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Plurality of existences knocks down religious paradoxes.

Let us think of the following instance: in spite all her virtuous efforts, a very good-hearted mother was not successful to avoid that her imperfect son become himself a terrible criminal. But even though the wrong way he choose, that she was not able to hinder, she still loves him very much.

After the end of a whole life dedicated to virtue, she went to Heaven. On the other hand, her son went to Hell, after the end of a life dedicated to evil.

As she lives in the paradise, the mother is supposed to be happy, but she is not. How could a good mother feel herself happy, even living in Heaven, while she knows that her beloved son is "burning in the neverending Hell's flames", with no possibilty of being pardoned? What kind of selfish happiness is she resorted to feel? Should a good-hearted mother disregard her son's torments in order to feel herself 'joyful'?

As this case shows, if there was only one existence, God would not be neither just nor good because He would be punishing - forever - an innocent mother's heart on account of the evil that she is not liable for.

This apparent contradiction disappears when we acept the plurality of existences. Quite different would be the mother's feelings: although the anguish she suffers due to her son's present misfortune, she knows that such a trial is not the God's last word. She also knows that her son may correct his errors, through exercising his own free-will in a new incarnation, in order to achieve his own happiness. This hope gives her a sweet consolation, specially because, depending on God's will, she may be allowed to reincarnate together with him again.

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