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Why does God allow Suffering?

over 10 years

I am going to summarize what is linked below.

Basically Satan questioned God's right to rule mankind. Since then many men have questioned God's right to rule mankind. Man tries to rule themselves, and look at the results. We have a multitude of corruption, hypocrisy, and evil, all from our leaders no less! With time, this evil world will end up destroying itself, which is what God will step in to stop, after finally proving that Mankind is incapable of ruling itself.

Matthew 24:21,22 "21 for then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again. 22 In fact, unless those days were cut short, no flesh would be saved; but on account of the chosen ones those days will be cut short."

Read paragraphs 11-18 from the following link.

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-teach/why-does-god-allow-suffering/

Any questions I will be happy to answer, knowing full well that this is the internet :)

Also for answers to other questions take a look at these:

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/introduction/

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-teach/

over 10 years

QRich says


b0oty says

native americans have it made in canada. They get money every month more for every child and schooling completly paid for and better employment opportunities im sure theres more. Oh no taxes. Bleh.


But like....50 percent of their population was murdered and sent to hell...

Is it worth it?


GOTEM
over 10 years

TheFisherman says

According to the Christian goD... we're all inbred.


To be fair in any situation we are all inbred a little bit. Creation/Evolution doesn't change this.
over 10 years
If we fits we sits - canada
over 10 years

b0oty says

native americans have it made in canada. They get money every month more for every child and schooling completly paid for and better employment opportunities im sure theres more. Oh no taxes. Bleh.


But like....50 percent of their population was murdered and sent to hell...

Is it worth it?
over 10 years
B0oory why you complain? Your kind drove them out of their land.

Stahp whining prs.
deletedover 10 years
Actually my theory is he made gay people so that gay couples would be able to take care of orphaned children since they can't have their own. It balances it out. Orphan in the village? Let the gay couple take care of them! :)
over 10 years
According to the Christian goD... we're all inbred.
over 10 years
native americans have it made in canada. They get money every month more for every child and schooling completly paid for and better employment opportunities im sure theres more. Oh no taxes. Bleh.
over 10 years
Actually nah. GoD made people gay just to control the population.
deletedover 10 years
God made rainbows.

Gay people are secretly rainbows

God made gay people

Therefore, it can be assumed, god loves gay people. Or hes indifferent to us equally as much as all other people lol.

Your logic is invalid.
over 10 years
At least native Americans are allowed to have casinos in their reservations.
over 10 years

BeauTYful says

God never "hid" himself from anybody. It always has been man who has hidden from God, since the Garden of Eden after Adam sinned and hid himself with fig leaves. God leaves clues behind of his existence, his mercy and his love in all of creation, this earth, the universe, the living things, all physical and moral laws and our very being. He did so, such that nobody can claim to have not known or seen God, for God's presence is manifest all around us.


Yeah you're right, they were worshipping the Sun and , not because they were ignorant, but because they were intentionally hiding themselves from salvation.

Good post.
over 10 years
Actually I lied.

God hates Native Americans more than blacks. He hates them so much I forgot they existed.


We're only God's second most hated group.
over 10 years
God loves homosexuality.
over 10 years
gay
over 10 years
God never "hid" himself from anybody. It always has been man who has hidden from God, since the Garden of Eden after Adam sinned and hid himself with fig leaves. God leaves clues behind of his existence, his mercy and his love in all of creation, this earth, the universe, the living things, all physical and moral laws and our very being. He did so, such that nobody can claim to have not known or seen God, for God's presence is manifest all around us.
over 10 years
thanks be to god
over 10 years

spankyham says


Edark says


spankyham says

If God is real, God is dead.

God would have the power to kill God.
God would have the knowledge that his free creation would never be free with God existing.
God would love his free creation enough to kill God.


wow this is deep


That's what she said.


Amen.
over 10 years
go poo on a pizza spankyham
over 10 years

Edark says


spankyham says

If God is real, God is dead.

God would have the power to kill God.
God would have the knowledge that his free creation would never be free with God existing.
God would love his free creation enough to kill God.


wow this is deep


That's what she said.
over 10 years
i think christianity is OK

as a white man
over 10 years

QRich says

The entire idea of Christianity is stomach turning pretentiousness.

Especially as a black man.

It makes me sick that the African-American community has been fearmongered into so heavily integrating this within our culture.

Thousands of years ago, while God was apparently performing undeniable acts of the Divine in the Middle East, he apparently hid himself from the Africans, allowing them to worship many gods through no fault of their own.....they all went to hell.

So to remedy this, after thousands of years the merciful omnopotent master decided to enslave a portion of the African community and finally allow them to be saved(or be killed) by being converted by their wonderful white slave masters.


Alas, it is no wonder the whites saw and many still do see blacks as second class citizens. Even their precious God did apparently....and he can do no wrong. Ergo racism and classism is perfectly justifiable.


i like the dramatic black man sentence and how you put it separate
over 10 years
B0ory lemme post in ur tred
over 10 years
Eff'd us all*
over 10 years

spankyham says

If God is real, God is dead.

God would have the power to kill God.
God would have the knowledge that his free creation would never be free with God existing.
God would love his free creation enough to kill God.


wow this is deep