Christians: Can God give you free will AND eliminate suffering, since he's omnipotent?

Question

You would have to say yes, so then the question becomes: "Why doesn't he want to do that?"

Answer 1

He could have, but He didn't

Answer 2

Te Biggest Question from non believers these days is "Why do Chrisitians Suffer?" But Christians Suffer because God knows that the Righteous can take the suffering and lets us learn from our mistakes when we suffer. He can give us free will and eliminate suffering but with free will there is always going to be sin. And with Sin there is always going to be suffering.

Answer 3

Yes, God could give us free will AND eliminate suffering ... but we need suffering, we need to suffer to know what it feels like, what to do to 'fix' it so we don't suffer, and to know that if we can hurt that bady so can others ... and all of this is because this life is like going to school, and we won't know our 'jobs' until after our life here is over and we are in Heaven and are ready to hear 'the rest of the story.'

Answer 4

Of course He can, which He has promised to do soon.
Revelation 21:3-5

3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”
5 And the One seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new.” Also, he says: “Write, because these words are faithful and true.”

Answer 5

Nope... the two are mutually exclusive. Omnipotent doesn't include creating logical fallacies or impossible situations. Example: Can God make it both hot and cold at the same time. That is the equivalent of what you ask.

Answer 6

Yes, He can. But . . .
He gives us free will, but we do have to pay for our mistakes. We suffer to learn from our mistakes, like everyone else.
We would continue to make terrible mistakes, and never grow and learn from them if there were not consequences.
I am glad about that.
Like - I will never, ever again touch a hot burner with my hand since I was very little and did it, because it hurt very bad - I learned from it!
I've learned a lot of hard lessons in my life (I'm still learning), and I've grown from it and have obtained a fair amount of wisdom as well. I will continue to learn and grow wiser with every action/reaction sequence in my life - good and bad.

Answer 7

God is omnipotent, not imaginary. He does indeed obey certain logical laws. And your proposition violates them.

However, suffering is not without purpose. It is the only way we can grow into true adults. Sorry if you wish to remain a baby forever, that's not God's plan.

Answer 8

God is surely omnipotent, but that does not mean He cannot chose to give man freedom to makes choices. And Scripture records man resists God's call (Prov. 1. In a real way God gives us freedom to choose to do contrary to His holy will (2Pet. 3:9).

He that will know and show love must be able to choose, but choice is meaningless unless there is sometime to choose between. We may question the love of a man for his wife if he never met another women, but if he stays faithful despite some competition, then it makes it more manifest that his love is true. In the case btwn God and the devil, God offers "plan A" for your life, and has a proven benevolent character, whereas the devil offers "plan B, " and has a proven malevolent character, being driven by selfish resentment, and he attracts those of like mind. As Jesus stated, "The thief [satan] cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

As God allows us to make choices, so we must accept the consequences, but in this it is God who actually restrain evil in the world, and if He did not, then it would go down like a roller coaster (we seem to be nearing that time: 2Ths. 2). And when He does allow evil, it is for a purpose, as stated above, and He will make good come out of it for those who want the "light", even Christ. .

God has given us both good things and good laws, but we have broken His good laws and misused His good things, thereby incurring His just punishment. But which led to God giving the most costly gift He could give, someone uncreated, His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ! Who in turn "who loved me, and gave himself for me" (Gal. 2:20) dying for our sins and rising again, so that all who choose Him over sin, and receive Him as their Lord and Savior, can receive eternal life! That is giving.

What you do with Jesus reveals what you truly love, and where you will spend eternity. Choose Jesus - Choose Life! Thanks .

As far as God's omniscience, that is a mystery.

Answer 9

No he can't do both.

Sometimes my free will can cause suffering on your part. To take away suffering he would have to take away the free will.

Consider the free will of the man that uses it to commit murder. Suffering is the result.

Consider the free will of a man that chooses to accept what Jesus Christ did for him on the cross. That man surrenders his free will to God in exchange for eternal life.

Answer 10

free will leads to suffering...

we have the choice to suffer, or to make others suffer.

Jesus suffered, by his own will. And those who tortured him, did so freely.

if God were to eliminate suffering, he would have to eliminate free will.

Answer 11

We can't know the "whys" of God. If we did that would make us equal to Him and that would be a disaster to think God isn't any smarter than the smartest of us! We can only know that He has been just and trust in that