Here is a quote from the book, Philosophy of Religion, edited by Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger on page 371. It is an excerpt from the book, Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God, by Marilyn McCord Adams.
Face-to-face intimacy with God (which would be in heaven) is far greater than any evil, trial, or suffering we go through. It is so much greater than the evils we experience that it would overcome any reasons a person had to doubt whether his life was worth living. I agree with this. Romans 8:18 says, "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us." Paul is saying that the glory to be revealed in us is far greater than any suffering we experience in life.
Where the internal coherence of Christianity is the issue, however, it is fair to appeal to its own sort of valuables. From a Christian point of view, God is a being a greater than which cannot be conceived, a good incommensurate with both created goods and temporal evils. Likewise, the good of beatific, face-to-face intimacy with God is simply incommensurate with any merely non-transcendent goods or ills a person might experience. Thus, the good of beatific face-to-face intimacy with God would engulf (in a sense analogous to Chisholmian balancing off) even the horrendous evils humans experience in this present life here below, and overcome any prima-facie reasons the individual had to doubt whether his/her life would or could be worth living.
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