(August 13, 2010 at 5:44 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote:
In response to the OP:
I respond to the problem of suffering as such:
1. knowing only good OR evil would not fit with "free" will therfore I believe with the knowledge of good and evil came choice to do evil or good (bein able to discern and clasify perhaps) and thus was born free will.
2. Natural suffering (earth quakes, tsunamis, etc.) is a direct result of natural processes and equate all things created under God.
3. Moral suffering (or evil would be a good term) is a direct cause from choice, by man, to excercise his will towards evil.
4. Suffering (connotation aside) can be used to teach consequences to indiscriminant excercise of free will.
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