God Is Not Who You Think He Is — Transcript
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- 0:00How could God allow all this suffering?
- 0:03If and then they say there can't be any
- 0:05God because if there were God, he would
- 0:08have to be all powerful,
- 0:10omnipotent and omniscient. Therefore, he
- 0:13would if he were all powerful, he would
- 0:15not allow the suffering, but there is a
- 0:17suffering, so either he's not all
- 0:19powerful then it means he's not God or
- 0:22he's evil if he allows the suffering
- 0:24because even I wouldn't allow it if I
- 0:26were God. And so you get into all kinds
- 0:28of
- 0:30uh not realizing that you started from a
- 0:33a childish
- 0:35premise imagining God as a controlling
- 0:39patriarchal figure
- 0:42who does things. Am I going to allow
- 0:45this accident or not? Let's see.
- 0:51>> [laughter]
- 0:52>> The the suffering is the birth pangs of
- 0:55the consciousness. The suffering of
- 0:57humanity
- 0:59is the
- 1:00like almost like giving birth to a to
- 1:04this the awakening consciousness. There
- 1:05is no
- 1:07indivi- Nobody has a the life of every
- 1:10individual is the one life.
- 1:13Your life is not your life. It doesn't
- 1:16belong to you. You are not separate from
- 1:18life. There's only the one life.
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