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Originally Posted by Fran27
That's what I will NEVER understand with religion. Everything is God's way, and His plan, but not what brings pain? What about the saying that God will only make you go through what He knows you can deal with? (or whatever the exact saying is...).
It's so paradoxical...
Anyway...
I don't go with the 'meant to be' stuff either. Just because whatever way you look at it, in the grand scheme of things, chance, God, or whatever, if something happens, it's that it was meant to be. So it's just redundant to say something was meant to be... Same way as if something didn't happen, it wasn't meant to be. Duh.
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The problem of course is people will always argue about what God's plan means. I personally to NOT believe that God micromanages our lives. We are not puppets. There is a sense in which God's "Laws" are a fence: if we stay within the boundaries we are safe (at least mostly, as long as everyone else does too.) Often our problems are of our own making... such as my getting pregnant while a college student. I do believe that God is with us and can provide wisdom and strength -- if we seek it. I face choices, each and every day. It is my decision whether I'm going to choose God's way or not.