Atheism Due To The Problem Of Evil
God’s idea of test is explained in detail in the link shared above. Pain and suffering are not absolute quantities . They’re relative to how much one has the experience or the knowledge of. For some, just a toothache could be catastrophic while for others the threshold could be orders of magnitude higher. Please consider this: – Every person in this world is granted the ability to distinguish right from wrong . – The purpose of this world is to test people in many different dimensions and find out who amongst them are capable of sticking to the right path , regardless of the situations that they are placed under. – Death is inevitable, but is not the end of life . It’s just an event that marks the end of the test for any given individual. – The life in this world is for an extremely short span of time. The life after death is infinitely longer. – Any amount of pain and suffering in this world is also minuscule as compared to the possible pain and suffering in the hereafter . – Similarly, any amount of joy or comfort in this world is infinitely smaller than the amount that one can achieve in the hereafter. – There’s an event after death where every person shall reap the rewards or punishment for their own doings, where no one shall be wronged, and complete justice shall be served . – No one shall be held accountable for their circumstances (doings of others, poverty, disasters, etc.) but only their own actions . Once we really understand this narrative, are able to comprehend that a test can’t be conducted in the absence of pain and suffering, and that our experience of pain and suffering is a relative phenomenon (it’s not absolute), then I don’t think that rationally there can be any objections on the existence or the mercy of God. In fact, this narrative fully supports the argument for God’s mercy.