How can a loving, merciful and powerful God allow so much suffering and evil in our world? This is by far the most difficult spiritual question throughout the ages. Where is God when bad things happen and why didn’t God act in the face of suffering? There have been countless attempts to answer this question and even more attempts to offer some kind of acceptable theoretical explanation. In reality God is able to stop all the innocent suffering and evils in the world. However, what is at stake is the free will He gives us and in His magnitude, respects and refuses to violate it even when it would seem beneficial to do so. Free will gives us the possibility of changing or destroying the world. Is this free will one of God’s greatest regret?
Fundamentally, dogmatic theology taught that God is not so much a rescuing God but a redeeming one. The Almighty Father did not save Jesus from death on the cross but allows him to die and then raises him up again. God doesn’t necessarily intervene and rescue us from suffering, evil and death; instead he redeems our suffering afterwards. Ultimately, is this what we want? A rescue or a redemption? Do you think those who are suffering will prefer to have the tangible rescue or accept God’s silent and absence and trusting that in the end all will be well and our pain will someday be redeemed in God’s embrace. Where are you, God?
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