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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Word 15:38. the whole notion of an all powerful, all loving, all knowing god is an impossibility, a logical fallacy. He can't be all three.[/quote]
Only according to limited human logic[/quote]

It's the inverse of the story of the boy and the starfish, where the boy is faced with a beach full of stranded starfish and starts throwing them back one at a time. When someone observes that there are so many dying starfish that he can't make a difference, the boy says, "It made a difference to that one."

If God has a beneficent master plan for humanity, it involves the suffering of individuals. While the overall goal may be good, the methods make a difference to the few who are sacrificed for the greater good. Thus, God is causing the suffering. It may be in service to an overall greater good and master plan that we can't comprehend, but in the moment, God is causing pain and suffering to further His goals, and the person doing the suffering is unlikely to say, "I'm happy to be suffering/dying for the greater good of God's plan."[/quote]

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