Kick wrote on Dec 21
st, 2020 at 5:08am:
I've heard all the arguments used to justify these inconsistencies and they're all lacking for me.
In a nutshell, God is all powerful, we're like him in that we have both good and bad inherent in us, his image not because of two arms two legs, monkeys have that, but something outside the physical. Like him we're engaged in a struggle with ourselves. We're part of him in an internal battle, like antibodies fighting germs.... very simplistic, but basically how it works.... since God is everything, it's a cleansing/purifying process..... the red chap is just a way of visualising things, although real enough as well..... you could just as well visualise it as a fight against an insidious disease.
There is always a need for strife and suffering. There is no triumph without strife. There is no learning without change, there is no joy without sadness etc,.
On another level life is all about the journey, if you're not moving forwards and realising your potentials you're not journeying, you're not real, you're just shadowy footnotes in other peoples journeys.
Unsure if that makes sense, my English isn't great, but perfection is unnatural, therefore must be striven towards rather than a given..... just my opinion.