'Why does God allow suffering?'

'Why does God allow suffering?' Dec 30, 2019 13:26:43 GMT

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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Dec 30, 2019 13:26:43 GMT

Dec 30, 2019 11:26:18 GMT OldSamVimes said:

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

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.

This doesn't seem to have much to do with what I said. To answer "why would/does God allow suffering?" first requires God existing to be answerable, otherwise you might as well ask "how many angles can fit on the head of a pin?" or "do Gargoyles hate elves?"

How is a walk in the woods on a beautiful day evidence of anything beyond the fact that our brains evolved towards appreciating certain aesthetics?