I study scripture. Earlier today I ask some questions of my higher power, mostly about what Laura raises and related to suffering and the seeming absence of God in that. Of course, this ultimately relates to the suffering of Christ on the cross and I have always had an issue as to why he was allowed to suffer so much. The answer is that it was preordained and prophesied, and related to the Old Testament atonement for of a blood sacrifice. I read the teachings of St Augustus and Thomas Aquinas who also asked the same question, ie was there another way? I am still not convinced there wasn’t another way but he was six hours on the cross and I thought it was longer. For those who don’t keep religion, my apologies for writing about it. I am someone who in life has always been a seeker of truth, so I would quite like an answer to some of these questions. I feel like I am getting some answers, not all. Well, in the middle of all my reading, I am invited out for coffee by the Jehovah’s Witness on Friday so I agree to go. I am interested in people’s perspectives on all of this.
