I have become much stronger in my faith as I've got older, maybe the fact that now I have some real life experience to apply what I've learned to helps. I find that the older I get the more it all "clicks"
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Originally Posted by danny_boy
Wow, quite the response.
I honestly believe in a few years, after I ad had my break, I will perhaps return to judaism. Definitely not as strong as I was before.
I do not believe in organized religion. The high priests, or rabbis in judaism set their laws hundreds of years ago, and many are not even applicable today.
My mother has cancer, she's a great woman, where was g-d then.
I dont want this thread to get into why bad things happen to righteous people, but if there is a g-d, why would he let this happen...not murder..which is a choice..but cancer...
Yes, perhaps it is natural selection, and survival of the fittest...but surely, all religions who declare their g-d fair and righteous...who would allow this to happen ?
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I'm sorry about your mother, my family recently has been going through the same thing with colon cancer.
This world was created to be a place where we would experience everything. God made it this way so we could gain experience and be tested in every way. He set in motion all the factors of biology that we see all around us. There is a purpose to it. If he shielded us from illness everytime it came around it wouldn't make much sense for him to have created a system where illness could and would exist. Sometimes the trials of other are the hardest for us to manage.
He created a mortal realm because there is no other way for us to experience mortality.