Questions: Pain, Suffering, Evil, and God!

I ADMIT IT!!!

• I have had a lot of questions that have plagued me for a long time

  • about pain, suffering, evil, and God!

• I have seen (first person) or heard and read about

  • Christian men and women (young and old)
    • faithful to Jesus Christ,
      • active witnesses for Christ,
      • righteous in their lifestyle choices,
      • selfless in service to others,
      • regular and authentic worshipers,
    • loved by all, and then
      • fall ill and die,
      • drown at a Church outing or swimming in a home pool, or 
      • killed in gruesome road accidents, sometimes
        • while out or soon after evangelizing, or
        • while going about their normal business;
        • leaving behind grieving
          • (sometimes young) families,
          • congregations and the church at large,
        • while their ‘less worthy’ and sometimes criminal compatriots
          • live on!

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• I have read about 

  • how about five million Jews (‘God’s people’)
    • were killed in the second World War;
  • how over two hundred thousand people
    • were killed during the Tsunami in Asia in 2004,
  • how hundreds of thousands (including many innocents) were killed during
    • World War I, World War II,
    • Genghis Khan Wars, Alexandra the Great wars, Roman Empire Wars,
    • wars of Independence in US, India, Nigeria, Pakistan,
      • in South America, Africa, Asia, East Asia, Europe,
      • in civil wars and terrorist plots all over the world, etc. etc.

• I/We have seen TV/Video clips of infants and babies 

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• struggling with cancer and other horrible diseases
• that adults find it difficult to cope with, much less little children

• born with birth defects
  • (blind, deaf, without limbs, joined with other children etc.)

• I/We have seen the crooked and the unrighteous

  • get rich and powerful
    • by engaging in ruthless, unethical, and evil schemes,
    • swindling their customers, investors, and society as a whole,
  • beat the system instead of paying for their crimes,
  • appear to continue on with their lives
    • after destroying the lives of others
      • including family, trusting friends, and associates.

• I/we have also seen

  • the poor remaining poor
  • the sick remaining sick
  • the rebellious child remaining rebellious
  • the marriage not becoming healed
    • even after a lot of prayers!

 PAIN, SUFFERING, AND EVIL, GOD! QUESTIONS?!!

I CAN NOW SAY THAT I HAVE ANSWERS THAT SATISFY ME AND I WANT TO SHARE THEM WITH YOU.

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