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

Capturing Christianity Podcast

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God Allows

i think that if god exists and has chosen to create any unive, especially a universe with libertarian, free creatures, then it's necessary, it's ontologically necessary, that there be gratuitous evil. And the ee, the necessary part is because of the way that you're defining perfection and perfection. So how do we get from these creatures have limits to therefore we have some sort of gratuitous suffering? I would say first by the atthat if god to allow for libertarian freedom, is at an epistemic and metaphysical distance - so that god isn't overwhelming all the resident imperfections in the created order. That includes our bodies, that we're enhough to put up with

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