Right, because God only cares about the spiritual and does not care one iota about the temporal.
Somehow people are to survive this life in a state of grace without any temporal help.
More like verse 18.
So clearly his actions are contingent on us following his commands. Perfectly. Yes, we get forgiven in confession, but who cares about that when the temporal punishment in Deut 28:18 still happens. Slap slap slap, bad boy, now you can’t have kids. Who cares if you repent and go to confession, you’re still punished.
There appears to be no way to get ALL temporal punishments obliterated. Even indulgences are not working.
So God does not give pleasant things to good people, he only gives it to evil people and then says “SIKE! You’re going to hell!” at judgment day.
This is why we must be perfect, because we will get spanked here. Guaranteed.
We will get the temporal punishments guaranteed, but temporal blessings optional, not needed - at least God thinks they’re not needed.
Yup. God demands for us to do what he does not want to do. Take care of temporal problems, somehow, without him helping us temporally since he has zero obligation or willingness to help in that area. God does not care about the temporal needs of his people.
Somehow we must figure out how to get past this life, while in a state of grace, without any temporal help from above.
Ask for a fish, get a rock. Ask for bread, get a scorpion instead.
In this one area, God and the devil have something in common: Not caring about us. The devil doesn’t care about our temporal needs, and neither does God.
So, how is this loving?
Nothing is uncertain for God.
contingent: dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain (
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Baptized newborns have no personal sin nor the stain of original sin, and yet experience various sufferings. These are not temporal punishments for sin as the Church teaches that temporal punishment follows from a persons sin.
Catechism
324 The fact that God permits physical and even moral evil is a mystery that God illuminates by his Son Jesus Christ who died and rose to vanquish evil. Faith gives us the certainty that God would not permit an evil if he did not cause a good to come from that very evil, by ways that we shall fully know only in eternal life.
310 But why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it? With infinite power God could always create something better.174 But with infinite wisdom and goodness God freely willed to create a world “in a state of journeying” towards its ultimate perfection. In God’s plan this process of becoming involves the appearance of certain beings and the disappearance of others, the existence of the more perfect alongside the less perfect, both constructive and destructive forces of nature. With physical good there exists also physical evil as long as creation has not reached perfection.175
We do ask definitely for those things which are contained in the petitions of the Lord’s Prayer. St. Thomas Aquinas writes in Summa Theologica, Second Part of the Second Part, Question 8 Prayer, Article 6. Whether man ought to ask God for temporal things when he prays?:
On the contrary, It is written (Proverbs 30:8): “Give me only the necessaries of life.”
I answer that, As Augustine says (ad Probam, de orando Deum, Ep. cxxx, 12): “It is lawful to pray for what it is lawful to desire.” Now it is lawful to desire temporal things, not indeed principally, by placing our end therein, but as helps whereby we are assisted in tending towards beatitude, in so far, to wit, as they are the means of supporting the life of the body, and are of service to us as instruments in performing acts of virtue, as also the Philosopher states (Ethic. i, 8). Augustine too says the same to Proba (ad Probam, de orando Deum, Ep. cxxx, 6,7) when he states that “it is not unbecoming for anyone to desire enough for a livelihood, and no more; for this sufficiency is desired, not for its own sake, but for the welfare of the body, or that we should desire to be clothed in a way befitting one’s station, so as not to be out of keeping with those among whom we have to live. Accordingly we ought to pray that we may keep these things if we have them, and if we have them not, that we may gain possession of them.”