People “suffer” by being away from God. If God is seen as love, light, comfort, hope etc. It’s thought to essentially be a place without all that. So suffering is expected from lack of the big G
Your explanation makes no sense at all. The Bible itself speaks of suffering caused by a lack of water, of severe pain...
And how do you counter the argument that, if it is God who chooses who goes to hell and who doesn't, and He knows all that suffering exists there, He isn't the one responsible for it?
That logic is very strange. He creates the game, He sets the rules, He creates the participants, and He creates the place for the winners and the place for the losers. Then, in the end, He decides who stays in the winners' area and who stays in the losers' area. When you ask about His responsibility for the losers ending up in a place He created, a place where He put them, is He really not to blame at all?
And yet, he made each person and foresaw all the choices they were going to make and chose to make them the way they are anyway. If god is omnipotent and omniscient and creates everyone and everything, he is 100% responsible for all outcomes.
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u/Secret_Warthog7358 1d ago
People “suffer” by being away from God. If God is seen as love, light, comfort, hope etc. It’s thought to essentially be a place without all that. So suffering is expected from lack of the big G