"If God is omnipotent, then why does he permit the suffering of children?" The question arises often. And it's not that those who ask it misunderstand God, but rather that they cannot fathom God's grandiosity - the unknowable nature of his being. God is permission itself. Not only does God permit suffering and the greatest of evils, but the rest of everything as well, all of reality and being as a whole. God permits existence itself. God permits even godlessness. God gives permission for godhood. God permits permission.