I see the argument, but it doesn't square up. God has His own plan, his own agenda. It's much bigger than anything we can conceive of intellectually, so who are we to say that the suffering of a little child does not have some higher purpose? We, however, are bound to alleviate the suffering of a little child, if we can.
Pain, for example, most of us think of as bad. But without it, we would never learn to take our hand off a hot stove.
There's no conflict in this belief whatsoever, except in the mind of the test designers.
I'm no theologian either, not by a long shot. Theologians are not be definition good, and what they say is not by definition correct, nor does it necessarily reflect the true nature of God. |
