How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.
God has always been hard on the poor.
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
God tests His people through hardship.
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.
Life isn't fair, but God is.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.