have done in my life which, honesty demands I admit, were not acts of love
And, I began thinking about when Jesus told his disciples that even John the Baptist -- the best among men --- would be the least in the kingdom of heaven [Matthew 11:11].
I thought about a period when I was in the hospital recovering from open heart surgery, when I could tell my oxygen was turned off, but could not convince any of my nurses to just take a few seconds to walk around my bed and check my oxygen tank. I couldn't do it because I had all kinds of tubes and wires hooked up to my body at the time. I lay there during that time thinking all I need is just one nurse who has any kind of compassion at all. Sadly, it took 2 or 3 days of shifts of nurses before I got one I had never had before who checked it. Sure enough, it was set to its lowest setting. I could have died for no reason other than several shifts of nurses [black as well as white] looked at me as something other than a fellow child of God worthy of love.
Yeah, that would be just normal behavior, to be expected, if we were living in hell, telling each other I'm blesst, when, in fact, we were demons suffering in hell for past bad karma.