Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cylixd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!akgub!cylixd!charli From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: God and suffering Message-ID: <288@cylixd.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 12:22:47 EDT Article-I.D.: cylixd.288 Posted: Tue Sep 17 12:22:47 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 04:53:09 EDT References: <389@decwrl.UUCP> <275@cylixd.UUCP> <1701@pyuxd.UUCP> Reply-To: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips) Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN Lines: 25 Summary: >> Suffering is a fact of life in a fallen world. [me] > >Isn't the world just a place where a hell of >a lot of things happen, to entities each with their own self-interest, where >the natural course of events owing to physical laws results in things that >are "good", "neutral", or "bad" (causing suffering) only based on your personal >perspective (your growing different unique needs)? [Rich Rosen] > I agree with you, Rich. For that matter, so does the Bible: I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. (Ecclesiastes 9:11) I was responding specifically to a doctrinal statement (i.e., that Christ died so that we wouldn't have to suffer). Because of personal circumstances at the moment I responded, my posting may have been poorly stated and excessive. If so, I apologize, especially to Phil. Any further discussions of the Christian perspective on evil and suffering should probably be carried out in net.religion.christian. charli