With nothing worse to compare it to people would be asking why God had to make stubbing your toe so horribly painful.
I think I speak for an awful lot of people when I say that I'm more than prepared to cross that bridge when we come to it.
Supposing God abolishes bilharzia, AIDS, parasitic worms etc today.
We will definitely appreciate the improvement for a while, it will be at least a generation before people rail at the heavens for the terrible pain of a stubbed toe. At which point, God can just reduce the total pain in the world by some enormous factor again, and achieve the same effect. He can repeat this as fast as He likes. Either He can carry on forever, which sounds good to me, or He will eventually bottom out at an effective zero pain point, which contradicts the assumption we started with about stubbed toes but is also fine with me.
If you trust that God's decision to keep bilharzia around is a good one, I can't imagine that He could really do anything that you might consider violated that trust.
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Re: Assuming you're talking about an interventionist god...
Date: 2008-08-04 06:36 pm (UTC)I think I speak for an awful lot of people when I say that I'm more than prepared to cross that bridge when we come to it.
Supposing God abolishes bilharzia, AIDS, parasitic worms etc today.
We will definitely appreciate the improvement for a while, it will be at least a generation before people rail at the heavens for the terrible pain of a stubbed toe. At which point, God can just reduce the total pain in the world by some enormous factor again, and achieve the same effect. He can repeat this as fast as He likes. Either He can carry on forever, which sounds good to me, or He will eventually bottom out at an effective zero pain point, which contradicts the assumption we started with about stubbed toes but is also fine with me.
If you trust that God's decision to keep bilharzia around is a good one, I can't imagine that He could really do anything that you might consider violated that trust.