Does God forgive? If he does why people are suffering?

Question

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Answer 1

Suffering is the result of our choices or the result of others choices. Certainly, God is capable of destroying evil and suffering--but not without destroying human freedom, or a world in which free creatures can function. How do we as Christians respond to the problem of evil? With sorrow. With sadness. With revulsion. With perplexity. With questions that have no answers ... Each of us has had wrong thoughts, evil thoughts. Each of us has done something wrong — something evil. Why does God allow evil within us? None of us deserves to escape punishment, and yet God allows escape, forgiveness too. If we ask why there is eviland suffering, we should also ask why there is mercy. Let us fight against evil and needless suffering, starting with ourselves!

Answer 2

This is a really common question, "why people are suffering?" We do get forgiven, God can forgive anything when we ask for forgiveness. But sometimes consequences come from the bad choices we made. Sometimes suffering happen from other peoples choices and affect others around them. We also go through sufferings to help comfort others... We are able to relate to another and comfort them through what we may have been through.

Read 2 Corinthians 1. Especially verses 3-7 "Comfort in Suffering"

Answer 3

If you read in Gen. 3:17 after the fall, God cursed the ground for Adam's sake, So since that time until now this earth & all sickness is Caused by a curse, But God sent his son as a Perfect sacrafice, through a process of time that not only mankind can be redeemed, but also this earth, Now if you read in Rev. 22:3 this is after the milliennium all things then would have been redeemed back to God, even this planet, & in Rev. 22:3 it says And there shall be no more curse, ------Because by then all things have been redeemed back to God & there will be no satan left to cause sufferings, Sufferings does not come from God, but from satan, But God does let everything run it's course while we still are under the curse. But after Rev. 22:3 we will once again live on this earth without satan, because satan will be destroyed in the lake of fire, & then this earth & mankind will have a perfect earth as it was in the garden, but this time all evil spirits is destroyed in the lake of fire, wherefore there will never again be another downfall.

Answer 4

I've been diabetic since I was 4. If God exists, you're not important enough to care about. With an open mind and the health troubles of age, you're apt to realize this before you die.

Can you imagine how much a 4 year old cried when told he'd have to have shots 4 times a day for the rest of his life? Or that he's at premium risk for blindness? How about knowing that you may very well become impotent, unable to express the ultimate affection for the person you care most about? Can you imagine telling that to your child? I'm over it now (or as over it as I can be), but I don't forget. Should I be proved wrong and meet God, I've got something I'd like to tell him, and you can imagine what that is.

When you die, it's gonna feel like before you were born. Only a species with the individualism of intelligence would be arrogant enough to assume that the world wouldn't miss their presence. When religious people ask what happens after we die if there is no God, remember that their psychological blinders prevent them from even imagining a world without them. These blinders aren't religious, but the result of an evolution that resulted in a particularly individualistic yet intelligent mind. It makes no sense to ask what the world will be like after we die - it'll be the same, we just won't see it anymore.

Answer 5

Someone has to say it, and I guess it falls to me.

If there is a god responsible for creating the universe and everything in it, this being would be immeasurably beyond caring about one person's sorrows on this speck in the cosmos we like to call Earth. Let me ask you: Do you care anything at all about the suffering of a gnat caught by the breeze in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Of course not. Why would the creator of the universe care anything about you?

Books like the Bible, the Quran, the Book of Mormon -- their adherents claim they are works inspired by God, but they were written by mere mortals. No deity was involved; the proof can be seen in the countless errors and contradictions these books contain. No deity-inspired book would ever contradict itself.

Rather than worrying about future salvation, life after death, fiery pits of hell or pleasure-bringing virgins, we should all work today to make life on Earth better for everyone tomorrow than it was yesterday. End wars. End poverty. End starvation. End deforestation. End pollution.

Suffering happens. If God exists -- even if, as you ask, God forgives -- it seems obvious God isn't going to take any obvious action to stop suffering. It is up to you and me to do that. What have you done lately to ease your neighbor's suffering?

Praying to God, Allah, Krishna -- whoever -- clearly isn't the answer.

Answer 6

This isn't Heaven. Why don't humans help people that are suffering? Why does such a small proportion of the world have such a huge proportion of the wealth. Why does the west spend so much money on Cd's and DVDs when a child dies from the effects of poverty every three seconds. I don't think many of us are doing much. Why blame God.

Answer 7

Life is rough, people will suffer. It is an extremely challenging world, and it was meant to be this way. One should be willing to put up with a lot of hardship and duress, along with extremely hard work, in order to address serious problems and overcome them. Then, we will have a lot better world to live in. Just because thinking or connecting with the severe nature of a problem is mentally painful, should not stop you from working torward a solution. God does not solves problems of our making for us, he expects us to get strong enough spiritually to do it ourselves. Meditate/pray, do mind-body exercises, eat healthy, and don't over indulge. This will make you spiritually tougher.

Answer 8

The answer to this is simple. There is no god. We are brilliant, but terrified animals, living in a huge an dangerous universe. We created god to help calm our fears of danger and uncertainty.

The only thing which will relieve the suffering of the world is us. So let's get started. =)

Answer 9

God has more at stake than straightening out Adam's sin; there was a cosmic conflict that questions God's sovereignty before the universe.

And He has chosen to use restraint and allow SIN to manifest its ugliness; thus, when this controversy is over, the Bible says iniquity will not arise the second time.

He also has revealed the timing of this Cosmic Conflict, and hidden it in a Bible code. It proves Jesus as the expected Messiah, too. See http://abiblecode.tripod.com

Shalom, peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshua

Answer 10

Suffering does not come from GOD and does not reflect upon HIS abilities and willingness to forgive.. this is a old manmade doctrine that only the forgiven are porsperous..
If you will read the BIBLE you will see that many have suffered and died for GOD'S truth. and many will before HE returns.. so please do not relate suffering to GOD.. HE does not want anyone to suffer at all..
Sin is the power that causes suffering, and there is only one way to deal with it..and GOD can deal with it, but the timing has to be correct..we are not alone in HIS CREATION.. there many others who have watched from the beginning that are included in the timing..