09-27-2021, 06:57 AM
I tend to think that school is a good symbol for what we do here. As some used to say, we are in "reigning training" -- we shall reign with Him after this. I suppose we will never really understand the whole picture of why we are here in this world, but there are numerous parables that indicate various aspects of the question. You can also view this life as a prison, and we have to serve our time, for example. It's not as if wonderful things don't happen here, but being here is far from the ideal of Eden. It's not what we were made for.
CS Lewis approached the question in his Narnia series. In one of the books, he proposes the parable of The Song. There is an audience out there that we can sense, but cannot grasp. Something happened in Heaven that went wrong, and God had to judge things. God Created the world as a demonstration/explanation for His judgment. That we fell was no surprise to Him, and He had a plan for that. How some of us come through and join Him in Heaven is the demonstration of His justice. Not the fact itself that we join Him, but how we pass through this life is the point.
There can be no orthodox answer to such a question.
CS Lewis approached the question in his Narnia series. In one of the books, he proposes the parable of The Song. There is an audience out there that we can sense, but cannot grasp. Something happened in Heaven that went wrong, and God had to judge things. God Created the world as a demonstration/explanation for His judgment. That we fell was no surprise to Him, and He had a plan for that. How some of us come through and join Him in Heaven is the demonstration of His justice. Not the fact itself that we join Him, but how we pass through this life is the point.
There can be no orthodox answer to such a question.