Tuesday 6 November 2007

The Problem of Pain


If the God Jesus Christ we believe in, is loving and all powerful, why does he let us suffer so damn much?

We all know that while Jesus was a man, Crucifixion is among the nastiest torture and execution methods that humanity has ever come up with and he suffered and died in the most painful and humiliating way possible. I really don't get why God will not take the pain from us, but he had taken the pain upon himself in its entirety.


I have received a weak signal lately that tries to bring an analogy to my myth. It reads something along the line...a good mother lets her children move out when they are old enough. She does this not because they will be safer. She does this because she knows that if she does not let them grow up they will be a shadow of what they should be. They must know freedom and difficulty in order to truly become mature.

Perhaps without the pain and struggle of life, there is no cause for us to improve ourselves?! Seems logical, but I still have my doubts.

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