Paul begins with evil in the world,” How to continue to trust in a God who is supposed to be merciful Father, in a God who --- as the New Testament reveals --- is meant to be Love itself, when suffering, injustice, sickness and death seem to dominate the larger history of the worlds as well as our smaller daily lives?” . (Page 60) He poses this question of doubt because he does not understand how any God could permit wars, concentration camps, Holocaust, and other horrific events.

Paul wonders if God is love by asking questions that wonders why God allows evilness in the world. For example “Doesn’t God place too many burdens on the shoulders of individuals?” and “Doesn’t He leave man alone with these burdens, condemning him to a life without hope?”

(Both from pages 61). Paul points other problems leading to a dreary picture of the world, including issues of illness, ha

“Why Does God Tolerate Suffering?”

Paul believes that the Crucifixion remains the key to the interpretation of the great mystery of suffering throughout time. Paul writes that the crucified Christ is proof of God’s solidarity with man in his suffering, by placing Himself on the side of man in a radical way. “He emptied himself, / taking the form of a slave, / coming in human likeness; / and found human in appearance, / he humbled himself, / becoming obedient to death, / even death on a cross" (Phil 2:7-8).”.(Page 63) Paul declare that God became apart of all of those who are suffering. He states “All individual and collective suffering caused by the forces of nature and unleashed by man's free will-the wars, the gulags, and the holocausts: the Holocaust of the Jews but also, for example, the holocaust of the black slaves from Africa.” (Page 63)

After reading, this I believe God allowed man to look about himself and let him judge his own actions. If God would end suffering, how would man ever learn? If man cannot learn on there own than how would there souls develop.

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