Quote: but I don't understand why a God that is supposed to be all knowing and giving and loving would want a couple to have 10 children and drive them into the poor house, or why God would allow such a thing as his own representatives in the church to sexually abuse children, or have sex with women who are members of the church, then they church transfers the priest when they become pregnant
I don't claim to be an expert on God, but this is what I believe:
God gave humans free will. It is the illicit use of free will that perpetuates human suffering, not God's rules for living.
Our relationship to God is much like the relationship that a child has with his father. When the child goes astray, it hurts the father to have to correct his offspring. It hurts the offspring to be corrected. It may appear that people are getting away with evil, but they get corrected on the same basis as everyone else. It's just that correction takes place in God's time, not ours. We are here to learn the lessons of spirituality so that we may live an everlasting life with our Lord. Everyone struggles with their human nature, some more than others.
I don't mind the sun sometime
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
And smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and Sugar
And softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through someone elses eyes
BHS-"Pepper"
