There is no easy answer to this question...
And i had my beliefs but i dont know all answers.. I dont even know if i know the begining of an answer...But i think....
First there is not a distance between God and us, this distance exist for our ego not for the part of us united with God...
Then God dont give us free will as something external to consciousness, he gives us consciousness which implicated free will...
This consciousness is the polarity between the finite and the infinite , between being out of God , the ego, or being with God, unconditional love...
The free will is the ability to create our action motive in our consciousness as a content who draw us away from love toward our ego or away from our ego toward the source ... ( the ego is good as a tool, evil as a king )
When someone commit evil he does it to himself first and last ....But he does not know it because he was drown in his ego away from the source in his consciousness...
Then the existence of evil dont prove there is a creator as you said because God dont gives us free will as a permit to do anything, he gives us consciousness...ABSOLUTE consciousness with all knowledge there is ...he gives us also an ego, a separated identity who will learn how to manage absolute knowledege... We must think to create our consciousness content... The conscious content is not given without our own co- creating thinking process...
Then if someone commit evil , a part of himself must reject the other part.... This is true hell... There is no judge here save our own consciousness...We are torn apart if not now comitting evil , tomorrow in this life or after , when we will know everything... Justice is absolute because we are justice.... As we are love...
Now is my reasonning and arguments or opinions will console a mother seeing the death of his children ?
No not at all...
It is the reason why we must pray in silence and goes through the suffering learning school, which we choose when we were near God...Between two lifes...
The life succession is a necessary reality and also illusion....One part of ourself created perfect is with God , the other part of ourself learn by himself... the two part together are consciousness free will... A process by which Man create his own freedom by choosing freedom over slavery , unconditional love over the ego tool in this body...
If i could not think the thoughts i partake here with you i would be devastated and without hope as we all are reading the news...
The only reason i thought them , is my own experience of stillness, and the intuitive knowing that all there is is never lost definitely....
i studied set theory , younger, and apart from his mystical roots, i discovered in it the real mystery of the infinite... Mathematics was my hope to understand and believe in light ...
Cantor see through it....Nothing could be lost....No love wasted.... No sufferings useless for those who suffers... Without this certainty i will be desesperate...
Then read my words as an invitation to think anew... Not as a mere set of words , who could be only useless anyway if they are written to console a mother who just lost a child in a "useless" accident or crime.... There is no word to say here , no thought to give , no opinion will do, only silent prayer and our loving presence...
I also don’t get the “Free Will” argument. I’ve been an Atheist ever since I could think about theWorld at large, largely because of the unrequited evil argument. The counter to this, as I (perhaps mis)understand this, is:
1) The Creator gave Man Free Will.
2) Man uses this free will to do awful things to mankind
3) therefore the existence of evil proves that there is a Creator. We have to accept
the evil that Man does because it reflects the Greatness of God in allowing us to make these choices.
Sorry, don’t buy it. What kind of “Free Will” do Ukrainian Villagers have when they are are tortured and mudered? Or a housewife in Hiroshima trying to buy groceries when her skin gets flayed off?
I prefer to accept the Homo Sapiens are an accidental, and probably temporary, phenomenon in this Universe. Sure, we can make good capacitors, all kinds of technological wonders, including the bomb and gas chambers. I prefer to believe that none of this is by intelligent design
