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Douglas Geivett said, “A great deal of responsibility for suffering or for evil generally in the world today is rooted in how we exercise the freedom we have.” What are evidences you have seen of the connection between the freedom to choose and human suffering?
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Throughout my life I was taught about the Bible but chose drugs chose violence, chose gang affiliation, chose sexual immortality, chose theft,chose hate,chose evil. These choices (and many more) led me on a life of hate suffering filth, loss of freedom, and what seemed like eternal sadness despair. Thank God I still live recognize my self destruction and choose to ask Jesus for forgiveness and establish a personal relationship with him do my best to travel through life as a child of CHRIST. Being a believer hasn’t taken away suffering. Pain and suffering gives me more reasons to cry out to our LORD have faith in his Devine existence and receive his strength to deal with difficult situations in life and thank him for the situations that strengthen my faith in CHRIST…
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As a teacher I often share with my course that all of our actions have consequences. Even young children can see this in their everyday lives. In third grade if you choose to study your spelling words you will be prepared for the test and most likely do well. The other option is to not study and possibly get a bad grade. That concept can be expanded in so many more ways. In our marriages we can choose to follow God’s instructions for marriage or suffer though a difficult relationship for many years due to our choice to follow our own ways.
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I see the connection between the freedom to choose and human suffering when I see children suffer because of bad choices of parents or people suffer because of bad choices of government
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As a high school teacher, I hear students say that they should be able to do what they want because it’s their life. It is my job to demonstrate to them how their every decision can affect others. It can be something as simple as gossip hurting someones feelings to drunk driving taking someone’s life. Our behavior good and bad affects others.
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We have the freedom to be in gods image but we choose to defy leading to bad choices which leads us away from the path of god