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

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The Greater Good That God Works From Human Suffering

According to Aquinas, God at times permits suffering and trials to happen to a person because he knows that through these trials a person will grow in the virtues. In order to reach this goal, we must be transformed into the sort of people who choose to freely love and enjoy God. That's fully consummated in the next life.

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