Pain and prayer
Why do we pray for people who are experiencing pain? And why do people experience pain in this world if God is such a wonderful God? Isn't it better for God to save people from pain without the experience of it? Here is my attempt to answer those questions from the Christian perspective. We will start, "in the beginning..." In Genesis, scripture says that God did originally design existence without pain and evil, but like the Matrix, man would not "accept the program" as the agent says in the movie. The story of Adam and Eve is that story. Man eats from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. "Whole batches," they say in the matrix, "were LOST." Lost to an existence that was unaware of spiritual life. The "revised" rules of the universe were set up in collaboration with man. Man did not want utopia. So God set the rules up that way, out of respect for man's wishes and with the input of man's relationsh...