Tackling The Problem Of Evil - Part 5: Suffering As Character Development

This is part 5 in a blog post series on the problem of evil and suffering. In the past 3 posts, we've been dealing with the probabilistic version of the problem of evil. In Part 2, We've seen that there are good philosophical and biblical reasons to believe that God has given mankind free will, and therefore, the reason there's so much suffering in the world is because people abuse the free will God has given them. Even though God knew ahead of time that we would abuse our free will, He gave...