Why do humans struggle?

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Why is it that we can’t simply accept the law that is written upon our hearts?
 
TheSupplanter said:
Why is it that we can’t simply accept the law that is written upon our hearts?
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Because we were also blessed with reason and a mind that, although sometimes too smart for its own good, keeps us asking questions and finding alternative solutions to our problems.
 
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Because we were also blessed with reason and a mind that, although sometimes too smart for its own good, keeps us asking questions and finding alternative solutions to our problems.
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I keep asking questions that make me go :banghead:
I do not know how to stop…
 
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I personally think that’s a good thing even if it’s sometimes disturbing to us. As Socrates said: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
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I agree, it’s just that I am over examining. That is problematic for being waaaay too disturbing. Like information overload…
 
Psalm 45 sheds some light and perspective.

“Be still and see that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, and I will be exalted in the earth. The Lord of armies is with us: the God of Jacob is our protector.”
 
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We suffer from original sin. And God needs to test us to see if we are sincere. This makes life a battle which won’t end until our last breath. Never give up, God is always there for us. Linus2nd
 
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the malice and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, cast into Hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who roam through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
 
We are fallible we are not perfect. Only God is.

Its important to remember that we are constantly being put to the test. The evil one will always try to lead us away and bring us into temptation.

The purpose of our lives ’ in this life’ is to choose the right road or the wrong. The wide road or the narrow.
We are continually placed in situations where we have to make choices. While we are considering our choices the evil one tries to tempt us away to the wrong road,the easy route,the wide road. The narrow one is narrow and difficult to get to.

Matthew 7:13 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.

Matthew 7:14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Luke 13:24 "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

How we live our lives here on earth determines our eternal salvation.

Jesus told us to love God and to Love our neighbour with our whole hearts.

The Two Commandments of Love
  1. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
  2. You shall love your neighbour as yourself.
When we daily strive to achieve these commandments we are choosing the right road or the wrong road. We will fail many many times to live to up to the commandments but the very fact we keep sincerely trying is what our faith is.

God bless
 
Linusthe2nd said:
We suffer from original sin. And God needs to test us to see if we are sincere. This makes life a battle which won’t end until our last breath. Never give up, God is always there for us. Linus2nd
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I don’t doubt for a second that G-d is there for us, for me. I don’t doubt that I should never give up. But I could really use a psychological break. I wouldn’t leave Him for having that respite.
G-d knows I am sincere, and yes, He should test me often, not that He has doubt. While my perception of my issues seem like bombardment, they are bombardment when there is little to no recovery in between attacks of “struggles.” (I don’t really like the word; do not know why.)
All Shall Be Well one day. I cannot help but feel that one day could be in this life as a mere glimpse of the Life ever after. I really don’t want to hurt all the time. I do. Right now especially.
It sucks. I do not think this to be my cross, I don’t think He wants me to be in this amount of pain, though He will, and does, make good use of it, I am sure. That I don’t know how is not necessary to know. But I sure am curious…
 
I believe we are living in Hell, with different levels of torment…LOVE, not money. Is the key to salvation.
 
Because we inherit concupiscence from our first parents (Adam and Eve, be they literal people or a metaphor for the first people to fall into the guilt of sin). When parents have children they reproduce, we are all then in a sense unique reproductions of those who have come before us and their sins give us a inclination toward sin. Thus we all struggle to be good and to obey the law written on our hearts because we have all been sinners since birth (cf. Ps 51:5).

What a wretched creature man is, who first perverts God’s good creation and then his children sin constantly by their perverted nature! Yet it is the cause of our hope and joy that while we were still enemies of God, He came to us Himself in the Son to live and die for us (cf. Rom 5:10), redeeming us from sin (cf. Heb 9:14-15) and sending us His Spirit (cf. Acts 2) offering us restoration of goodness (cf. Acts 3:19) and the hope of eternal life with Him (cf. John 3:16)

Glory be…
 
MattofTexas said:
Because we inherit concupiscence from our first parents (Adam and Eve, be they literal people or a metaphor for the first people to fall into the guilt of sin). When parents have children they reproduce, we are all then in a sense unique reproductions of those who have come before us and their sins give us a inclination toward sin. Thus we all struggle to be good and to obey the law written on our hearts because we have all been sinners since birth (cf. Ps 51:5).

What a wretched creature man is, who first perverts God’s good creation and then his children sin constantly by their perverted nature! Yet it is the cause of our hope and joy that while we were still enemies of God, He came to us Himself in the Son to live and die for us (cf. Rom 5:10), redeeming us from sin (cf. Heb 9:14-15) and sending us His Spirit (cf. Acts 2) offering us restoration of goodness (cf. Acts 3:19) and the hope of eternal life with Him (cf. John 3:16)

Glory be…
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I do not believe we were “enemies of G-d” or have a “perverted nature.” We were fashioned in the image and likeness of G-d Himself.
 
meltzerboy said:
I do not believe we were “enemies of G-d” or have a “perverted nature.” We were fashioned in the image and likeness of G-d Himself.
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But why do we live in a world with so many levels of torment? There’s so much pain and suffering in this world that it resembles the notion of Hell. LOVE is the key to salvation.
 
Robert_Sock said:
But why do we live in a world with so many levels of torment? There’s so much pain and suffering in this world that it resembles the notion of Hell. LOVE is the key to salvation.
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As a Catholic Christian, you should know the answer to this question better than I. Suffering is the key to redemption, is it not, according to Christian theology?
 
meltzerboy said:
As a Catholic Christian, you should know the answer to this question better than I. Suffering is the key to redemption, is it not, according to Christian theology?
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Maybe the questions are “Why must it be so over the top all the time?” “Why must it be so over the top that one can only think of how to make it stop?” That’s not serving Him very well.
 
meltzerboy said:
As a Catholic Christian, you should know the answer to this question better than I. Suffering is the key to redemption, is it not, according to Christian theology?
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In this world, it’s LOVE that is the true key to Heaven. The pain and suffering is just a means to the end. CHOOSE LOVE!
 
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