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Why Would A Good God Allow Suffering? (Video Insight)

Is God loving? Yes. Is He all-powerful? Yes. So why are there horrific levels of suffering throughout the world that both people of faith and those without faith seem to battle with equally? Frankly, it's impossible for our finite minds to make sense of it. We are left to trust in a God who uses everything--including the suffering--to ultimately bring about His good purposes.
 
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The idea of God using suffering to perform "surgery" on this evil world makes sense to me. That is not what we want but it helps to ease the pain of the suffering. Because, as you said, what do we do with our faith if we cannot grapple with the suffering of the world. Takes a lot of faith doesn't it ?
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I personally don't find this question wrong,...when you're looking through the heart, eyes, and mind of Christ. If we know that our lives are to please God and bring Him glory, what other way then. We would never need a Savior, if there was never trouble/ "suffering". It says in the word that He wants to take us from Faith to FAITH and from glory to GLORY. That means that everything cannot always go by the book and bad things only happen to sinners. Because He rains on the just as well as the unjust, He allows to go through sufferings (whether famine, persecution, diseases, etc) to increase our faith. To show that He is the GOD that can do all. I just believe because now days living in a instant gratification nation, we lack the patience to see his works manifested through the pain of suffering. We all know the story of JOB. A great man of GOD that we all hope we can endure tribulation like. Even upon losing it all and suffering with diseases, he waited upon GOD. This is why he is told from generation to generation. If we used Job's patience (which is the patience/ time of Christ), we would see that it all works towards them good of them that love the Lord and are called according to His purpose. But I believe that as son's and daughters of Christ, we must follow in Jesus Christ footsteps. If Jesus took upon our sins to save the world. He placed in the same position that we would have to take upon Adams sin, so that we could change the world. So because of Adams sin, and no actual fault of our own, we must bear the pain of sin. But Jesus Christ, being the Atonement, allowed us to be cleansed and follow His path of righteousness, and faith in Him. He told us that unless we know him in the fellowship of His suffering, we shall have no part with him. This means that unless we can trust in Him in every area of our lives, (the mountain tops and the valleys), then we shall not reign with Him.

Now I do understand that there are different types of suffering to consider, but all are to the glory of GOD. These scriptures should help make some sense to this question:

2 Corinthians 1:6- And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.

Philippians 3:10- That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

Colossians 1:24- Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:

Hebrews 2:10- For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Matthew 5:12- Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

John 15:20- Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Luke 6:22- Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.

Romans 8:35-Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36- As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37- Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38- For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39- Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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