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hripka's avatar

God CAN'T control evil.

If God is love, then God’s love is inherently uncontrolling. Love does not overrule or override. It does “not force itself on others,” to quote the Apostle Paul. . . . God is unable to control people, other creatures, or circumstances that cause evil. Because God always loves and God’s love is uncontrolling, God cannot control. The God who can’t control others or circumstances can’t prevent evil singlehandedly.

From "God Can’t!: How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, or Other Evils"

by Thomas Jay Oord @ThomasJayOord

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Angela Marie's avatar

I tend to belive that if anything has meaning all things have meaning. Which makes no. 2 less apealing to me. Though "this too shall pass" is real in, not in the sense that ot doesn't matter (and maybe you didn't day that) but in the example of childbirth. I reciently had a very painful experience that I prayed hard through and when it had passed the fruit was so wonderful I was hard pressed to remember the pain.

Bless you

Angela Marie

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