Sarx

And a reminder – the posting deadline is 15 June. We’ve two respondents, anyone else?
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Now! Here’s a meme for you! I picked it up at Jspot. I’m not going to tag people because this isn’t the sort of thing we can respond to in a couple of easy blurbs.

Sign up here to respond by June 15th: post your name in the comments to this post. I will repost these questions on June 15th… and, hopefully, my own attempt at an answer. If you do not have a blog (Fr E, Donald!) and you want to respond to this meme – I will be happy to allow you a guest post on that day – or else you may post in the comment section on that day. There are some bloggers I’d like to hear from (Bp Alan, Elizabeth!), but I think this needs to be a voluntary thing.

I will repost this invitation every few days. June 15th is the day.

1. if the nature of god is omnipotent, benevolent, and anthropomorphic (that god is a person, who sees suffering as wrong, and can change all of it), why does god not act to relieve all suffering, or at least the greatest amount of suffering for the greatest amount of people the greatest amount of time?

2. if you were god, and you were omnipotent and benevolent, how would you respond to suffering?

3. if this is not the nature of god, what is the nature of god, that allows suffering in the world?

4. if these are the wrong questions to ask, what are the right ones?