Why Does God Allow Suffering?????

Question

Pick One:

Answer 1: For Punishment Upon A Sinful World
Answer 2: To Bring Glory To Himself
Answer 3: I Don't Understand Suffering
Answer 4: I Don't Believe In Suffering

Here is what the dictionary says about suffering......

Suf·fer·ing – noun

1. To undergo or sustain (something painful, injurious, or unpleasant)
2. To experience; undergo
3. To endure or bear; stand
4. To permit; allow

[Related word: Passion; the sufferings of Christ on the cross and/or His sufferings subsequent to the Last Supper.]

[From Middle English: suffren, from Old French: sufrir, from Latin: sufferre]

Answer 1

Jesus Christ suffered volluntarily and innocently for our sins, and died on the Cross so that we could have everlasting and eternal life.

If one becomes a sharer in the sufferings of Christ, this happens because Christ has opened his suffering to man, because he himself in his redemptive suffering has become, in a certain sense, a sharer in all human sufferings. Man, discovering through faith the redemptive suffering of Christ, also discovers in it his own sufferings; he rediscovers them, through faith, enriched with a new content and new meaning.

This discovery caused Saint Paul to write particularly strong words in the Letter to the Galatians: "I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me: and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me". Faith enables the author of these words to know that love which led Christ to the Cross. And if he loved us in this way, suffering and dying, then with this suffering and death of his he lives in the one whom he loved in this way; he lives in the man: in Paul. And living in him-to the degree that Paul, conscious of this through faith, responds to his love with love-Christ also becomes in a particular way united to the man, to Paul, through the Cross. This union caused Paul to write, in the same Letter to the Galatians, other words as well, no less strong: "But far be it from me to glory except in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

The Gospel of suffering speaks first in various places of suffering "for Christ", "for the sake of Christ", and it does so with the words of Jesus himself or the words of his Apostles. The Master does not conceal the prospect of suffering from his disciples and followers. On the contrary, he reveals it with all frankness, indicating at the same time the supernatural assistance that will accompany them in the midst of persecutions and tribulations " for his name's sake". These persecutions and tribulations will also be, as it were, a particular proof of likeness to Christ and union with him. "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you...; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you... A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me they will persecute you... But all this they will do to you on my account, because they do not know him who sent me". "I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world".

Answer 2

The curious as well as the critics of Christianity ask this question. If God is all-powerful and all loving, then why does He permit evil and suffering in the world? Various answers have been given, but permanently settling the issue is impossible because so many of our answers raise further questions. Nevertheless, our lack of ability to answer the question perfectly does not mean that we cannot offer solutions. Of course, I do not assume to be able to answer these questions definitively, but I can offer some solutions.

First of all, it is possible that God has reasons for allowing evil to exist that we simply cannot understand. In this the Christian can have confidence in God knowing that His ways are above our ways (Isaiah 55:8-9). As the Bible says, the just shall live by faith (Hab. 2:4).

Second, God may be letting evil run its course in order to prove that evil is malignant and that suffering, which is the unfortunate product of evil, is further proof that anything contrary to God’s will is bad, harmful, painful, and leads to death.

God gave Adam dominion over the world (Gen. 1:28). When he rebelled against God, he set in motion an entire series of events and changed the very nature of man and creation. Both were affected by sin. Creation was no longer a paradise but bore thorns and thistles (Gen. 3:17-18; Rom. 8:22). People became sinful (Rom. 5:12; Eph. 2:3), who were haters of God (Rom. 3:9-12), etc. The only conclusion to such a situation is death. Jesus said, "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened" (Matt. 24:22).

Sin is rebellion against God and His created order, but God has not left us alone in this fallen world. He continued to enter this world--pointing us to Himself, to truth, to morality, purity, and love. He used the evil of the world (liars, perjurers, the envious, etc.,) to bring His Son to the cross so that we might have the opportunity to obtain eternal life. In this, God has not stepped away from fallen creation but has stepped into it by becoming Jesus. God works within the fallen world to effect change, and He uses fallen people to accomplish His will. In this, He is proving His sovereignty over evil, suffering, and rebellious people--proving that sin and evil are utterly futile and that He is worthy of honor and glory.

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Answer 3

There is no such thing as "God." It is a type from mythololgies, especially Roman and Norse, of which the derivation of the type of being means, "one that is immortal." Before any usurped the definition, and changed it to a name, there were much more rational explanations for any occurrences, as mankind developed through compilation of facts and statistics an intelligent, non-social-dependent ability to think each for himself.

"Cogito ergo sum."

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Answer 4

i've got faith in a a procedures better means yet i do no longer have faith this larger means has something to do with permitting suffering. i think of all people intend to make experience of suffering and discomfort via fact it basically sucks. human beings thank God whilst issues bypass properly and damn Him whilst issues bypass undesirable. instead of thanking the individuals of their lives and the stable options they made. whilst something is going undesirable or we see suffering happening we ought to consistently seem on the chain of activities that contributed to the suffering or settle for that stable and undesirable issues will ensue at circumstances for no reason. i've got faith we are all related and the ideas we make result human beings we don't even comprehend. It has no longer something to do with God it has to do with us.

Answer 5

God doesn't like suffering like us. People have free will and most suffering comes from attcks on others from other humans. In In the Bible it says that God comes to give us a full life and that we can live it abundantly so he does not like and allow suffering.

Answer 6

He doesnt. Read John 10:10

Answer 7

If god allows suffering, does he allow himself to suffer?
If he is all powerful, why does he allow us to suffer and say he is suffering too?
If he implies suffering is bad, why does he allow it?
Is he a purposeless god?
A purposeless god is no god.
To believe in no god is to believe in purposelessness.
Atheists are true believer.

Answer 8

If I suffer, I take it like a man and don't look for god to blame my misery on. Grow up.

Answer 9

1. Ignore the bible!
2. God does not get involved with us here, in my opinion.

Answer 10

Read Genesis, it explains it quite clearly and is very easy to understand