Is Eru God?

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Originally Posted by mark12_30

One: Suffering can be a free-will offering, as Sharon has described. That's one reason for it.

Two: The other 'reason' for suffering is somebody else's sin-- for instance, Hitler's sin caused a lot of suffering. Likewise, Sauron's sin caused a lot of suffering. Hence the commands not to sin.

Thought that this was interesting.

And it's obviously personal bias, but I find Eru a bit less harsh than the Christian God (not offense meant). That may be due to the actually BC interventions, or the language that is used in the Old Testament regarding the plans and thoughts of Jehovah. Eru doesn't intervene directly, and most of the work is done by the Ainur, and so I guess that he's a bit more palatable.