This video gives a fairly clear answer to an age-old question: if God exists and he is all good and powerful, then why do people, especially the innocent, suffer? In his argument, Peter Kreeft basically says that the fact we even say “it’s not fair” is a proof that God exists, because it points to a pre-conceived notion of what justice is; one that we didn’t come up with, but have natural sense of. Suffering is difficult to understand precisely because it isn’t fair – because it happens at random, to the good and the bad without discrimination. And when we say that this isn’t right, that it defies logic, we are pointing to a standard of what is good and what is just that all of us hold, but which isn’t limited to our personal opinions – it is a notion that was given to us, and we can know that God is good precisely because we know what good and bad, right and wrong are. If there were nothing or no one that is goodness in itself, we would have no concept of what goodness is, or what of goes against that goodness.
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