@Tuesdays_Child I don’t know why the world is the way it is, I don’t pretend to, but I’m almost certain god doesn’t work that way, he doesn’t play that game. He/she/it doesn’t mess with people that way. A Job scenario???? God let the devil get in his ear, as the story goes and God took a pious, faithful man, decent man, Job, and destroyed everything Job had, destroyed all his worldly possessions and then killed all his children. That’s the kind of God you want to believe in? That something is just some kind of “Job scenario?” That’s a good enough explanation? God does all things for our own good? God is the source of both our blessings and our curses? Is the source of both the good and the evil that befalls us and whatever his reasons are should be good enough for us? I don’t buy. I don’t think that god has some grand scheme that involves him hovering over house fires and earthquakes and car accidents deciding whose precious baby will live and whose precious baby will die. He doesn’t work that way. He/she/it is not so capricious, he doesn’t play those games, I don’t think.