In a message dated 7/13/99 10:14:23 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
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> Are we far enought off topic yet?
>
> > Why does God allow suffering was the question....
>
> We lived with God before this life as spirits.
> We could see that he was perfect and had a
> winderfull physical body. (Yes, God is ressurected
> and has a physical body.)
> We wanted to become like him.
> Since we were with him in heaven, we could not
> understand what a great place heaven is since there
> was nothing to compare it to.
>
> Thus WE elected to come here to earth and suffer
> all the "slings and arows of outrageous fortune"
> so we could see what it is like. After we die and are resurected
> into a body like God's body is, then we will see eye-to-eye
> and truly understand happiness.
>
> God does not inflict us with suffering. We chose it
> for very good reasons.
NOBODY CHOOSES to have their baby shot in the head
by a gangsters bullets.
I am not EVEN going to touch the rest of this. We have
DEFINITELY drifted TOO FAR OFF TOPIC.
>
> You might as much ask why does anyone ever
> go to a scarry movie? Because the experience
> is interesting and worhtwhile. (Acually I don't
> much like scary movies.)
>
> R. Keene