Christ likely knew this.
Required to stop a crowd from stoning someone for a sin they are likely guilty of turning up themselves through action and inaction.
Then nailed to a cross.
Less suffering is possible. Christ and God have potential to use miracles, choose not to on a common basis – at least from what I can tell.
The experience, the life experience is insufficient suffering out, one might pray for less suffering for all does not equate to God of infinite power and miracles delivers always or perhaps even usually.
People that see that the default setting for this world is pain and suffering might be more likely to try and decrease suffering, reduce sadism, make choices in ways that lead to peace and prosperity for all parties.
Suffering is IBD, in by design, in by default. IBD is consequential.
Imagine there are two groups of people.
One group taught “without sin cast the first stone”. They are taught they are all less than perfection, less than ideal shit out. Basically they are taught to fully appreciate they are LTISO – less than ideal sin out, LTICN – less than ideal comprehension in.
They are brought an adulterer. They know they are LTISO and LTICN thus stoning someone else for being LTISO and LTICN is wrong, a poor use of physics, not full appreciation for power in non violence. They know themselves not to be better, different than the person accused, used as focus grabber away from others LTISO and LTICN.
Now imagine another group. Not taught that. They stone the person for adultery knowing they have committed same and worse sins for themselves. They see the writing on the wall, the consequential nature of a society that does not forgive, does not forget.
Now imagine people from the second group are brought on trial in front of the first group. The group that knows themselves to be LTISO and LTICN. Will this group that knows they shouldn’t judge, not judge those that have judged others harshly before, in ways that have lead to loss of life? If the group wanted to persecute the ones from the second group, would someone from the crowd that is LTISO and LTICN remind others that they themselves are LTISO and LTICN.
Judging others, assessing others in a LTISO and LTICN world is not ideal suffering reduced. Claim it will be is unwise.
One man with a PhD thinks about weighing in on an issue. Before he can speak he is reminded by a man with 2 PhDs that visibility and comprehension is less than ideal. Capacity to add value does not always equate to capacity to add value. While PhDs are valuable, PhDs on their own, that are delivered and approved by people that are LTISO and LTICN, do not give a sky level view by default. The man writing this doesn’t even have one PhD.
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