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The Problem of Evil: Why Is There Evil if a Good God Exists? | Prof. Gloria Frost

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Why Doesn't God Permit Humans to Sinne?

We see too many examples in the world of people who don't seem to grow stronger through their suffering. Rather, they're broken by the evil they experience and they turn their backs on God. Aquinas doesn't directly address these cases, but he does claim that if a person was truly just or good, God would never permit anything to happen to them which would impede their final salvation. So it seems that there are two possibilities for the case of those who appear to turn away from God in the face of great suffering.

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