2007-09-28 07:26:21 · 19 answers · asked by Eartha Q 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No but it proves that SIN does exist.
God created people with the choice to follow or reject him. If we aren't in line with what God wants, in some form or another, there will be suffering.
I don't think God created suffering but I do think that he knows that it is inevitable that some will reject peace and even try to take others' peace from them. In that event, God has the miraculous ability to not only comfort us through our own suffering, but to use our mistakes and time apart from him to create something beautiful that eventually brings about something good...either as a way to teach us how much we need him, or to use one person's suffering as another person's chance to show compassion to them.
2007-09-28 07:38:46 · answer #1 · answered by musicimprovedme 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Suffering is a consequence of ego. If you believe that god has/had an ego, maybe that's the problem.
OR - instead of believing that everyone has a individual relationship with god, believe that god has a relationship with HUMANITY. As in "god created the universe & everything therein & then said - it's all yours, don't make a mess of it, because you won't get another one".
Q. WHY, when people experience suffering, do they blame God ? Humans are to blame for suffering in 99.99999% of all suffering - blame humans, not god.
Do something specific about suffering, every day - perform some Random Act of Kindness. It can be the smallest thing - just smiling at the person at the supermarket checkout & making them feel better would be something anyone can do.
Namaste.
2007-09-28 07:36:32 · answer #2 · answered by dryheatdave 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Suffering is a big issue for all religions. I am not a theist myself but, if I were to give you an answer I would say no. Suffering does not prove that God does not exist. The question of suffering is, at least in my belief, rooted in the illusion of self that we have. Our attachment to the impermanent things - Thoughts and emotions like fear and hatred, our greed that keeps us holding on to the impermanent things in the world of forms; money, houses and lovers - constantly sets us up for suffering. This is because it is without a doubt that we will lose all of these things.
The ultimate attachment is, of course, life itself, We know from early adulthood that we will lose it but we hold on to it as if the inverse were true. We live in thoughts of a yesterday that is forever gone and a tomorrow that we can not possibly know.
This is suffering.
Suffering and the end of Suffering is what the Buddha taught. Check it out, it may help. And, by the way, you don't have to switch religions to benefit from his teaching. He does not want you to worship him.
2007-09-28 07:38:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jeezz Eartha I have to say you ask alot of question.. can't answer them all!!
Anyways to your question suffering only proves how much we have failed as humans by falling under the temptation of satan. But you may ask why God let's suffering continue. Where is God? If He is God and in charge of this Universe, why does He allow the world to continue on its course of destruction? Why doesn't he put an end to all the cruel and bizarre things happening in our society? Habakkuk the prophet questioned God and wondered where he was when bad things happened. There are some who would believe that God who is a God of love, mercy, and compassion, does not have a thing to do with the evil that exists in the world. And they wonder what does that say about His power, authority and involvement in the affairs of men.
Read the book of Habakkuk 1:2-3, 13 he asks the same questions:
How long oh Lord will I call for help, and thou wilt not hear? I cry out to thee, "violence!" Yet thou does not save. Why dost thou make me see iniquity, and cause me to look on wickedness?...Why dost thou look with favor on those who deal treacherously? Why art thou silent when the wicked swallow up those more righteous than they?
. Note when God is talking and when Habakkuk is. Highlight all his questions and the answers God gives. Maybe your faith will grow and you will understand better why bad things happen in the world and God is nowhere to answer your call.
2007-09-28 09:33:02 · answer #4 · answered by SMX™ -- Lover Of Hero @};- 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yet GOD is bigger than our suffering. We can have hope as we place our trust in Him - in His faithfulness and in His ability to work out in our lives His purposes that will be for our ultimate good and His eternal glory. In some way God uses suffering to transform ordinary people into vessels that are strong in faith, that are fit for His use, and that display His glory to the watching world. God really does exists.
2007-09-28 07:45:32 · answer #5 · answered by scaredykatrina 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After reading some of your responders it becomes clear once again that with the mention of the Holy name of God, Satan sends forth his own. Thus is the true nature of rebellion. Just as prosperity proves nothing with regard to God, neither does suffering.
2007-09-28 08:00:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Suffering has nothing to do with God. Suffering is caused by our own expectations and our own disapointments at the shortcommings of those expectations. Ego creates suffering, not God.
2007-09-28 07:34:36 · answer #7 · answered by nacsez 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Suffering proves that people are looking for god in all the wrong places. God is within all of us.
2007-09-28 07:31:48 · answer #8 · answered by Militant Agnostic 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It proves He does exist. We are here to be tested.
And if thou shouldst be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep; if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good. The Son of Man hath descended below them all. Art thou greater than he?
2007-09-28 08:32:24 · answer #9 · answered by Isolde 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, suffering proves pain exists. you can't prove something doesn't exist. you have to prove that it does. if you can't then most likely, it doesn't.
2007-09-28 07:32:48 · answer #10 · answered by just curious (A.A.A.A.) 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋