"If your god is so all powerful , so omnipotent, omnipresent and truly loving why does rely on social misfits who usually dress like their grandparents and saddos like you ( and me) who spend too much time on football chat rooms.
Well I can't claim any special non-saddo place in the Church, but the reading at Mass last weekend reminded us that “we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”(Ephesians 2:10) and the fact that He has chosen me for some special purpose is amazing to me
Honestly WTF is he doing whilst your desperately trying to convince us of his existence?? NOT sorting out childhood cancer amongst other things I could mention."
I cannot convince you of His existence, only He can do that. I am only on this thread because someone made a comment about RE in schools I chose to answer
Childhood cancer is a shocking evil, and the question you have asked there is the hardest one, with no clear answer. All I can do personally is pray for those affected and offer service where I can. Pondering on the problem of evil is something we have been doing for as long as we have existed, the book of Job is thought to be amongst the oldest of the Wisdom literature that mankind has, and that is exactly what it speaks about. Why do bad things happen to good people. It does not propose an answer to this question, but shows that suffering is part of God’s plan, that it has to be accepted as long as it lasts, and that God does not abandon the sufferer. The fulfillment is in Jesus sacrifice and Catholics believe that by uniting ourselves to the sacrifice of Christ, we will turn all this negative stuff into a source of 'supernatural light' and will find in it the peace and the joy which no created thing can provide. Not an easy path to walk by any means, and I have spent my own time in lamentation, as did Job, and had to cling to the ideas that the suffering tested my virtue, protected me from pride and increased my humility, and it encouraged me to put myself completely into God’s hands.
