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Wed, 5-Oct-11 20:33:43
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Proteus wrote:We say G-d condescended to become a human being. . .
PRECOGNITION. One can wish that precognition were possible to the extent that one can be certain of G-d's plan for one's life. Then one would never again have to take risks or make decisions; one would never again be the victim of anyone's errors. But this does not happen. Whatever victories one may meet along the way, the wheel turns round to the point where we began, with the right question and the right answer.
"Where was G-d in those days? . . .Why was he silent? How could he permit this endless slaughter, this triumph of evil?"
The G-d "who spoke on Sinai" was not addressing himself to angels or robots who could do no wrong even if they wanted to. He was speaking to real people with real choices to make, and real consequences that flow from those choices. Auschwitz wasn't G-d's fault. He didn't build the place. And only by changing those who did build it from free moral agents into puppets could he have stopped them from committing their horrific crimes. It was not G-d who failed during the Holocaust or in the Gulag, or on 9/11, or in Bosnia. It is not G-d who fails when human beings do barbaric things to other human beings. Auschwitz is not what happens when the G-d who says "Thou shalt not murder" and "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" is silent. It is what happens when men and women refuse to listen.
The G-d "who spoke on Sinai" was not addressing himself to angels or robots who could do no wrong even if they wanted to. He was speaking to real people with real choices to make, and real consequences that flow from those choices. Auschwitz wasn't G-d's fault. He didn't build the place. And only by changing those who did build it from free moral agents into puppets could he have stopped them from committing their horrific crimes.
It was not G-d who failed during the Holocaust or in the Gulag, or on 9/11, or in Bosnia. It is not G-d who fails when human beings do barbaric things to other human beings. Auschwitz is not what happens when the G-d who says "Thou shalt not murder" and "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" is silent. It is what happens when men and women refuse to listen.
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