(November 1, 2013 at 11:15 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote:(November 1, 2013 at 6:29 pm)GodsRevolt Wrote: God does not wish for suffering to happen
No, he just doesn't seem to care that people are starving in areas of the world where food doesn't grow or that people get painful, incurable diseases.
Doesn't care?
He said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Matthew 5 - The Beatitudes
It sounds to me like he holds those people in the highest regards.
". . . let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist." -G. K. Chesterton