Why does God want his children to suffer so much?

Question

I mean, he has hell and all, why did he need Earth, too?

Does the question say anything about who created hell? DON'T THINK SO!

God gave us a choice, eh? So we're just little playthings? Let's see how they screw themselves up? What purpose does that serve unless it is to amuse a cruel "God"?

Why didn't he create us perfect so that all our choices would be good? Why didn't he show us how to love, rather than hate?

Answer 1

God has given us a choice and that is to choose between good and evil. God gave us earth as a good thing but man through his carnal nature has caused all the problems. God does not want his children to suffer. Suffering is just a part of life. Some people just suffer more than others because of life's circumstances. Remember it rains on the just and unjust. We gain patience through tribulation and trials. Heaven or Hell it's an individual decision. Just make the right choice .... it's yours to make.

Answer 2

Why are you so convinced that it is God's doing..perhaps he just sets us free to do out own thing, suffer the consequences of what we do, reap the rewards of what we do...take the blame for what we do badly. God is a very convenient thing to blame everything on...but it is a cop out. Accept responsibility for the good and the bad, and perhaps the good will be more, the bad less.

Answer 3

Who really is to blame for it?

Humans are to blame for much of the suffering. They fight wars, commit crimes, pollute the environment, often carry on business in a manner motivated by greed rather than concern for their fellowman, and sometimes indulge in habits that they know can be harmful to their health. When they do these things, they hurt others and themselves. Should it be expected that humans would be immune to the consequences of what they do? Is it reasonable to blame God for these things that humans themselves do?

Satan and his demons also share responsibility. The Bible discloses that much suffering is because of the influence of wicked spirits. The suffering for which so many people blame God does not come from him at all.

How did suffering get started? Examination of the causes focuses attention on our first human parents, Adam and Eve. Jehovah God created them perfect and put them in paradise surroundings. If they had obeyed God, they would never have got sick or died. They could have enjoyed perfect human life forever. Suffering was not part of Jehovah’s purpose for mankind. But Jehovah clearly told Adam that continued enjoyment of what He had given them depended on obedience.

Obviously, they had to breathe, eat, drink, and sleep in order to continue living. And they had to keep God’s moral requirements in order to enjoy life fully and to be favored with such life forever. But they chose to go their own way, to set their own standards of good and bad, and thus they turned away from God, the Life-Giver. (Gen. 2:16, 17; 3:1-6) Sin led to death. It was as sinners that Adam and Eve produced children, and they could not pass on to their children what they no longer had. All were born in sin, with inclinations toward wrongdoing, weaknesses that could lead to illness, a sinful inheritance that would eventually result in death. Because everyone on earth today was born in sin, all of us experience suffering in various ways..

Ecclesiastes 9:11 says that “time and unforeseen occurrence” also have a bearing on what happens to us. We may get hurt, not because the Devil directly causes it or because any human does it, but because by chance we are in a place at the wrong moment.


Jesus performed many miracles to demonstrate that he was the Messiah. He even raised the dead. Those works attracted the crowds, but Jesus did not come to earth merely to do a social work. He came to bear witness to the truth. He knew that any material benefits he provided were temporary. Even the resurrected ones would die again. Only by bearing witness to the truth could he help some to gain everlasting life. (Luke 18:28-30) Today, some individuals try to imitate Jesus’ good works by opening hospitals or performing other services among the world’s poor. In some cases, they do this at great personal cost, and their sincerity is commendable; but any relief they supply is temporary at best. Only the Kingdom a Heavenly Government that Jesus talked about when He was on the Earth will bring permanent relief.

Answer 4

God does not want anyone to suffer. We choose to disobey him and then we blame him for the consequences which we brought about. If you are going to believe that he causes pain maybe you should believe enough to get to know who he is.

Answer 5

I don't know, but I seriously LOVE the hair on your avatar! =)

As for the suffering ... I guess it's our "time on the cross" so to speak? I'm not really sure, though. Nor do I agree with it.

I question so many things when it comes to religion/spirituality.

Answer 6

First of all, Hell and Earth (this world) is one and the same. Furthermore, God does not want his children to suffer at all. While Adam (mankind) was still in the Land of the Living, after he had eaten of the "forbidden fruit," he knew that he was going to die. But after his death and banishment to the world beneath, he knew nothing at all. He did not even know that he had died.

Man was exiled from the Land of the Living to the land of the dead where there is no Knowledge, no Wisdom, and no Understanding. Thus Man caused his own death by eating the "fruit" that was poisoned with the "knowledge of evil," and caused himself to be cast into the endless cycle of the fires of Hades. God has never wished to torment Man endlessly in the fires of this world, but He has rather been working for ages on a plan to rescue Man from the place that has entrapped him.

The Scriptures tell us of the plan of God to save us out of the world of the dead and to save us from being condemned along with this world. The theme of the entire Bible (despite its apparent diversity and variety of men who wrote it down) is concerning the plan of God to free man from the captivity he brought upon himself. And man (Adam) has no idea or notion of the sacrifice that God has made for man's redemption -- to free man from the captivity that he works so hard at to retain. The entire Bible, from front to back, is concerned with releasing Adam (Man) from his sentence of death, from his imprisonment in the world, which is "beneath", and restoring him to his former estate.

Adam [Luke 3:38] was sentenced to imprisonment in the world of forgetfulness. Man's lack of memory is the reason for the messages from our Father trying to bring former things back to our minds. The Scriptures are the Father's attempts to prod us to remembrance. The beginning of the Book tells us that Man was exiled from the Garden so that he could not partake of the Tree of Life, receiving a sentence of death. The ending of the Book tells us of the resurrection of Man from the dead. The same theme runs through the entire Book, the theme of rescuing Adam from the land of his exile, from the world of the dead.

Answer 7

The suffering now is nothing compared to those who will not accept the free gift of salvation.

Answer 8

God did not create hell.....have you ever read the Bible before?

Answer 9

He is spanking us for being so bad
there was no room in Hell

Answer 10

if there was really a god he would not if there was a god he would be a horrible person to allow it. but as we all know god is make belief, sorry!