You are not alone. This is a question I think so many people struggle with even as Christians. What are we to God? And “Why does he allow terrible things to happen.” “Where is God when we are in pain and why if he is so powerful and claims to love us so much does he not stop bad things from happening?”

I’m actually reading a book right now where a young woman turns from God after the tragic death of her mother and grape of her sisters. She tries to take matters into her own hands but only ends up making matters worse.

I know that I tend to rail at God when things are not going well. To shake my angry fist at the sky and tell him its his fault. But really I’m blind to see that I may be the cause of the problem or when tragedy strikes that we live in a sinful, selfish, broken world and that these are not the acts of God but of the devil.

How do we battle this? Through him. In him. With him. By him.

Here is a conversation in The Red Siren by M.L.Tyndall

Faith: “But He’s God. He can stop them. He can protect us.”

Dajon: “Yes, He can.” “But pephaps He had other plans. Maybe he allows things to happen that will lead us in a different direction, or bring us closer to Him, or strengthen our character. We do not know. That is were trust comes in.”

“Trust? Faith snickered. “When everything is crumbling down around me?”

“Aye. That is what trust is. Ti’s easy to trust when all is well.” “Trust His word is true Mrs. Westcott, that He loves you, that ‘all things work together for the good of them that love God’ and then see what he can create out of life’s worst calamities”

We must trust. He is trustworthy. Trust is never easy. Its a choice I have to make every day. And he knows you better than you know yourself! I am praying for your heart, that whatever broke it can be healed.
Sorry for the long explanation! I feel like I just wrote a book
Peace be with you.

Personally I’m glad that a being like that doesn’t appear to be in charge. Anyone who creates a universe just to stroke his massive ego isn’t worthy of a moment of my consideration.

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I’d also like to say that I really do appreciate you visiting my blog, and taking the time to comment. It is always good to discuss ideas with someone who doesn’t necessarily hold the same viewpoint as yourself. Hopefully each side can come away better educated even if neither changes their position. I don’t think you can have too much knowledge.

The ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all believed in their own pantheons of gods. Modern studies of these ancient cultures tell us about those beliefs, the gods, and the people. There is nothing in that that disproves (or proves) the existences of those gods.

Yet virtually no-one nowadays believes in their existence. Go figure.

Now, on to these Sanskrit Vedas. I freely admit that I know nothing about them. I have just had a quick scan through the Wikipedia article about them and I’m not really that much wiser. Best I can tell they seem to date up to 4000 years old, and are purported to be ‘not of human agency’. Now, I obviously can’t comment directly on the scientific value of anything written in the texts, but I have my suspicions. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the texts were as accurate and predictive as Nostradamus – i.e. not at all, just very woolly and open to huge amounts of interpretation.

I believe that if such ancient texts – and it seems to me that there are not just these Vedas that are claimed to be scientifically predictive but the likes of the books of the Bible have similar claims – did truly have valid and predictive scientific knowledge contained within them then they would be cited an awful lot in scientific literature, and their scientific validity would not be up for debate. Whilst study of the texts themselves is a very valid branch of archaeological research, it will be purely to better understand the peoples and culture of the time.