God would not allow me to suffer
God does not want you to suffer. He wants you to come to Him but He will not force you. You have a choice to go to God or enjoy here without Him. We reap what we sow, why to blame God for my behavior. You touch fire, you get burnt why is God responsible? We have to take responsibility for actions.
God will not arrange for suffering unless He hates me
God does not hate or like. He is impartial to all. He rewards us as we approach Him. We can approach Him in a favorable way or unfavorable way. Regardless, He arranges according to our propensity. Yes, God created this world with laws. For example, God created fire to burn but we play with fire and get burnt. Is God the reason for my burn because He created fire to burn or my irresponsibility I play with fire? Similarly we are inherently spiritual by nature but we want material happiness (nonconforming). God created this material world with laws because we want to enjoy here. But laws come with dos and donts. We ignore it and get burnt. So yes God arranged for us the cosmos with the laws but we misuse and get burnt by the laws. God is not to be blamed for creating the laws. We have to be blamed for breaking it. It is exactly like a citizen breaking Government law and is punished by the Justice System. To blame the Government for arranging laws is childish otherwise without laws there will be chaos and no one (including the law abiders) cannot be happy. So laws are needed for a happy society and that is why we have cosmic laws. Choosing to follow it or not will result in our happiness or suffering (difference between a good citizen who is happy versus a person breaking the law who will eventually suffer in jail). So God is neutral (neither hate nor like). He reciprocates according to your desires. Basically, my point you are the architect of your destiny (good and bad),
To inflict harm and fight his own living entities because he designed the material world for us to suffer because he felt like it,Iam just not impressed by it.
Not sure how you got this idea. He did not design the world to suffer. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says this world is suffering because it is temporary ( a factor of time). That is His definition of suffering. The suffering you are referring to is because of hate towards one group and love towards another group. This intense polarity or duality is created by man and God is not the cause of this polarity. Material world is suffering from the standpoint of birth and death (time/temporary) not from the standpoint of hate and love which man has created. Hate and love is different from temporariness of this world.
I know we are all affected by karma but why would it even be possible?
Why not? Who should take responsibility for his or her actions. If you pay and hire a building contractor to repair your door and window and he does a poor job. Who will you hold responsible? Can the contractor tell you I am not responsible? Can any institution or society operate without people being accountable to one another? A social body cannot operate without laws and a governing body to enforce these laws? This is the only way we can be held accountable for our good and bad actions. This same idea exercised at the universal level is called Karma. Karma is a mechanical system to enforce the reactions for our previous actions. It is not biased or judgmental (in a negative way). It is an operating system for this world and its' inhabitants.
Why not make sure things were always perfect?, but then again, is it that God needs someone else to do bad so he can look good,another part of His design?
This world is perfect as it is from God who is perfect. When we eat properly as designed to fit the human body, then we live a long and healthy life free from disease. This can happen only if our diet is in harmony with the construct of the human body. So in that sense if the diet is perfect (harmony) with our body, there is no disease. Similarly as humans or any living being when they live in harmony with nature ( as a whole), then there will be peace and happiness. God created nature and man created industries. So we are reaping the result of this artificial economy which is based on industrialization of nations. By artificial I mean paper based currency. As a result, we have poverty and affluence. Otherwise, in God's world, everyone was rich as long as they had good food and a decent place to stay. But with influx of money we have rich getting richer (greed) and poor getting poorer. This gap or imperfection that is a result of a deeper sociological, economical and political issue is a product of man and not God. So please do not blame God for our imperfections. God is perfect, His creation is perfect, we are perfect as long as we align with God's plan to love and serve but by misusing our freedom we encroach upon other's property, draw boundaries, exploit, kill, rape and claim victory and ownership and leave the losers with scrap. This is our history and current affairs for the past 5000 years. Your complaint should be directed towards the misplaced leaders of this society and not towards God. By the way, Krishna means all-attractive He does not need to look good by making us look bad. He is Super Beautiful and Good on His own. He designed nature for us to live in harmony with it. Man's design is to exploit nature and usurp it unceremoniously (every industry and gadget and product and energy we use and invented is based on exploiting nature and people - again man made design).
Its just sounds horrible to me, we are pawns and God will throw us around as he pleases. I dont want to accept this. I dont want God to throw me around and I am not going to butter up to anything like that. That's my point, we are all pawns here,
God does not throw us around, In fact God facilitates our desires so we can be happy. This is the thanks He gets for being a perfect Gentleman. He has to facilitate not only your desire but the desire of all trillions and trillions of living entities and He has to do it such a way that there is order and not chaos and that everyone deserves what they are eligible. If you can manage even 50 high productive people in a company without politics, i will bow my hat. Why 50, we cannot even manage one person, that is why there are so many divorces. One husband and one wife cannot manage each other. This is common. It is easy to fight and destroy but to tolerate and create is very difficult. God is not an impulsive Hero like figure where like Robinhood He has to come to save damsel in distress and if He doesn't we blame Him for not caring. This sort of Super Hero mentality is childish. God is Supreme in His own right and purely He plays by His rules. It is childish to expect Him (the Supreme Controller of all beings) to cater to the whims and fancies of my mind. God is not expecting you to butter up, but it is gentlemanly of you to give back to God since your very existence such as water, light and air is provided by God. If we have little gratitude then common sense tells us that we have to serve God since without Him we cannot exist for a second.
We are inferior energy hence the suffering
Think about what I have said versus taking emotional decisions. Learn to separate God from Institutionalized religion. Perhaps you will see the light!
Hare Krishna
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