This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ... we are to see God's Justice in the world, we must understand why they suffer as they do. Many people are unwilling to admit that God is unjust, and so, because they are unable to justify the actual facts spread out before their eyes, fall back on the statement that all these conditions are the workings of an ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ... we are to see God's Justice in the world, we must understand why they suffer as they do. Many people are unwilling to admit that God is unjust, and so, because they are unable to justify the actual facts spread out before their eyes, fall back on the statement that all these conditions are the workings of an inscrutable Providence, whose ways we may not question. This is, of course, not an explanation of the conditions; it is an admission of ignorance. Nor is there any ground for the hope--in the light of the first two theories--which is expressed by many persons, that although there is undoubtedly much injustice and undeserved suffering in the world, death will surely square all and we shall receive our due recompense on the other side of the grave. Have we any justification for this hope? If God created a world so imperfectly conceived that rampant injustice is found everywhere, how do we know that the same state of affairs does not prevail after death? But there is a line of reasoning which carries us out of this intolerable situation and illuminates all our human problems. We may reduce this reasoning to a very simple statement: Life is unjust if we experience any undeserved suffering or unearned happiness. Much comes to us which we have neither earned nor deserved in this life. Therefore, if a just God exists, we must have lived on earth before and during that time started the causes which now are controlling circumstances. We may expand this line of reasoning and approach the problem from a slightly different angle: This life is a living hell if we are the innocent victims of a Power which is either so merciless, unjust or weak, that it is unable to control the world it has created. Unless the conditions of birth, the extent of our capacities and abi...
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