>>212462793>>212464032God permits the entire fallen system of nature to persist because it in general tends to the improvement of the human species despite its problems. The operation of nature in its fixed course occasionally results in unhappy catastrophes like this but they are not grounds for abrogation of the whole. God himself participated in our sufferings in time and demonstrated both their seriousness and final transience, as well as more basically the goodness of his will towards us, in the person of Jesus Christ. It is also not God that needs to be reconciled to us, but us that need to be reconciled to God. He is constantly calling us back to the good life. He has promised us all a future absolutely unconditional that overcomes even death. The dead are in his infinitely wise and loving hands and what should be will be