God, And Human Suffering

IF GOD HAD ANYTHING TO DO with the writing of the Christian Bible, he engaged in an extreme form of micro management. He caused hundreds of versions of the life of Jesus, each considerably different from the others, to be written, rewritten, edited, and exposed to forgery, over a period of several decades. He caused thousands of clerics to travel far, at specific times and places, and to put thousands of words on hundreds of documents. He entered the mind of the Roman emperor Constantine, converted him, and placed within Constantine's mind the idea of unifying the church around agreed upon, voted upon dogmatic principles in a small town in what is now Turkey, in the year 325 A.D. In that year, in Nicea, the clerics gathered, argued, debated, and voted on which gospels to leave in, and which to leave out. Presumably God desired that his Word be brought into the world by committee, and that His Word be rewritten scores of times, translated repeatedly, often improperly, and sent out into the world in many different editions and versions. Does it follow that God micro manages the world at all times and places, did he do so only on the occasion of the assembling of the Bible, or does he just sort of come an go at his leisure? Either God causes human suffering, does not cause it but chooses to allow it, or cannot prevent it. If The supreme deity micro manages the world continuously, he has a lot of explaining to do. Namely, the horrible state of human affairs, throughout history, and in the present day. The eternal and never answered question of god and human suffering has confounded everyone since the advent of religion. In the Old testament thousands of animals are sacrificed to an apparently meat eating God, in an attempt to appease him. Is does not seem to work. A poet once said: If God is good, God is not God. If God is God, god is not good. The problem of reconciling extensive human suffering with a benevolent God has existed since humans invented religion. It has never been done. Millions of Christian, nonetheless, think they have done it, at least to their own satisfaction. They introduce free will. free will only means that God chooses to allow human suffering. They introduce the devil. The devil means that God either chooses to allow the devil to have power, or cannot prevent it from happening. the answer is perhaps that human understanding of God is misguided, inadequate. Einstein that "morality is of the highest importance, for mankind, but not for God". Maybe Einstein was right; he usually was.