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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: God and suffering
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 12:22:47 EDT
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Reply-To: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
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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