What about the 2 and half year old who dies of brain cancer caused by rare DNA mutations? Or MS? Or cerebral palsy? Humans didn't cause that, that's just nature (aka "God").
Did that child "build character" thorough a short life of nothing but suffering? Or does he exist just to give his parents that wonderful gift? What happens to babies and toddlers in the afterlife, are they still babies and toddlers? If not, what the heck are they? Are they poofed to the magical age of 21 without having to go through the trials of teen hormones and young adulthood? They were never given the chance to develop that oh so special character here on earth.
Your "solution" to the problem of evil has a LOT of loopholes, this is just the first one that sprang to mind.
Did that child "build character" thorough a short life of nothing but suffering? Or does he exist just to give his parents that wonderful gift? What happens to babies and toddlers in the afterlife, are they still babies and toddlers? If not, what the heck are they? Are they poofed to the magical age of 21 without having to go through the trials of teen hormones and young adulthood? They were never given the chance to develop that oh so special character here on earth.
Your "solution" to the problem of evil has a LOT of loopholes, this is just the first one that sprang to mind.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
