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@MarkusssAre you saying, why doesn't God intervene?
The gifts and the callings of God are without repentance. God gave mankind (through Adam) dominion over the Earth. The responsibility he gives us he does not take back. Lucifer co-opted that dominion when he deceived Adam and Eve, but Jesus paid the price to get it back, and shares that responsibility with us as joint heirs with Christ. We are to submit unto God and the responsibility to resist Satan is given to us. We were given the Great Commission. The responsibility to share the Gospel is given to us. Regrettably, most of mankind does not want the responsibility, so they blindly follow men in their organized religion letting the leaders tell them what to believe about God. They forsake their own responsibility to share the Gospel believing it is the responsibility of the pastoral staff to witness for them. Then when things sour they can blame the leadership instead of themselves for shirking their duties to God.
My response is not directed at Norbert, by the way. I just used his clarifying question to chime in.
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Another consideration is the complexity of living beings. Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15 on the topic of what our glorified bodies will be like in the resurrection, says that not all flesh is the same. If the flesh is not the same then it is true that spirits are not the same. Animals are used to compare human behavior. For example, we are not to be like the ostrich that hides its head in the sand and leaves its young open to attack. People come in all kinds of stripes and varieties. We are not to try and conform other people to our ideas of what a person should be like. I think this is why so many marriages fail. Spouses do not accept the differences of their partners and try to conform them to their idea of what their partner should be like instead of accepting their differences as God given and embracing the benefit of those differences. On the job we have the same problem and in the church. Church leadership and congregation members assume that everyone should be like their idea of what a Christian means.
I have stated to others in the past that God is infinite. He can not be fully expressed in one person alone. Jesus is the only one who could, yet even with Jesus he wants a fuller expression of himself which is why we are all members of his body. God needs the ethnic and cultural differences for his life to be expressed. Congregations that are not mixed ethnically fall short of that expression.
My point is that much suffering occurs between people because of their ignorance of others and their trying to conform others to their idea of what people should be like.
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