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Suffering [electronic resource] : if God exists, why doesn't he stop it? / John Morris.

by Morris, John, author.

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Winchester, UK ; Washington, USA : Circle Books, 2016.

Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.

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Preface -- Where is God? -- A definition of the problem of suffering -- Scientific progress and wrong answers to suffering -- Does God exist? -- My first assumption -- A good God of holy love -- The Almighty: in what way is God omnipotent? -- Cosmology -- God the discoverer -- The big bang and inherent violence -- Freedom and creativity are both indivisible -- Robots or free-thinking people? -- Costly virtues -- Evolution's gains and losses -- Ends and means -- Rough justice -- A better world: (a) with less liberty -- A better world: (b) with more comfort -- A better world: (c) with flexible laws of physics -- Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian ideas about suffering -- God's absence or presence alongside -- Miracles of two sorts -- Reunions in heaven -- are they possible? -- A summary in seven sentences -- Earth, the optimum, or only possible world -- God's equation -- Appendix: A simplification in twenty two steps.

Don't blame legendary Adam (or Dawkins)! Suffering is unavoidable in God's best possible, free world, where evolution's gains outweigh losses.

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