This is a powerful and touching myth, not least because it gives a rather tidy answer to the perennial human problem of suffering and evil. (religion-online.org)
Quoted by John Bowker, Problems of Suffering in Religions of the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), p. 265. (religion-online.org)
Eschatological thinking appeals to believers partly because it provides a response to the perennial problem of suffering. (religion-online.org)