Why Settle for Less Than Perfect Happiness: Addressing Suffering At Its Root One of the longstanding questions of believers in God, particularly in the Judeo-Christian tradition, is “If God is all-good, how could God create a universe that contains evil or in which people suffer?
Or, if God didn’t create evil or suffering per se, how could God allow it?” Many people slide into atheism largely for lack of an adequate address to these questions. This course examines the history of this question (and the responses to it), and then provides a real answer to the problem of suffering, by placing responsibility where it belongs on us and elaborating what we must understand and do (which is necessarily Spiritual in nature) in order to be completely free of suffering, and to truly help others be completely from suffering. SL103: Evidence for the Existence of the Greater Reality Anyone interested in spirituality (and the reasons why it makes sense for a human life to be organized around spiritual practice) should be aware of the latest evidence available confirming or strongly suggesting the existence of various aspects of the greater-than-material reality. This course examines studies and data that are drawn from such diverse sources as: neurotheology; psychic phemonena
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- Why Settle for Less Than Perfect Happiness: Addressing Suffering At Its Root One of the longstanding questions of believers in God, particularly in the Judeo-Christian tradition, is "If God is all-good, how could God create a universe that contains evil or in which people suffer?
- What are the needs among Christian believers that you think Buddhism is addressing?
- Are Gods Creatures Perfect?
