re: Do you believe in Evolution?

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I struggle with this as well. However, I think we want God to save us from pain and suffering. We expect a loving god to erase all the pain in the world. I expect him to erase the medical problems my 6 year old has. But, to me…that seems pretty self centered…and demanding of God.

I just play the cards I'm dealt. And sometimes, like in the case of my 6 year old…we get dealt a crappy hand. But, just because little man suffers doesn't mean God doesn't care or even love us. It just means that life sucks….for everyone….who ever lived.

Does that make God a cruel guy. I say no. I say we live in a cruel world. God gives us peace and security to deal with that world.

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A cruel world, created by an all powerful being who could have created it in any fashion?

First, I appreciate your civil and entirely reasonable responses. Bravo.

However, it seems odd to me that God would create a world we'd have to "deal with."

I have a perfectly healthy 13 year old boy. A friend of mind has one the same age who is stricken with a horrible affliction and has been since birth. One day at church (when they were like 5) they had on the same clothes--and had their picture taken together. That image has stuck with me.

The typical response? That it was "God's Will" for that other boy to be stricken, and that God would provide for this other family, that this was a test, etc etc. But it seems so arbitrary and unfair--in fact, it seems random, and like a place where God in fact doesn't really get into the minutia of day to day life on Earth.