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CC114: Why Pointless Suffering is Consistent with an All-loving God (Dr. Kirk MacGregor)

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Molanism and Possible Worlds

A possible world is just a complete description of how things could have been. The relevant passages, romans eight 28 and ephesians one 11, don't talk about god causing the suffering or god causing the evil. They present the evil as just being there, and they then tell you what god does with it. It says instead that god somehow brings some good out of the evil. Scripture never promises. But we can rely on the fact that when you go through suffering, don't engage in sort of this pointless exercise,. How could god have allowed this? Why did god this happen? We shake our fist at god in blaming god; i think god is saying back to us, look

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