if God loves us so much why is there suffering in the world?

Question

someone asked me and i kno the anwer but i cant put it into word for them so im asking for scriptures and some wise words pleeez...

Answer 1

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? (Gal. 6:7; Prov. 1:30-33) 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.—Rev. 12:12; Acts 10:38

How did suffering get started? Examination of the causes focuses attention on our first human parents, Adam and Eve. 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 God’s purpose for mankind. But God 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.—Gen. 8:21; Rom. 5:12.

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.

Why does God not do something to bring relief to mankind? Why should we all suffer for something that Adam did?

In the Bible, God tells us how we can avoid much suffering. He has provided the very best counsel on living. When applied, this fills our lives with meaning, results in happy family life, brings us into close association with people who really love one another, and safeguards us against practices that can bring much needless physical suffering. If we ignore that help, is it fair to blame God for the trouble that we bring upon ourselves and others?—2 Tim. 3:16, 17; Ps. 119:97-105.

God has made provision to end all suffering. He created the first human pair perfect, and he lovingly made every provision so that life would be pleasant for them. When they deliberately turned their backs on God, was God obligated to intervene so as to shield their children from the effects of what the parents had done? (Deut. 32:4, 5; Job 14:4) As we well know, married couples may have the joys that go with producing children, but they also have responsibilities. The attitudes and actions of parents affect their children. Nevertheless, God, as an expression of marvelous undeserved kindness, sent his own dearly loved Son to earth to lay down his life as a ransom, to provide relief for those of Adam’s offspring who would appreciatively exercise faith in this provision. (John 3:16) As a result, the opportunity is open to people living today to have what Adam lost—perfect human life, free from suffering, in a paradise earth. What a generous provision that is!


But why would a God of love allow the suffering to continue so long?

Have we benefited because he has allowed it until now? “God is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.” (2 Pet. 3:9) If God had immediately executed Adam and Eve, following their sin, none of us would be in existence today. Surely that is not what we would want. Moreover, had God at some later time destroyed all who were sinners, we would not have been born. The fact that God has allowed this sinful world to exist until now has afforded us the opportunity to be alive and learn his ways, to make needed changes in our lives, and to avail ourselves of his loving provisions for eternal life. That God has granted us this opportunity is an evidence of great love on his part. The Bible shows that God has a set time to destroy this wicked system and will do so soon.—Hab. 2:3; Zeph. 1:14.

God can and will undo all the harm that may come upon his servants in this system of things. God is not the one who is causing the suffering. But by means of Jesus Christ, God will raise the dead, heal obedient ones of all their illnesses, root out every trace of sin, and even cause former grief to fade from our minds.—John 5:28, 29; Rev. 21:4; Isa. 65:17.

We personally are anxious to have relief. But when God takes action, it must be in behalf of all who love what is right, not just a few. God is not partial.—Acts 10:34.

Illustrations: Is it not true that a loving parent may allow a child to undergo a painful operation because of beneficial results that can come from it? Also, is it not true that “quick solutions” to painful ailments are often only superficial? More time is frequently needed in order to eliminate the cause.

Answer 2

Well, depends on what you believe. If you believe in god or not, on what "kind" of god you believe: If you believe god interferes on our lifes or not, is s/he simply an observer?Or is s/he something that controls, to a point, or lives? Or is god just something created by men to give us some hope?
In my opinion, god has nothing to do with suffering. Humans suffer because it is part of human nature, of the world's nature, you know? for every good thing there must be its counterpart, if there is good, there has to be evil, or suffering, if there is a whole, there must be a "nothing". Also, if you think about it, if there was no suffering we'd never learn from our mistakes, if you examine your life the times in which you grow more as a person and learn the most is when you're suffering, our after you've suffered. You overcome an obstacle (ie, suffering) and learn something from it.

Answer 3

God does not cause suffering. The suffering in the world is the result of our actions. We are all free to choose our actions, but not the consequences or the outcome of those choices.

But, thru suffering and trials we can become stronger, we can gain perspective and knowledge. And if there was no suffering and sadness we would not know what happiness is either.

Answer 4

Sin and death came into the world thru Adam and Eve and passed from them to all mankind. But Satan did not stop with seducing them away from obedience to God. He then appealed to other angels to mingle with humans in an immoral way and some did. This produced unnatural, hybrid children who were very violent and brutish. Soon the whole world was filled with violence. Now, the natural humans reacted to the unnatural hybrids and God destroyed all but 8 who remained obedient. Yet, again, Satan continued to influence mankind and, of course, the sinful tendancies were still there. When Jesus threw Satan and all his demons out of heaven and down to the earth, things even got worse. Now, the demons are all confined here and cannot return to heaven. The Bible says, "Woe to the earth..." and woe it has been and will continue to be until Jesus turns his attention to the earth to clean it up. When the governments close all the false religions, you will know it has begun.

Answer 5

In the beginning God completely sustained His creation without blemish. That’s why it was perfect. He held every atom together in a perfect state. He kept the planets in their orbits. He kept animals from tripping and breaking their necks. He did not allow people to suffer and die.
Deuteronomy 8:4 gives us a little glimpse of how things might have been in the original creation. “Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.” God is omnipotent and perfectly capable of sustaining and protecting his creation.
When Adam sinned, however, the Lord cursed the universe. In essence there was a change and along with that change God seemingly took away a little bit of his sustaining power and allowed things like suffering and death into His creation. Now He permits bad things to happen—and this is a reminder that sin has consequences and that the world needs a Savior. Romans 8:22 says, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”

God took pleasure in all of His creation ("http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=revelation+4:11&version=NKJV"), but He loved people most of all. He allowed the created universe to deteriorate so we would see the consequences of our sin. If we did not see the consequences of our sin, we would never see that we need salvation from our sin, and we would never accept His offer of mercy for our sin. Most people easily recognize that there is a problem in the world. This can be used to show them that there is one who has overcome this problem of death and suffering—Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

Yes, we would all like to cast away all suffering, misery and grief, unfortunately, these are experiences which are common to mankind and often produce the times of greatest growth, humility, spiritual insight and compassionate experience.

God loved his Son and even he was not spared the greatest suffering of all (read when Christ prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, the night before his crucifixion when he paid for our sins) surely we are not as great or as perfect as Christ and should not expect to escape suffering.

Answer 7

I wish I knew the answer from GOD. Because I also feel why GOD let many people suffer, but the think I always do is Pray for my GOD to heal and bless people that are suffer. I Beleive our GOD is Mighty and nothing imposible for HIM.

Answer 8

Don't they have some wonderful ideas?! The children killed by the tsunami were not saved by an all powerful god who came to earth? Who said "suffer the little children to come unto me"!
Where do they get these ideas?

Answer 9

Because there is no "God" as you are thinking. Who or what started the process whereby the earth formed and life on it was able to start are evolve would not be interested in the life, death or suffering of one individual person.

Answer 10

Choas (suffering is apart) was woven in the the very fabric of the cosmos. Choas and Order coexist in order for us to realize there is consequences for our choices. The entire cosmos is designed to project us towards a trajectory of a better moral being.

We are to grow spiritual from our suffering. (James 1) We are to help others who have been through what we are going through.

Answer 11

The gift of life is the greatest form of love.
God only writes the genetic code up to the
point where water shows up.
After that, we are on our own.

The only thing I can imagine that would be
worse than Earthly woes, would be a utopia
void of hopes, dreams and failures.