God and suffering
Question one: When someone is suffering and the solution to fix their suffering is very simple, why doesn’t the Creator just tell people how to make their suffering go away? Answer: (subject to adjustment): Similar to Einstein’s view of God, I think God is mostly a hands off parent (isn’t interfering with agency and natural laws most of the time). He formed/evolved our brains and expects us to use them to figure stuff out on our own. Prayer/meditation, religious ordinances and living morally are activities which can promote conditions of lessened suffering and which can allow us to use our brains more effectively to improve our circumstances if we diligently seek to improve our circumstances. Also, though it may sound heartless, our suffering is less than a billasecond relative to our eternal timeline. God is more concerned about suffering/conditions that will last for eternity. Question two: Does God want us to suffer? Answer: The point of mortality is to allow us to ha...