1333. Could a Loving God Allow Such Suffering? By Daniel C. Peterson in Meridian Magazine
Don't we learn the most from the adversity we go through? It seems so after! There are those who are suffering all over the world right now! Let's pray for them. Especially Afghanistan! Could a Loving God Allow Such Suffering? By Daniel C. Peterson · August 19, 2021 A reader of my blog “ Sic et Non ” has raised the venerable problem of evil. Philosophers term it the question of “theodicy,” which focuses on whether and (if so) how, given the existence of evil, a belief in God’s goodness and in divine providence can be justified. For the faithful, this is often one of the thorniest and most difficult of challenges. And it seems, at least temporarily, to have cost my reader his faith in a benevolent God. In a recent blog entry titled “ On a Disagreeable God ”, I had written that “the God who revealed himself through the Prophet Joseph Smith and the Restoration” is a kind and benevolent Father who wants to give us eve...