These questions about God elicit a great deal of emotion, but have no emotionally satisfying answer. If God is good, why is there so much pain and suffering in the world...? If God is omnipotent, why wouldn’t He eliminate this pain and suffering...? If God is loving, why wouldn’t He eliminate this pain and suffering...?
These are tough questions. How do we answer them, or ‘deal’ with them, or process them...? Some here have personally experienced these kinds of things firsthand. Others, a little more distantly, and others have no experience with these kinds of things at all...other than hearing or reading about them. Regardless, does one have to first arrive at some personal conclusions in order to answer them, or ‘deal’ with them, or process them...?
Would you not as a parent protect your children from harm if possible? Suffering, to a point, can build character, but the level of suffering in the world goes way beyond character building hardship.
