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God’s love doesn’t want us to just “be happy” it wants us to be our best selves. God made us so that he could love us.

“If God is omnipotent, why doesn’t he stop the bad things from happening” That would take away free will, and then there wouldn’t be life as we know it.

The Problem of Pain: an issue so many people have with the world and religion and specifically Christianity. Lewis starts off with the idea that without a benevolent creator there is no problem with pain.