Ivan’s Children: Suffering for the Infinite?

In Dostoevsky’s last novel, The Brothers Karamazov, he attempts to secure the existence of God. While writing a compelling story he also establishes a framework for his argument. He first tries to put an argument against God with a “rebellion”, and then he immediately builds up an artistic argument for God. The discussion against God is look into the problem of evil with an interesting twist: the suffering of children. Dostoevsky goes on to reply to this argument, but does he succeed