Post by FilmFlaneur on Sept 15, 2017 13:28:07 GMT
Suffering or not should not have an impact on faith since Christians can bear anything....including terminal illnesses. People have been doing it for centuries.
And yet there are plenty of instances of suffering causing a lose of faith, as well as strengthening it. The fact that it can work just as easily both ways suggests that there is no objective confirmation of the role of suffering in reality and it is just what one makes of it. As for Christians always having to bear up under suffering, well, that's not surprising for an atheist for the obvious reason - as well as the fact that I have been assured that God apparently 'does not micromanage'.