If we are to have all this, there will inevitably be suffering for the short period of our lives on Earth. Swinburne argues that God wants humans to learn and to love, to make the choices which make great differences for good and evil to each other, to form our characters in the way we choose above all to be of great use to each other. Richard Swinburne provides an examination of this problem, and offers an answer: it is because God wants more for us than just pleasure or freedom from suffering. Why does a loving God allow humans to suffer so much? This is one of the most difficult problems of religious belief.
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