Is there is rational argument against the existence of a good and loving God…the God presented to us by Jesus in the New Testament…based on pain and suffering and injustice in the world…?
I understand that it’s an emotional argument, and when many of us hear people make it, especially based on their own personal pain and suffering and injustice, many of us get it. Many of us understand it. How could a good God allow that…? How could a loving God allow that…? How could a just God allow that…? Many of us totally get that. I think that many of us have enough compassion and empathy to be able to insert into someone else’s question and their hurt. But past the emotion and past the incident, is there a rational argument to be made against the existence of a good and loving God…the God presented to us by Jesus in the New Testament…?
Has Christianity ever made the argument for the existence of a good and loving God…the God presented to us by Jesus in the New Testament…based on a world where bad things never happen to good people…? Has Christianity ever made that argument…? Has Christianity ever taught that position…? Specifically, does the New Testament make that argument, or teach that position…?
Does the whole idea of throwing up all of the pain and suffering and injustice in the world in God’s face to somehow say that a good and loving God…the God presented to us by Jesus in the New Testament…doesn’t exist, even hold water…?
It’s clearly emotional. It’s clearly powerful. It’s clearly moving. But is it rational…based upon the teachings of Jesus and others in the New Testament…?
