A man who died was being carried out the only son of his mother. Luke 7

The way the universe and our world has been created makes carbon based life forms on earth all but inevitable. Carbon is the molecular glue of life and given the hand we have been dealt it can’t be any other way. The idea of necessity I think features very prominently in any discussion of pain. We have all heard what is probably the most potent and popular argument against a beneficent creator. If God is good and loving why does he allow pain and suffering ? Given the the nature of things I believe it’s almost impossible to conceive of a world without pain as it would reduce us to a herd of mindless robots. Where’s the love in that ? Choice necessitates pain whether physical or emotional. How would we know a decision was good or bad without consequences. As CS Lewis adroitly pointed out a stick must be a stick at all times whether we use it for building or hitting our friend over the head it’s properties must always stay the same or the pack is obviously fixed. Right and wrong and learning to differentiate between the two at all levels gives reason to our existence without it there is just meaningless chaos.

But God is God he can do as he pleases so why can’t it be different? Jesus never tried to explain the world ‘ in this world you will always have troubles’ he seems to acknowledge its imperfections and rather than offering a solution at a physical level he points towards a metaphysical path ‘ I have overcome the world’ . He seems to be saying that even God cannot make a circle square . Indeed the resurrection is what it is because Christ accepted the physical nature of death but overcame it . So if God was compelled to create through love the world we live in today is the inevitable and only possible result. Pain and love are inseparable twins.