It's the failure to understand that makes you think of the grand design as 'arbitrary'. What do we know, when we say an action or result is good or bad? Only our limited vision. Our limited definition of good and bad - of time - of actions and results as a concept.
[The theology of it is easy. The other part, not so much. He understands House's anger and defiance. It compels and repulses him in equal measure.]
I don't know who deserves what. But if God is the reason - the alpha and the omega - then whatever his reasons are, they are the only ones that matter. He owes us nothing. He can give up on me, or you, or anyone he deems deserving, and we will be deserving by default. That is the point. To believe that there is a true answer - a true purpose - even if we will never know it, even if for us it means nothing but suffering. Because it still is. A truth that makes everything just.
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Date: 2016-12-08 07:23 pm (UTC)[The theology of it is easy. The other part, not so much. He understands House's anger and defiance. It compels and repulses him in equal measure.]
I don't know who deserves what. But if God is the reason - the alpha and the omega - then whatever his reasons are, they are the only ones that matter. He owes us nothing. He can give up on me, or you, or anyone he deems deserving, and we will be deserving by default. That is the point. To believe that there is a true answer - a true purpose - even if we will never know it, even if for us it means nothing but suffering. Because it still is. A truth that makes everything just.