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    It is not the case that If the above is true, God allows purposeless suffering

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    • 1.An omnipotent being could permit suffering without requiring it serve a discernible purpose for humans to understand.
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    • 2.Requiring all suffering to have purpose imposes a human-centric constraint on divine action that may be philosophically unjustified.
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    • 3.Some suffering appears empirically purposeless (random childhood illness), suggesting purposeless suffering is logically possible.
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