The problem of evil revisited.

[Mystic]

It's really built up my character knowing that millions of children have died of starvation.
Now I don't waste food as much. Thanks god.

God didn't set up the system that millions of children ought to be starving. We have enough resources to feed them. This is our own doing. We also set up a system in which third world countries don't have much of a chance. But again, this us doing it. Not God.

The alternative would be for God to nanny us when we get things wrong. But that world, our own moral responsibility would not be there as much, and we would expect God to do all sorts of things for us. A world where he interferes contradicts the design of the world for character building.

However that said. The suffering will be trivial to infinite bliss, so the character building is worth it.

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Yep, insisting that he be subject to logical norms which are observations of the behavior of our cosmos. Are you willing to stick to that, all the way to the tearful end?
(can you tell I've been here recently? Skep where you at bro...are you seeing this...guffaw!)

All I'm saying for all we know, the system he designed (our universe) is the best one for character building. Yes there can be a best system. If there can't be a best system, then you will say, are you saying it's impossible for God to create the best system. Not omnipotent. That's called having your cake and eating it too.