2007-12-01 12:33:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?”
--Epicurus--
2007-12-01 12:37:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Suffering lets us rejoice in our peace. Without suffering we could not percieve peace. Since God is the source of all things, it only makes sense that suffering comes from God. What I don't understand is why some people never know peace and others never know suffering.
2007-12-01 12:46:00 · answer #2 · answered by Miribile 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not the source of suffering. His enemy is! Not only does He hurt with us, but He is also capable of eliminating suffering. So, if He wants to, AND He's capable, doesn't it make sense that He WILL eliminate suffering? It's right there in Revelation 21:3,4. Soon to take place! The question is, what to do we have to do to be worthy of seeing that prophecy fulfilled?
2007-12-01 12:44:20 · answer #3 · answered by aseptic technique 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are the source of our own suffering. do you realize how foolish it is to declare that God made a mistake? God can do anything but fail, that is why He nailed sin to a cross for our sakes... so that suffering would end when the kingdom of His Christ is established.
sin/suffering is the result of perverting God's perfection. if God being perfect made all things perfect, then free will is the element which makes us suffer. thats why the bible says in our weakness His strength is made perfect. we can't do it all, but God can, so we must depend on Him for the victory.
2007-12-01 12:39:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is Earth not Heaven..God is not the source of suffering, nor is He impotent to help.
2007-12-01 12:39:34 · answer #5 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope, suffering is the lack of God...unless yor "god" is a sadist.
Seperated from God you'd cease to exist though.
At times it seems like God has left you but he's only passing you through a trial so you get stronger.
2007-12-01 12:36:54 · answer #6 · answered by Cyber 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of the above!
Our ancestors in the Garden of Eden found life boring without evil, and EXPERIMENTED with the knowledge of good AND 'EVIL'!!!
God warned mankind that they would surely die, but they doubted Him. Essentially mankind gave dominion over the earth to the 'ENEMY', called in the Bible "the Prince of this world".
When we go to heaven, evil will NOT be allowed, so unrepentant intentional sinners can't get in. The alternative is too terrible to think about.
If evil men were in paradise, it would NOT be "heaven"!
Rather than "free" to sin in heaven, God will give us "freedom" FROM addictions and sin!
That is true freedom.
That is Our Father's all-knowing, all-wise & all-powerful parental LOVE!!!
If you insist on the right to sin, then to hell with you. Christians don't want "evil" ever again!
2007-12-01 12:52:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not the source of suffering, he devil is the source of all sickness and disease. When sin intered into the world through one man, everyone inherit the nature of sin. When Christ came, he destroy sin by shedding his blood for you and therefore sickness and disease is no more, the reason why people still get sick is because of the nature and we need to claim our health in Jesus Name.
2007-12-01 13:28:50 · answer #8 · answered by Dove 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God made robots some might have a case, but He does not which is why many can write blasphemy, and He is merciful, which is why many rebels against God are still breathing!
Rather than God being to blame, it is He who has given us good things and good laws to our own benefit, and freedom to choose btwn good and evil, but we have collectively misused His good things and broken His good laws to our own hurt and that of others (and made a mess of His planet). ]
God, however, is perfectly holy and just and will not allow Heaven to become like earth, and must and does punish sin, and those that die in their sins cannot dwell in the Holy City of God, but "shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death" (Rv. 21:8).
But rather than letting all mankind go on their own merry miserable way to Hell, helpless and unhindered, God calls all man to repent, as most incredibly, He has provided for our salvation on His expense and goodness, that of His only begotten Son Jesus Christ, who loved us and gave Himself for us.
It was Jesus Christ whom God the Father sent to be the Savior of the world (1Jn. 4:14), and " who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him" (Acts 10:38b). And
"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." (1 Pet 2:24).
"For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit" (1 Pet 3:18).
What you do with Jesus reveals what you truly love, and where you will spend eternity. Choose Jesus - Choose Life!
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2007-12-01 12:48:44 · answer #9 · answered by www.peacebyjesus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
G*D allows suffering, because HE gave us free-will.
Suffering is usually the result of Sin, our own or another's.
He will not intervene unless requested, out of respect.
2007-12-01 12:41:49 · answer #10 · answered by Robert S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Suffering is part of life.
2007-12-01 12:37:50 · answer #11 · answered by L.C. 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋