https://taloswiki.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Faith.emlFaith.eml - Revision history2026-04-03T22:34:13ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.1https://taloswiki.org/index.php?title=Faith.eml&diff=7425&oldid=prevBosterm93: Created page with "{{TTP1Document | file = faith.eml | source = EP_arch | date = 0000/12/09 | location = C6 | terminal = C06 }} <pre> From: Neil Macomber To: A/%$$% Subject: Stray thoughts at midnight Dearest Brother, I admit that I am finding it very difficult to believe in a loving God under these circumstances. Why would a loving God inflict such pain and suffering on good, kind people? If truly there is a personal God... how can He be the same God who will subject those children..."2024-06-27T02:06:28Z<p>Created page with "{{TTP1Document | file = faith.eml | source = EP_arch | date = 0000/12/09 | location = <a href="/wiki/C6" title="C6">C6</a> | terminal = C06 }} <pre> From: Neil Macomber To: A/%$$% Subject: Stray thoughts at midnight Dearest Brother, I admit that I am finding it very difficult to believe in a loving God under these circumstances. Why would a loving God inflict such pain and suffering on good, kind people? If truly there is a personal God... how can He be the same God who will subject those children..."</p>
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From: Neil Macomber<br />
To: A/%$$%<br />
Subject: Stray thoughts at midnight<br />
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Dearest Brother,<br />
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I admit that I am finding it very difficult to believe in a loving God under these circumstances. Why would a loving God inflict such pain and suffering on good, kind people? If truly there is a personal God... how can He be the same God who will subject those children to such unbearable pain? I remember all the answers we were taught, yet none of them seem believable now.<br />
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I don't want to stand in front of people and preach something that I don't feel in my heart. Better to have doubts than to be a hypocrite. And yet I also cannot deny the experience that led me to this vocation. So what is the truth? Perhaps it is that I neglected the mystery of God, used "He moves in mysterious ways" as an excuse rather than as the terrifying acknowledgment it truly is. Perhaps I made God too human.<br />
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If the universe has a purpose, that does not mean that it revolves around us. A sobering thought, but are we not supposed to be humble in the face of the divine?<br />
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With love,<br />
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