Some argue that if God exists, it is immoral for him to create life amid suffering and the possibility of such pain.
Is it?
Maybe so.
But if it is, it sure seems like the wheels fall off the train quickly.
Because then, wouldn’t it be immoral to simply have children yourself?
It seems like you can’t have it both ways.
Good-grief, asking why a few times can sure make you scratch your head with questions.
If someone thinks it would be in principle immoral to create someone in a world that includes the likelihood of serious suffering, she will not only need to call God evil, she will also need to call evil anyone who decides to have a child. What follows is that if there is good reason to think that human procreation can be an act of love—despite its great cost—then there is also good reason to think that God’s creation of the world we live in could be an act of love.
-Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale, Why Suffering?
