PratchettFan
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Since I just thanked someone who doesn't share my beliefs I guess that sort of kills your whole theory of me "rejecting other answers because they did not fit my beliefs".
But keep thinking you actually answered anything.
Actually, that poster chose one of your three options - which you believe to be the only possible options. Any suggestion that other options might exist you have rejected out of hand - solely because they are not one of your three.
So tell me what options I left off. Let me guess
D) We aren't meant to understand Gods motives
Right?
Ok. Life is an illusion. We experience pain and pleasure, suffering and joy, for the purpose of understanding the nature of our being. But all of that is purely transitory. You cannot understand joy unless you have experienced suffering. You cannot understand the essence of what you are unless you have experienced all facets of that essence. Thus the baby dying in pain receives an insight into that essence which it would not othewise have recieved. It dies in this manner because it needs that experience in order to move on to a greater understanding of existence. Consider life as a school and you tend to learn more in the hard classes than the easy ones.
I hold that out not as a particular belief, but as another option outside of the ones you have listed. I could provide you with others if you please. And, of course, that is all predicated upon the notion that the options are limted to ones we can think up. Which is itself an absurd idea based on the philosophy that humans are omniscient.
Your irrationality is that you think you have an understanding of the subject matter when, in fact, you are as blind ignorant as the rest of us. You have not the slightest idea of what is going on or even if anything is going on. The example you use is not one to illiict logical discourse but to engage emotion and is directed to a very specific concept of a deity which you fail to support beyond your insistence that it is the only possibility to consider. You are a believer and you are reacting to heretics.