/lit/ - Literature

If God is real then why doesn't he seem to ever reward his believers with benefits in this world, why is the reward always deferred to the next world? God has made man composed of spirit and flesh, so why does Paul say we should give no attention to what the flesh wants? Isn't that an essential part of being human? Why is the flesh at war with the spirit as Paul says if man is composed of both, did God design man to be made of two parts that are at war with eachother like a sadist? Why does God create man with the natural desire for comfort, material resources, companionship and then require him to endure hardship, poverty and loneliness? Wouldn't God send some kind of actual tangible this-worldly signal that a person like this is doing something right instead of requiring him to believe strictly based on a metaphysical promise when his life is disintegrating in front of him? Especially when those who seem entirely unconcerned with God seem to do a better job leading a fulfilling lifestyle, you don't see them being mired in depression, poverty, suffering, or social isolation. But God throughout history never seems to show interest in ever doing anything about it in this world on either side of the equation. If anything the correlation between a fulfilling life in this world and belief in God seems inverse. But if God is the designer of both the world and its inhabitants, how can this inverse correlation exist? That means either God is indifferent, or he lacks authority over this world, or has screwed up the design or he is merely sitting back while people are being saved or damned and neither of those groups even know that they're doing something right or wrong, because there appears to be no signal that would suggest it. Evil people can lead lives totally at peace with themselves in abundance until their death and the good can be destroyed by suffering until their life, consisting mostly of distress comes to an end. But there seems to be total indifference and silence from God about either of these situations in this world, as if God was foreign to his own creation. It's only ever about the next world and the requirement is to believe that in the next one all will be better and that one should forget entirely about the actual tangible one he or she is presently experiencing, the only one a human has ever known to actually exist. I guess if God is indeed real, the creator of the world and in authority over the world, then I just don't understand the constant deferral. You can say "free will". But why does the exercise of free will according to God's law in the world he has created lead to suffering? And the solution to that is that we should forget about this world and just wait for world 2.0. Doesn't that suggest something is a little off? I guess it's a part of the whole thing I just don't understand.

Which book of the Bible is most /lit/ and why?