123 Saying Goodbye to a Thanos Theology

Are we humans about to be bailed out of this mess of a world, or is our responsibility to fix it? I used to think we'd be raptured and Jesus would fix it instantly. But lately, I've concluded God gave us the authority and the power to redeem the earth ourselves, and we're in it for the long haul.
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[@ludlowblack]

Hey, I really appreciate your perspective on this particular topic. Just tonight I was at a reconstruction class with my church, and I realized that I was having a hard time believing in God as good because of the way humans have been seemingly created to struggle, wreaking havoc and harm. The progress toward improvement seems trudgingly slow. How can I think of God as good if we have been left in this absolute mess? At the same time, though, I can't deny the presence of a strong force of good in, if not always in humans, then at least in nature... Where does that come from? "No God" or "an evil God" just feel like hollow answers... Anyway, all that to say, your struggle with this dissonance spoke to me, and helped me feel less alone. Thank you so much for sharing

[@CrucibleOfThought]

My evangelical upbringing didn't give me the tools to really wrestle with this topic - aside from trying really hard to ignore it in the name of faithfulness. Now I'm discovering that I'm not the only one. For all the evils of social media, I think its ability to help us discover that we're not the only ones to wrestle with something is one of its great goodnesses. I'm glad I could help.

[@emje8707]

Humans are immoral because god made humans with free will out of his love which can go beyond our understanding and humans can accept and love or reject god -free will which is a gift -allows genuine love and moral choices but also opens the possibility of choosing evil. All humans have to work with god to be healed communion with god and working out our salvation in synergy with god heals us atheism leads us astray from that

[@emje8707]

And god is not the source of evil as evil is not an independent force created by him but it's the privation of good it's a lack of good . suffering is an opportunity to grow in faith, develop virtues, and draw closer to God .our goal is to be in communion with the creator now and forever