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Summary:
Epicarus asked some serious questions about God and the existence of evil and suffering. Here is the gist of it.

 

If God can act and does not,
that is a choice.
If God wants to act and cannot,
then his power has limits.
If God both can and wants to,
Why does suffering exist?
If God neither can nor wants to,
Why call him God?

Pain persists.
Adjust the theology accordingly.

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    1. Age old dilemma, for sure. I’ve asked this myself of all sorts of scholarly or “intelligent” people.
      I steer clear of knocking the powers of a god-being, because some do indeed have faith in such. More power to them.
      But, life has made me quite cynical. Therefore, I choose to believe in power of mankind as the true source of hopeful change.
      Prayer is a fine form of meditation. Solutions come during that pause of…

    2. I like this, and coming from someone who grew up in a conservative faith, as I got older I began to see things differently. Folks change the words to fit the narrative so that they can claim they are backed by divine power. It’s a scary thing.
      Great work.

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