Pain & Suffering

It's been a while since I've updated my blog. I've been busy with this thing called work and life. They interfere with my blogging time. If anyone has $1 billion to spare, please feel free to give it to me so I can blog more frequently.

Now that's aside, I've been lying awake on my bed for 1 hour now. So here comes another blog.

I've heard Christians say that pain & suffering is required/necessary to grow. I think that's contradictory to the Christian teaching. Before I continue, I would like to clear up that I'm only focusing on pain & suffering that is caused by another human being. Natural disasters (flood, volcanoes, earthquakes) are a different topic. And so I don't have to type too long, I'll shorten them to p&s. Not to be confused with pms but that too is another topic (drum roll!)

P&S that are caused by another human being, are product of evil intentions such as selfishness and greed among others. If p&s is necessary, then evil is necessary because p&s are caused by evil intentions and evil intention are born from lack of goodness. And what do we call lack of goodness? Evil. So shall we say that evil is necessary for us to grow? If we do, that means God requires evil to exist so we can grow. It should be common sense for Christian to believe that God does not require evil to teach and guide humanity. If you need bible quote on why God does not need evil to do his things go to your nearest pastor/priest. If your nearest pastor/priest can't do it, let me know and I'll smack them for you so I can introduce them to some p&s.

So if we don't need p&s to grow, why do they exist? There's this thing that's called "free will". Some people decides to use their free will to succumb to evil and introduce p&s to this world. What we can do is to learn from p&s so we can grow and be a better person. And using our free will, we can also decide to refuse to pass down p&s. Revenge is another carpool lane for p&s. And of course, as with most things, doing this is harder than it sounds. If you need help, please . . . feel free to not come to me cause I'm busy. Didn't you read the first paragraph? I have enough trouble updating my blog.