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God is Omnipotence and that his enough and everything he does or allows must be accepted. .
             Paul begins to speaking about the false image of God, which the Enlightenment accepted uncritically, "He is not the Absolute that remains outside of the world, indifferent to human suffering. He is Emmanuel, God-with-us, a God who shares man's lot and participates in his destiny. This brings to light another inadequacy, the completely false image of God which the Enlightenment accepted uncritically. With regard to the Gospel, this image certainly represented a step backward, not in the direction of a better knowledge of God and the world, but in the direction of misunderstanding them." (Page 62) Paul states "God is not someone who remains only outside of the world, content to be in Himself all-knowing and omnipotent. His wisdom and omnipotence are placed, by free choice, at the service of creation. If suffering is present in the history of humanity, one understands why His omnipotence was manifested in the omnipotence of humiliation on the Cross.". (Page 63).
             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).
             Next Paul asks about God's unbelievable tolerates with suffering.


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