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You said that God's love would make Him protect and help us thereby preventing pain and suffering, but you underestimate His love I think.

If we do not experience all that existence 'is' then how can we progress towards Him? To fully comprehend happiness/love/friendship and all the other wonderful things He made, we must understand their opposites.

I love my daughter and want to spare her from anything bad that I can, but if I do so then I rob her of much of the fullness of life. I try and teach her right from wrong, and how to think critically and make good decisions, but in the end her life is up to her (as it should be).

The same is true of us, there must be an opposite in all things.

Lastly, we often learn a lot more from suffering that we do from happiness.

Just my $0.02. Peace.