Age old question;  why is there pain and suffering in this world.  Repeatedly we have been told that it is our cross to bear, and that we shall rejoice in the world to come.  No longer can we in truth use the ruse of the Fall and its consequence Original Sin.  The church now has the unenviable task of finding another rationalization, an alternative belief.  To me the article fails in its assumptions.  God is credited whenever any of us escape a plight;  thank God for that.  But what of all the many more unanswered prayers, no positive outcomes to the thousands dying daily with terminal illnesses...yet we are told to pray, God answers our prayers.  The author does what many do, take a supposition of faith, intuition, understanding and attribute that to a god.  Can we say 'we do not know', 'prove it', 'where is the evidence...or more importantly;  why is there evil, a dog eat dog world, suffering...no Fall, and Lord I am not worthy is NO answer to any of it...finally stop quoting Genesis