(March 4, 2015 at 4:50 pm)dyresand Wrote: Looking at this from face value god really doesn't care about his creations and or happiness to begin with if he cannot stop something as serious as human suffering.
I'll take you back to that thread about the 11 year old girl who died of leukemia after her parents discontinued the chemo treatments that were causing her so much suffering. I got blasted, maybe rightly so, because the parents should have forced her to go through the treatment because the end result could have been total remission. The justification was that the suffering justified the end result. God did make a world in which we have to struggle and deal with suffering and adversity. He also gave us the power to come together in love and help each other through, thus eliminating or reducing much suffering. Through this process we grow as human beings and hopefully become more appreciative of the eternal life that God is offering to each one of us. It also helps us to appreciate the love of God for us, in that he himself was willing to share in the same sufferings that he allows us to endure, and through this to give us everlasting joy.
