2 hours ago · 0 comments

Why suffering is allowed is something i tried to understand more clearly today instead of just circling it The teaching itself is actually direct when it’s explained properly. God does not create evil. when people do something wrong, that comes from them choosing it, not from Him. that part is simple, even if it’s hard to accept sometimes then there’s the other part, that the world itself isn’t how it was meant to be. original sin is what it’s called. not just one moment, but something that affected everything after it. so things don’t hold together the way they should, illness exists, things break down, things happen without a clear reason. so suffering comes from both, from people and from the state the world is already in that explains where it comes from, but not why it’s allowed to continue the answer given is that God permits it, but does not will it as evil, and that He can bring something out of it even when it isn’t good in itself. the example that always comes back is…

No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.