Why does God wanna make me suffer forever?

Question

I don't understand why he creates so much suffering and deaths. Why he will make you suffer for eternity, but then proclaims himself as the face of good.

Answer 1

it is a natural part of human evolution.

Answer 2

God never intended for us to suffer, although it was the known punishment for disobedience.

Its sort of like you tell your child do not eat a cookie before dinner, or you will not get to ride your bike for a week.

We do not want our child to be unable to ride their bike for a week, but we have set the punishment is they disobey.

Now, the child goes ahead and takes a cookie before dinner. We must follow through with the pre determined punishment, or the child will never believe us again and future rules will be ignored and disobeyed.

The punishment that was brought into this world for the original disobedience to Gods word will come to an end, we have seen the atonement for the punishment and are now awaiting the end of it.

Once this happens, knowing what I know now, I certainly do not want to openly disobey Gods word again.

Parents are not bad, although it would seem that they are to the child going through the punishment that is lasting much longer than the perceived crime.

Answer 3

God does not create suffering, he simply allowed you to have free will to decide what you wanted to do with your life. You choose whether you suffer for eternity or not by the chices you make as a daily thought.

Answer 4

A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?

Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."

Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.

When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.

So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.

With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.

Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.

The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.

For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?

If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.

I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.

Answer 5

"god" doesnt create suffering and death, and he's not going to make you suffer for eternity.
We don't need make-believe gods (or devils) to account for the suffering in the world, we humans do just fine all by ourselves at making people suffer and killing people.

Look in the mirror -- YOU are the face of both good and evil. YOU are the only one who can decide how to live your life, not some god made up by hebrew sheep-herders in their ignorance and fear.

Answer 6

Absolutely he will not make you suffer for eternity! If heaven (and then the new earth) with him doesn't sound good to you, you can choose to just die and become ashes for eternity. Look at Malachi 4:1-3 "For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings, and ye shall go forth and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts." No need to be angry or afraid! Just make a choice: Alive forever and happy, or, just ashes forever.

Answer 7

The worst thing God does to us humans is allow us to have free will. What happens to us is directly related to free will. The choices we make are the choices we have to live with. God doesn't make me suffer or punish me all the time and I don't think He does to a lot of other people either. Check your heart and talk to Him about it....He can handle any questions you have.

Answer 8

I posted a question like this last night, and all I got was bashing from alot of religious freaks that don't seem to care about anyone who is looking for help unless you, yourself believe in God. So, I deleted my question. Well, I do ( believe in god ) but, it would be nice to get support from people that are supposed to help others and not put them down for questioning faith. They acually made me feel worse than better

Answer 9

God did not create suffering and death. it came when we sinned, or turned away from God. God provided a way out of suffering and death, however, which makes him good.

Answer 10

Man is the cause of his own suffering, if you suffer forever that is your choice. God sent His only Son Jesus to save you, if you reject Him blame only yourself.

Answer 11

How did it come to you that God is claiming to be good ?
Religions claim such things, and talk about God to explain everything, the good and the bad.
Forget God, and move forward to help yourself and build yourself a nice future.
Forget about the rest of the world, and concentrate on yourself.