Why would God allow suffering to exist?

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Before you were born, you laid in an unchanging state. Since you were born, you have suffered and have grown in ways that make you unrecognizable to your original self. Suffering is an aspect of chaos, and thus change.
 
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Serious answer is because "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," (Romans 3:23) The world and all humanity are inherently evil through sin, and so God doesn't destroy all evil because doing so would destroy us too. Because God loves humanity he sent his son Jesus to die on the cross so that people could redeem themselves through him. No more sacrifices or archaic rituals needed unlike the Abrahamic days.
 
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The Greeks and Romans discussed this shit millennia ago. Is this God beholden to the laws of reality, or in control of them? If the former, then he can't be omnipotent. If the latter, then he wants suffering to happen. An omnipotent God could forge a reality in which free will exists without suffering and other things. If an omnipotent God created this world, then he created us to suffer.
 
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UERISIMILITUDO said:
The Greeks and Romans discussed this shit millennia ago. Is this God beholden to the laws of reality, or in control of them? If the former, then he can't be omnipotent. If the latter, then he wants suffering to happen. An omnipotent God could forge a reality in which free will exists without suffering and other things. If an omnipotent God created this world, then he created us to suffer.
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In the case of the latter the question becomes "What is the purpose of suffering?" The likely answer is that pain is a powerful teacher. But that begets a question that is not contemplated enough: what are we being taught for?
 
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not william stenchever said:
In the case of the latter the question becomes "What is the purpose of suffering?" The likely answer is that pain is a powerful teacher. But that begets a question that is not contemplated enough: what are we being taught for?
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a sword that is well-forged is a sword that has endured the forging process. The forging process is a process of flame, hammering into shape, grinding away and tempering. The whole process is one of great pain, but the sword that endures it all and holds together despite the process is the sword that becomes a masterpiece.
 
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Str8Bustah said:
a sword that is well-forged is a sword that has endured the forging process. The forging process is a process of flame, hammering into shape, grinding away and tempering. The whole process is one of great pain, but the sword that endures it all and holds together despite the process is the sword that becomes a masterpiece.
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Souls being forged and reshaped for war within the personal demesne of a deity, a realm where they would be all-powerful, is pretty metal but also kind of bleak.
 
not william stenchever said:
In the case of the latter the question becomes "What is the purpose of suffering?" The likely answer is that pain is a powerful teacher. But that begets a question that is not contemplated enough: what are we being taught for?
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Being taught for our salvation I would say. History has shown a pattern of good times bringing about degeneracy. What do we have in modern times? Men fucking other men, parading around in the streets half naked or worse. We have men cutting their dicks off, women removing their tits. You have people dressing up in animal costumes and partaking in all sorts of degeneracy. And the most disgusting, the process of normalizing pedophilia is already underway.

So what is the conclusion to all this? It’s that suffering is what prevents us from partaking in sin. At least, not to a significant degree. Without struggle we have all the time in the world to partake in our hedonistic desires.
 
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You silly billy. Suffering is innate to unmet desire just as evil exists because of the lack of good. Don't you retards read Thomas Aquinas?
 
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