In The Problem of Pain, Lewis asserts that God's goodness is a sufficient answer to the question of why humanity was created: God is good, and therefore his decisions are perfectly good. This concept - which seems to make logical sense - has some enormous implications, even though Lewis seems to dismiss the concept as soon as he addresses it. If God is good, and all his decisions are for good, then the state of the world is appropriate and ultimately positive, for God is also sovereign. The existence of human suffering then seems to be chosen by God as an ingredient of eventual earthly goodness. If I am not mistaken, C.S. Lewis seems to have solved the problem of pain unintentionally.
Am I wrong?
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