From a netfriend:

Like I have repeatedly said the problem of evil, pain, suffering has not been solved by anyone.

I answer as honestly as I can above. Read Job. God doesn’t give him a decent answer. God kills his family. If this is really the work of God then we are ALL in big trouble. There is is no point to anything. God is capricious and evil. Maybe Sartre is correct. Maybe you are correct.

On the other hand I cannot NOT believe in God as a result of all the positive things that I have experienced. I cannot abandon and negate these things. They are very real to me.

So …… I live with contradiction and paradox …and struggle to find the truth. I throw myself into the arms of God in a leap of faith …and go on in the journey of faith.

“I have held the hand of the devil, it was warm in the night, I was cold as a stone ….. I believe in the Kingdom Come when all the colours will bleed into one but yes, I’m still running …you broke the bonds, loosed the chains, carried the cross and my shame, you know I believe it …but I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.” – U2

“Through the storm we reach the shore … nothing left to win and nothing left to lose … I can’t live with or without you” – U2

” Sad eyes, crooked crosses in God’s country … I stand with the sons of Cain burned by the fire of love.” – U2