One might think that, once we know something is true, it could be known.
Maybe in time.
And how it could be known, would be a practical question with little further philosophical importance. Let’s say the problem of suffering.

In the previous post (1) we see how Dr. Bart Ehrman, according to Scripture, interprets God’s Will and the problem of suffering. He is questioned about it. 

“My view is that as an agnostic, without the existence of God, how do I decide what’s good and what’s bad? I have a fairly traditional utilitarian view, whatever is good for most people is good. Why is it that? I don’t want people to suffer!”

The question asked by the woman is: “How do you know that it’s not good that people suffer? So where do you get the morality that tells you that suffering is bad?”

Let’s see if another tradition, Advaita Vedanta, approaches the problem from a different angle.

The One Source

Let me summarize what I said yesterday. I always tell my visitors: if you have a question, go back to the basics and you will probably get an answer! Or better! The question will dissolve!!!

The basics are amazingly simple, I keep repeating all the reason is… the One Source! 

Call it by whatever name you like, call it Nōmĕn, call it The Source, call it Consciousness, call it Absolute, call it Primal Energy, whatever you call it THAT is the only reality!  

From this reality, from the Nōmĕn has emerged the phenomenality of all phenomenal manifestation. That is the basic model!

From the Source has appeared and whatever has appeared emerged is an […] object. The human being is one object from the totality of objects[…] is one object among billions of objects in the phenomenal manifestation.

[…] The human being is only a machine. A uniquely programmed computer. 

Suffering

[…] was shot in Israel despite the fame of Israeli security. Which I think received a bad blow up to that murder.

The young man was asked by policeman […] why did you kill a good man like that?

And the answers came spontaneously from that young lad. […] 

The young man said: God made me do it! 

Free Will

Everything that has happened is going to happen, (and if everything) has already been decided by God then why should I make a choice?

My answer is: Don’t make a choice, normally (nobody) is forcing you to make a choice but you will force yourself to choose because without making (THAT) choice you can’t go ahead in life. 

A five-year-old, six-year-old boy takes a pistol and machine from his policeman father, goes and kills so many other pupils enlisted in his school.

[…] Or another person does the same thing and then shoots himself. 

So it has happened because it is God’s Will.

But if you say: what is to prevent me from doing it?

My answer is: do you think your programming, fairly normal programming will ever allow you to prevent such a thing?

It won’t! It is only a psychopathic kind of organism (yours) which is created for such actions to happen.

Who will be able to prevent it?

Who knows

See, so when things happen there are two ways of looking at (it).

A happens which leads to B, B leeds to C, C leads to D.

But the point I’m making is… that there is another way of looking at it.

If D has to happen according to God’s will, C has to happen.

And if C has to happen B has to happen, and B has to happen A has to happen!

Therefore A may seem to be a very bad thing but if that A is supposed to lead to D, which is a very good thing, the human intellect cannot know!

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