A therapist asked Eckhart why God allows this much suffering | Eckhart Tolle
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A therapist stands up with a question she has been carrying out of her sessions. Earlier in the week Eckhart Tolle told a story about a man who finishes dinner and goes looking for the chef. She has questions for the chef. Why did you make this? Why does one person get a gourmet plate and another a rotten one? She admits, if she is honest, to some resentment. Eckhart's first answer is that the question is justified, and so is the resentment. Then he lays out where the argument usually goes. If there were a God, he could not allow this. If I were God, I would not allow this, which makes me morally superior to any God, which means there is no God. Or there is a God and he is malevolent. In the early Christian centuries the Gnostics took that route and concluded that the world was made by a lesser, flawed creator. Others blamed a devil. Others concluded the universe is random. He thinks none of these are correct, and that they all share one starting point: the assumption that God is a controlling figure somewhere who makes things happen or allows things he could prevent. Either he uses that power to torture people or he declines to use it, and neither is a God anyone would want. The traditional argument against God, he says, is an argument against that figure. And that figure, in his view, was a misconception of what the word means in the first place. If you work with suffering, or are living with it, please have somewhere to put it down. This is a talk about a question, not a substitute for support. Eckhart goes much further into this in the full session. Join Eckhart Tolle Now to watch. 👇
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