Yes, when I'm reading the Bible I'm seeing how much freewill has separated me from the Divine and handed me to the Devil. Similar etymology Divine and Devil but the key is that there is One that has created and the other that has redefined what has already been created.
There is no reason to assume that God doesn't want us to be wealthy, happy and healthy. Instead we are presented with "evidence" that God is cruel because of this static snapshot of bad or that story of hopelessness.
Why would Jesus raise Lazarus? He did so because other people cared about him. Why would Jesus tell an Apostle to go fishing and find a few silver coins to pay tax out of a fish's mouth? Because we don't need to stress over the minutiae of secular life.
Why also would believers be slain? Because this is not the place or destination. This is the boat. This is the training ground.
Thinking that I'm clever, smart or that I've done some great work to achieve success is foreign now in my mind. I've done nothing. If anything, it has been incremental and very, very small. My best thinking has destroyed years of good works. It's not my best thinking at all.
I owe everything to God because it is already his. My job is to show that made in His image I can show Him that His work is good and appreciated.
Imagine, if you will, that you've made something from yourself and it has been always making you feel good. This thing will be cultivated and cared for. Imagine also this thing has given you much trouble but you are invested in this thing's success, you will give this thing every opportunity to grow.
Imagine this thing has become perverted and corrupt. You will cull the diseased herd and separate it from the healthy. Time and time again this has and will happen again.
We are here to participate in the next great work. This work is coming to a close. The next great work is joy. All who accept it will participate in the building. All who reject it will be returned to the great dissatisfaction which can never be quenched. Hell is the base building material of free will disembodied and unable to do anything.
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