'Why does God allow suffering?'

'Why does God allow suffering?' Dec 30, 2019 11:26:18 GMT

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Post by OldSamVimes on Dec 30, 2019 11:26:18 GMT

Dec 29, 2019 5:17:52 GMT Eva Yojimbo said:

Dec 28, 2019 17:26:01 GMT OldSamVimes said:

How so?

It seems obvious that if someone is going to ask 'Why does God allow suffering' you have to take into consideration the implications of what God existing would mean.

And what are those implications? Implications require some kind of known facts by which to reason from. If you don't know anything about something then, even if you imagine it exists, its existence doesn't "imply" anything because you can literally make up anything you want about it.

In any case, the rational question to ask isn't "if god (any given god) exists, how can we rationalize the way reality is," the rational question is "given how reality is, is that good evidence that god (any given god) exists."

In the question 'Why would/does God allow suffering', there are assumptions you can make even though I agree with you that no human mind can 'know God'.

No matter what kind of God the belief is in, there is always connected to it the belief that 'When we die that's not it'.

If when you die, 'that's not it', your suffering here is given a different perspective.

A walk in the woods on a beautiful day is all the evidence I need.