In various religions and belief systems, people talk about contracts made with god before birth. How as a spirit before birth we pick our parents, our nationality. Everything that happens in our lives we have chosen before birth and then we live out these choices, like a journey rigidly planned on a map before setting off.
We come here to learn these life lessons, some would say life is a school.
How do you feel about this?
My feelings are simple. Would a loving god really let us enter into this world full of pain, heartache, in some cases war and starvation? Does that sound like a lesson your soul would choose to learn?
Also in churches and holy books we are told “ask and you shall receive”. Unfortunately it seems a great deal of asking is done but the package is never received. Leonard Cohen sang about “A million candles burning for the help that never came”.
We seem to want to shun our own responsibilities for all that happens in our lives on Earth, and give god an excuse for inaction.
If on the other hand god gave us free choice with no prearranged contracts, we live our lives on a daily basis making choices for ourselves (although hopefully we are making good choices, benefiting ourselves and helping others who need a hand). No lessons, just doing our best every day and taking responsibility for these choices. Would our being here not make a great deal more sense?
It seems like an attempt to avoid real responsibility for our lives. Falling back on some prewritten contract, where we lose all freewill.
Or we accept that we do have and always did have freewill and deal with it as best we can.
What are your thoughts on this matter?