Thursday, September 25, 2025

Dated

Could suffering be the God appointed, redemptive thing?

William Dembski, Christian Theology, p. 48. Quoted by William Hasker, The Triumph of God over Evil, 2008, p. 108.

“I frankly doubt that a static, dull, monotonously perfect world is what God had in mind in creating our world. The world that God originally had in mind is the world we in fact inhabit, a messy world filled with tragedy, comedy, romance, and adventure. There never was any other world.”

There is no other choice nor has there ever been another choice. There was no Garden of Eden. Suffering is normal. Therefore our world is good “as is”, suffering is the plan. Religion will tell you otherwise, they say that, somehow, suffering is always your fault. Religion is always dated.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.