A question:
Another question Why does God allow pain and suffering? [1]
The Answer:
For the body pain is very useful. When you feel pain, you may be quite sure that there is a kind of disease of sickness. And you try to find recovery. But the most fearful sickness is that without pain. It may distract the body but at last the person may feel pain. When many things became distracted in his body. So, pain is useful.
And also, the pain of the soul of the spirit. When a person sins, this pain may guide him to repentance. Pain of others may guide us to sympathy for others and help for others. We don’t take only the black side of pain and leave the white side of pain.
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[1] A Question Answered by His Holiness Pope Shenouda in a Sermon Entitled “Be holy as I am holy – Youth Meeting” Dated: 22 November 2002