Here are some excellent questions I’ve received from readers of the blog that I’d like to share with y’all, along with my attempts at responding….

 

QUESTION:

Do you think that the presence of mass suffering is not necessarily an argument against the existence of God, but rather an argument against the existence of a loving God? If so, what would a loving God be expected to do regarding suffering? Or at what point does the amount of suffering become incompatible with the existence of a loving God? I’m curious how you would define divine love in this context and what implications that definition would have for the problem of suffering/evil.

RESPONSE:

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