Students Die on
the Way to a Dream—Who Is in Charge Here?
#angels #spirits #spiritualadvice #fedextruckmeetsbus
#angels #spirits #spiritualadvice #fedextruckmeetsbus
You can be from
any form of spirituality and question the fate of wide-eyed, eager student, who
wanted to make better of themselves, entwined with an out-of-control Fed Ex
truck to meet the death of 10 people, including the two drivers. No black box
exists to help us unravel the mystery that might appease millions of onlookers
yesterday. For me, it’s just one more example of the seemingly randomness of
disaster and the innocent lives it takes.
However, if we
look past our hurt and the havoc all of this wreaked in the lives of anyone
involved, we might see a bigger picture. Example: one day I was stuck in
traffic and decided to take an alternate route to the YMCA to teach my morning
class. As I was driving home on the path I would have taken there, the remains
of three cars and a truck were being towed away. Yes, a big collision had
occurred about the exact time I would have been driving in that direction. I
have no idea if I would have been a part of that wreck, and I hope to never
know. But, I do know that I took the safer route that morning. Who or what,
exactly, is watching us and leading our minds to safety. And more importantly,
when we end up in a wreck or a disaster, are we in a path set for destiny?
I’m not one to truly
believe in randomness. To a God who gave me a dream about 9-11 almost down to
the building and the plane one year before the crash, when my partner worked in
the World Trade Center, I don’t believe the dream was random. Someone,
something, some entity, if you will, was guiding me away from disaster and my
partner too. So, if this same spiritual force that gave me the dream is available
to us, why are some still left to die unexpectedly. Is it destiny??
Freewill and Destiny have long been an issue in
Religion.
People and
Their Free Will:
If God made the game, its rules, and the
players, then how can any player be free? Some arguments against God focus
on the inability for humankind to process free will.
Moses Maimonides said:
Does God know or does He not know that
a certain individual will be good or bad? If thou sayest 'He knows,’ then it
necessarily follows that man is compelled to act as God knew beforehand he
would act, otherwise God's knowledge would be imperfect.…
Some people counter this thought with God
does know in advance what I will do, because free will is to be understood only
as freedom from coercion. The actions of a human are determined by a human
acting on relatively strong or weak urges—both from God and the environment
around him/her—and his or her own relative power to choose.
Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada states the following: “…man does have limited free will; he
can decide whether or not to surrender to the will of Krishna (God). All other
material happenings and their implications are inconceivably predestined.”
Here are some
other beliefs taken from Wikipedia:
Ø
Molinism
argues that God can know in advance what we will do, even though free will in
the fullest sense of the phrase does exist, because God somehow knows how
agents would freely act in any given circumstance.
Ø
Omnipotence
seems to include the power to set a limit on what can be known. Moreover, God
chooses to know and predetermine some things, but not others. This allows for
humankind’s free moral choices.
Ø
Omniscience
must include the choices humans will make or else God could not know anything
after the very first human choice was ever made.
Ø
Presentism
means that God knows everything that has ever happened, is happening and will
happen.
Ø "God
is outside time" is a
proposition that was first brought into existence by Thomas Aquinas and C.S.
Lewis. This suggests that God’s perception of time is different, and that this
is relevant to our understanding of our own free will.
Lewis writes
in Mere
Christianity:
But suppose God is outside
and above the Time-line. In that case, what we call ‘tomorrow’ is visible to
Him in just the same way as what we call today. All the days are ‘Now’ for Him.
He does not remember you doing things yesterday, He simply sees you doing them:
because, though you have lost yesterday, He has not.
Then there is
predestination and fatalism… Whew… Who
knew that there could be so many conceptions of God and Spirit? The truth is,
none of us know exactly the extent of God or what the existence of God means to
each of us, personally. So, like politics, we can only agree to disagree.
To create my belief, I just picked and chose
what made sense to me and threw out the rest. That is what I do in life when it
comes to personal belief. If this gives you the liberty to try my version of
how to make your own authentic belief, I hope you try. We have to act in life
from our core beliefs. When we invest in our most authentic self’s knowledge,
we invest in something we can build a house on, a firm foundation. That is
good.
When answering the question about is God the
storm, or is the storm, God? You might want to consider exactly what you are
willing to attribute to God as the Creator. Certainly, if you think God is
responsible for the storm and its damage, then you would have to believe that
God may also be responsible for you and me, for our decisions, and for our
outcome.
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