If God loves us, why doesn't he stop us from suffering?

Question

He has the power to. If my children were suffering and I could stop it, I woud do it. I guess I am just better than God.

Answer 1

God sent His Word & healed us of all our diseases. God does love us. That is why He has given us His Word.

But God is not mocked, people reap what they sow. That is what we verbally say. If we say, "We will always suffer..." then we will. If we say, "God is my healer...". Then we are healed. When we claim God's Word / Promises, then we have the victory. If we claim our fears, then our fears come to pass.

So? God wants you to be above your problems and not under them. He wants you to be productive in all things you do, even as your soul prospers. God wants you to be the head and not the tail.

God doesn't have the power to if you don't let Him. Submit unto God, resist Satan & satan flees. Then everything changes. Submit to God's Word.

Answer 2

The Problem of Evil:

If God were all-good, God would wish to stop all pointless evil (i.e., evil which does not result in a greater good).

If God were all-powerful, God could stop all pointless evil.

But there is pointless evil.

Therefore:

Either God is not all-good, or God is not all-powerful, or God does not exist.

There is no way out of this. Most theists' arguments hinge on a tacit or explicit denial of the fact that there is pointless evil. They will say all evil works for a greater good. For example, they will argue that the greater good of human freedom redeems all moral evil from pointlessness. But does it? I don't think so. I think the evil of the Shoah (Holocaust) was so obscenely great that it verges on barbarism to suggest it served any "greater good." Likewise for natural evils such as disease. Theists can come up with all sorts of far-fetched reasons why God promotes a "greater good" by allowing smallpox and cholera epidemics, famines, earthquakes, and tidal waves, but all of those arguments, in the face of the tormented and suffering, sound obscene. Other arguments suggest that God set up the system of the natural world and now can't alter it. But if God were all-powerful and all-good, why did God set up the system in a way that countless sentient beings have lives of unremitting agony?

Take your choice: either God is not all-good (Jung's option), or God is not all-powerful (process theology), or God does not exist (atheism, or on a more hopeful note, the Christian atheism of Gabriel Vahanian, or Buddhism).

Answer 3

If God was going to stop all the suffering in the world, He may as well take away our free will too. We may as well just be like robots that God controls all the time. We're not in heaven. Things cannot be perfect.

Also, God is not to blame for the suffering. We as humans cause our own suffering and contribute to the suffering of others. There are ways we can deal with suffering, and God made sure we would know how. Jesus taught many principles that would ease suffering if everyone were to follow them. A lot of God's laws from the Old Testament were not just laws because He wants to control us, but because He wants us to be happy. He wants us to be free from a lot of the suffering we can bring upon ourselves.

It all makes sense, if you believe in God and you really think about these things. Religion is not just about rules and doctrines. There are reasons for all of it.

Answer 4

Why Does God enable us to go through? this is a query that almost all human beings has asked at one factor or yet another. in spite of the fact that this is an exceptionally stable question, and it definitely has an exceptionally stable answer. Jesus mentioned: "He that has persisted to the top is the only which would be stored." (Matthew 24:3, 13) Jesus' words inspire us to take an prolonged-variety view. We must be arranged to bear many unsightly situations formerly the top ultimately comes. yet, is God the only responsible for the suffering? Does this is clever, then, to be offended with God using fact he helps suffering? not once you think approximately that God has promised to end all suffering. Nor does it make experience to experience that God motives undesirable issues to ensue. Many tragic happenings are only the effect of random activities. think of, as an occasion, that the wind blows a tree down and it injures somebody. human beings would call this an act of God. yet God did not make that tree cave in. The Bible enables us to relish that such issues are only the unhappy effect of "time and unexpected occurrence."—Ecclesiastes 9:11. check out the links in source, and that i desire this helps to respond to a number of your questions.

Answer 5

the reason why we suffer is not because God is a uncaring God. It is because Satan the devil raised a question to God. And he questioned God's sovereinty which is his right to rule. he claims that we only serve God because he gives us things and we don't serve him out of love. Hence the account of Job. God being a wise God hasn't given Satan the oppurtunity to prove his case. Just like for example in a classroom and a rebellious child stands up and says that he can teach the class better than the teacher can well the teacher allows the student to do so not only to prove to the student but to prove to the rest of the class that the teacher is the only one qualified to teach. it's the same with Satan he has allowed him to rule this system to prove not to just Satan but also to his angels and us that God is the Almighty and the only one that has the right to rule. and soon God Jehovah will put an end to Satans system and the righteous ones will dwell here on earth in a perfect state and in paradise which was the original purpose for mankind.

Answer 6

Personal suffering results from unforgiveness and sin, resulting in unrighteous choices and sickness, mostly due to varying degrees of demon oppression which you allow yourself.

Suffering can also be God tempering your character, improving you instead of spoiling you - raising you into God's wisdom.

Suffering can also be persecution which comes temporarily because you believe God's promises (persecution will come on account of the word to test if you really believe the word).

Suffering in the world is due to sinfulness over many generations, nations turning away from God, leaders making ungodly decisions and leading their people into hardships, people not coming before God to pray for the leaders and to ask God to heal their land.

Answer 7

Suffering is learning. We all allow our children to suffer (some more than others) but we all are there for the child to comfort him. God does the same thing. He let's us fall, He let's us suffer, and then when we call out to Him, He comforts us.

Answer 8

There are no easy answers to the question of the purpose of suffering and evil. The tendency is to blame God for these conditions, but He did not create them. They came as a result of man's disobedience to God, beginning back in the Garden of Eden; see Genesis 3:16-19. Often suffering and adversity are brought about by disregard of God's will or by the direct efforts of Satan or by natural disasters in a physical world which is also affected by man's sin and the resulting judgment. God, however, has offered the most effective solution possible by giving His Son to die for all. Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price when He suffered and died on the cross, having taken upon Himself the sin of the world and all of its horrible consequences. When Jesus returns in power and glory, there will be a new world completely free from sin with its sorrow and suffering (Revelation, chapters 21 and 22).

We can be sure that God in His divine purpose desires to bring about in us the greatest good and to allow suffering to be a means of discipline through which love, patience, grace, and faith may be cultivated in our lives. God never asks us to understand; we need only trust Him in the same way that we expect our earthly children to trust our love. Peace comes when we realize we are able to see only a few threads in the great tapestry of life and of God's plan. Then we can affirm with great joy and assurance that "in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose" (Romans 8:28).

The way we react to suffering will determine whether life's most tragic experiences bring bitterness and despair or become sources of blessing. The greatest joy will come when, in the midst of adversity, we look up into His face and say, "I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation" (Habakkuk 3:18). It is then that His promise will be most meaningful, "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze" (Isaiah 43:2).

Answer 9

Jesus said many times to a person suffering who came to Him for relief, "Be it unto you according to your faith." I never saw one person in the Gospels who truly believed denied the miracle they needed.

It's clear enough that there are Christians who have faith to suffer. They allow circumstances to dictate their experience in correspondence with the Word of God instead of bringing their circumstances into subjection to the Word of God and allowing the Word of God define their experience.

Psalm 34:19 says "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all." This has been my experience for the past 12+ years. Was it a fight sometimes? Yes. Have some fights been long fights. Absolutely! But thanks be to God who always causes us to triumph in Christ! (That's the Word of God too: 2 Corinthians 2:14, to be exact.)

Answer 10

If you were able to stop each stumble, each mistake, each bad choice that your children make, how would that help them? We learn my our mistakes; we pay for our sins; we earn what we win. If God mollycoddled us we would suffer more because we would not develop strong personalities. God gave us free will for a reason.