While obviously unsatisfying the resolution to the Epicurean paradox is that evil serves a good purpose that is unknown to us but known to God.
Like a child screaming when a cut is disinfected by a parent. The pain is incomprehensible to a small child. So we too are “small spiritual children”, and the grotesque pain of the world serves as some sort of refining process that is incomprehensible to us.
While obviously unsatisfying the resolution to the Epicurean paradox is that evil serves a good purpose that is unknown to us but known to God.
Like a child screaming when a cut is disinfected by a parent. The pain is incomprehensible to a small child. So we too are “small spiritual children”, and the grotesque pain of the world serves as some sort of refining process that is incomprehensible to us.
Or so the thinking goes…