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This entire argument against unnecessary suffering is like the dog finding the prize. The prize being a bone. The bone being the tip of a dinosaurs tail. Does he realize it's not just a bone?

What people seem to overlook, or possibly not understand at all, is called the law of reciprocity. It's the origin of jail house lingo "what goes around, comes around".

We overlook it but the Bible doesn't. It's there in black and white. "Law of reciprocity"

What it means is, things outside our understanding is set into motion by our every motion, be it good or bad. Boiled down simply, it means 'you steal, you will be robbed', 'you harm, you will be harmed'.

It's not that God punishes. In fact, it's entirely out of His hands. This is a law just as there is a law of gravity. This 'law of reciprocity' was set in motion when the earth was created, just as gravity was. You can't change or control gravity and you can't change or control reciprocity.

Just as you learn that gravity will kill you if you jump off a 4th story balcony, you learn that you can't do some things due to reciprocity. Well, you CAN but do you really WANT to?

Ever hear of "the sins of the father, visited upon the son"? Again it's the same law only instead of only affecting the aggressor, it has come back around in the next generation which causes the same sin to be perpitrated, which then reflects again on the next generation and so on.

We think on these things as 'spiritual' only because we don't have the tools to understand it, control it, change it nor do we have any way of communicating with it. It's something 'out there', out of our control.

Now, many generations into the existance of mankind, mankind questions where these horrid things come from. How are we to know what our fathers or great-great-great grandfathers did, that affects us today? A time was that we would know but family is not what it used to be and so many of us don't know the first thing about our true heritage. If we did, we might be able to put the story together and better understand our present day situations.

Now for the answer to this problem that we have no control over. Point blank it's Jesus. You see, that's the very reason He had to do the things He did. "That" pretty well sums up the purpose.

One vital thing Jesus said, before He was led off to slaughter was, "I come to set you free". THAT is what He was talking about. Our description for THAT, is reciprocity. It couldn't be ended any other way.

So now what? Well, for one thing there's no way we can truly understand Jesus and how He did what He did so we are left only with just taking it for what it's worth. Our freedom. And the only way to 'take it' is the way God said for us to and that's explained in John 3:16.

You see, people draw this weird concept that to go the Jesus road, is to become some sort of monk and give up all of life's little goodies. Is that what, "I come to set you free" means? Is that really logic, to you?

If people think that the story of Jesus couldn't possibly be true, they need to ponder a little longer on how it is they came into being on this earth. Now really...does that make sense?

Does it really make sense that there are things called cells and they have a mind of their own and they split and grow. Does it really make sense that cells know what sort of being they are a part of? That cells are individuals?

You can actually take that as fact and still dismiss Jesus because His story doesn't make sense?

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