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C.S. Lewis called this life "a vale of soul making." With this in mind consider that the ultimate purpose of the universe is to be a place where immature souls can be shaped and molded by circumstances to maturity where they are able to spend eternity outside of space and time with their creator. In this view, pain and suffering would lead to maturity. To extend the analogy, if you don't fall off the skateboard a time or two, you'll never really learn how to ride.
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