(April 21, 2017 at 8:53 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(April 21, 2017 at 12:35 am)Grandizer Wrote: Forget perfect.
Our God grieves and suffers with us in our darkest hours. As far as I'm concerned any God that is powerful enough to raise the dead is sufficiently capable of releasing me from my personal shame and despair. That is why I trust Him with my life. I love Him because He loved me first.
I don't know that there is a God and that he grieves and suffers with us in our darkest hours. If there is a God who loves us, then I would expect him to demonstrate this love in a manner that is consistent with how we normally view love. I cannot reasonably consider it divine love when God allows all sorts of evils and sufferings to occur in this world. I can understand minor sufferings being consistent with a loving God, but not major evils and sufferings.
