(April 22, 2011 at 5:12 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(April 21, 2011 at 6:59 pm)FaithNoMore Wrote: Why couldn't god foresee this suffering and come up with a different plan? The way you make it sound is that there are physical laws that even god must abide by. If he is god, he could just change the laws. If god is capable of stopping the suffering but doesn't then he is responsible. I know that some people believe that suffering is god's way of testing and bringing about enlightenment, but then why the varying degrees of suffering? Why would god test some more than others?God doesn't have to follow those laws. God arranged it that way and sits directing it like the pilot flying Moya in Farscape. God could have physically constructed another cosmos with no suffering. All we know is that this isn't it.
Suffering does lead to empathy; perspective. The natural laws are indiscriminate. It's what makes our world go around.
so you're saying frodo that you believe god knowingly made the universe the way it is, WITH the suffering of so many people? and that makes it ok? because thats just the way it is?
man what a shit outlook. don't you think it's your right to question this? surely by god giving you freedom of thought you are entitled to be outraged by such suffering?
