What is God porpuse in creating too many souls exposing them only to Good and devil?

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I mean that Love (Agape) becomes the root of our every action. The desire for the highest moral good both for ourselves and or others around us. Read the Gospels and see how Jesus humbles himself. He says that He came to serve, not be served. He says that the one who would be the greatest must be the servant of the others. He tells us that it is by our Love for one another that the world will know that we are His.

To an extent - yes. We lose parts of our “self” that are contrary to God’s will for us. We seek to be more and more united with Him

We Give Love and we receive Love - we do not “take” love. Both the giving and the receiving is a gift given, not taken. This is a subtle but important distinction.

As far as immersion and the timeless aspect goes…Consider how you are immersed in the atmosphere…you breath in - you breath out…you receive air - you give air - you are immersed in air and the air fills you. You don’t even think about it most of the time…
This is how it is in the Kingdom. Immersed in Love - giving and receiving Love - outside of thought or time…

There is no need of curiosity when every answer is present and every true desire of the Loving soul is satisfied. St Paul says that now we see as through a glass darkly…but then we will see clearly.

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James
No offence, but all these nice pictures I could imagine myself without needing a revelation. The fact that you accept this picture means that you are able to imagine such a fancy picture in the same time this picture please you. You however didn’t answer my main question: why we have to suffer to reach to that point in which God reveals everything to us, most importantly answers our questions.
 
No offence, but all these nice pictures I could imagine myself without needing a revelation. The fact that you accept this picture means that you are able to imagine such a fancy picture in the same time this picture please you.
No offense taken.
What you call “fancy pictures” are simply ways to explain things that are difficult to explain in other ways. Jesus Himself used such images throughout the Gospels.

Question - How do you know that your ability to imagine these things isn’t a revelation in its self?
You however didn’t answer my main question: why we have to suffer to reach to that point in which God reveals everything to us, most importantly answers our questions.
I just reviewed our entire conversation here - including your opening post and your thread title and I don’t see “why do we have to suffer” asked anywhere. I see you asking - why so many souls and asking about why we are exposed to good and evil…but nothing about why we suffer…
I don’t mean to be difficult here…but really - we can only try to answer the questions that are asked.
The issue of why we suffer is a complex one. Below is a response to one type of suffering which ties back to your earlier references to our gaining knowledge of good and evil.
You ask…
why we have to suffer to reach to that point in which God reveals everything to us, most importantly answers our questions.
in response I would suggest two things…
First, that God does not require our suffering in order to answer our questions…It’s just that it seems we listen better when things are going wrong.
Second, we tend to ask more questions when things are going wrong than when they are going right. There is an old adage that we learn more from our mistakes. A similar one - in the military is that one learns more from defeat than from victory.

Free Will means that we will make both right and wrong choices in our lives. Such is inevitable. These choices carry consequences. The consequences of wrong choices are often painful - hence suffering.
It is at this point that many people will say, “Dear God why…” whereas when all seems to be going along just fine, one does not ask God “why”…
So - the bottom line answer to your question here is two-fold -
  1. We often times don’t ask God questions until we are suffering and
  2. We often times are not listening as well when things are going well…Oh and a third reason…
  3. We generally learn better from hard experience…
I’m sure this doesn’t completely answer your question…but I hope it helps some…

Peace
James
 
No offense taken.
What you call “fancy pictures” are simply ways to explain things that are difficult to explain in other ways. Jesus Himself used such images throughout the Gospels.

Question - How do you know that your ability to imagine these things isn’t a revelation in its self?
First, it is difficult to define what imagination is. To my understanding, imagination is a property of self. It is the result of creativity of self which gives rise to a new concept or idea. I don’t know about how the self functions when we are dealing with a puzzling situation, but I know that creativity is its outcome once enough amount of knowledge are accumulated. I personally don’t believe in revelation which obviously contradict with our state of being which is full of paradox. If God is love and he has knowledge of everything, why we should be in such state of ignorance toward absolute truth.

The very fact that tremendous amount of work was performed by God to create each self means that our spiritual journey toward God will be eventually unique once we reach to higher state of maturity.
 
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