Even though my blog comes from the fourth paragraph of the work, I promise I read all of Book V. (:
Anyways, something that really stuck out to me in Book V was the fact that as she was talking to Boethius, Philosophy said something really eye opening that sparked the rest of the conversation in this book. She asked Boethius, "For what place can be left for anything happening at random, so long as God controls everything in order?"
This just hit me because we all question this everyday. If God can control everything, then why do random things happen? Not even that, why do bad things happen? Why do babies die? I think if God controlled everything just as they were supposed to be, then we would be free of sin and would probably still be living in the Garden. I think God allows random things to happen so that we can focus on Him if what is random is good or bad. It allows our hearts to be opened to what He is doing in our lives right where we are and what we are going through. I think it is all apart of God's grand design that weird, crazy, random things occur.
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I agree with you. I've thought of why bad things happen to us before and I think it's to get us closer to God. Maybe it acts as a warning to get us away from something worse that could happen. In the end though, I believe it's all for our own well-being.
ReplyDeleteRandomness is a great way to spark a day. I like your perspective on this as we should be daily thinking of our God and how He is incoperated in our everday lives.
ReplyDeleteI think this argument is treading on dangerous ground. While I see where you guys are going I have many friends who identify as agnostic and would tear this argument to shreds. To them, this makes God appear mean. Why would he create us as perfect beings then just let us do whatever we want? This seems to be leaning towards the Deist (clockmaker)theory. God made Earth then just got board, sprinkled on some chance, sat back and said, "Have fun suckers!"I understand your argument, but I believe it needs to be stronger.
ReplyDeleteThis just goes with the free will argument rather than everything being predetermined for us I believe. We have seemingly randomness due to free will and our sin. This does not have to necessarily be a direct cause from something we did, but rather dating back to Adam and Eve. God knew that baby would die. It seems random to us, but it is not. I think in the perfect world that God created, babies would not die. Sin entered the world with Adam and Eve and then the rest of history and tragedies all play out.
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