Nascent Thinker | Contemplations Along The Way

Is all suffering meaningless?

The more I think about it, the more I real­ize that it isn’t the case. Which forces me to con­clude that any­one who says that “suf­fer­ing is incom­pat­i­ble with a benev­o­lent God” hasn’t given suf­fer­ing proper con­sid­er­a­tion. It seems that the prob­lem is we aren’t con­tent with not know­ing. God’s answer to Job wasn’t enough! Job should have insisted. Hmm, gives me a few good thoughts… And by the way, Mak­ing Sense of Suf­fer­ing (which I’ll review soon) is an excel­lent book, well worth read­ing.… (Read more)