This terrible world
>>>How can God create this terrible world in His Loving consciousness?<<<
The answer is very simple: the question is nonsense, there is no terrible world.
Let's try to find out, when the world seems terrible. Johnny, age two and a half years, falls over a toy and smashes the lovely flowers, his mother picked an hour ago. Mother is really sad. Johnny's world falls apart.
Peter learnt from his father Mark, "when somebody is in your way, kick him." Peter is a "young soul". In his series of reincarnations, he is in the phase, that he has to try out his limits. Father Mark, in this life, has to learn that giving a good example to children, is an important responsibility.
Both are in a necessary phase in a good and holy, development.
Yes, but why is all that learning necessary? Why don't we do good from the start? It would be so agreeable for everybody. First, a human being hardly can be satisfied. We get used to the high standard of friendliness and when somebody forgets to look at us when shaking hands, we are terribly vexed.
Yes, but why can human beings hardly be satisfied... why aren't they perfect and happy from the beginning? Simply always? Well, in that case there would be perfect harmony all over the place. Everything would be consciously One with God. There would be no separate human beings, there would be no creation!!
Indeed, creation as such is depending on there being harmony and disharmony, good *and* bad. What we call "reality" in daily life "consists of" black and white, hard and soft, beautiful and ugly, so called good and bad.
Why "so called"? As we saw above, "bad" always has a reason, a good reason. Not a good excuse, but a good aim. And "good" is good because it has a reason, a good reason, a good aim. Exactly as good as "bad". "Good" and "bad" as such are illusions. The reason we have been taught, that "bad" is bad, is, that doing bad things is, on the long run, stupid. On our way to our ultimate goal, doing a bad thing is taking the wrong road at the crossing and so having to do a part of the road twice.
The reason some of us have been taught, that God is sad or insulted when we do something bad, is, that we do something, that is hurting harmony, and God symbolises harmony. Of course God cannot be hurt. He/She is timeless and "cannot" change. When we insult God consciously, subjectively we hurt harmony and, probably unconsciously, we know that we have to find our way back to harmony by unlearning very much.
Seen from the perspective of God, we do not leave harmony for one splitsecond. We are constantly on our way from Him.... to Him, in the meantime experiencing and growing, growing to be one with Him in a grown up state..... in perfect happiness.... perfect.
I suppose that this is not easily understood and I suppose also, that not everybody agrees. In both cases I hope you will let us (me) know.
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