"the problem of pain" by CS Lewis

The Problem of Pain answers the universal question, "Why would an all-loving, all-knowing God allow people to experience pain and suffering?" Master Christian supporter C.S. Lewis asserts that pain is a problem because our predetermined, human minds selfishly believe that pain-free lives would prove that God loves us. In truth, by asking for this, we want God to love us less, not more, than he does. "Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved; that the mere 'kindness', which tolerates anything except suffering in its object, is, in that respect at the opposite pole from…