Why Would God allow!

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Why Would a Good God allow suffering?

Before you share your thoughts. This is not a question that I am asking you personally. Its a question that is regularly asked in general for such a long time. So please don't share your thoughts to answer as if its me asking.

In our world of pain, where is God? if he is good and compassionate, why is life often so tragic? Has he lost control? or if he is in control, what is he trying to do to me and others? These and many more questions that are asked in the world today even by practicing Christians all over the world. Maybe its you that is asking these questions.

There are some people have chosen to deny God's existence because they cannot imagine a God who would allow such misery. Some believe that God exists, but they want nothing to do with him because they don't think he could be good.
Others have settled for a belief in a kindly God who loves us but has lost control of a rebellious planet. Still others cling tenaciously to a belief in an all-wise, all-powerful, loving God somehow uses evil for good. Sounds pretty far fetched hearing that some people would or could believe in God in those ways.

As we search in the bible, we discover that it paints a picture of a God who can do anything he chooses to do. Sometimes he has acted in mercy and performed miracles in behalf of his people. at other times, though, he has chosen to do nothing to stop tragedy. He is supposed to be intimately involved in our lives. Yet at times he seems deaf to our cries for help. in the bible, he assures us that he controls all that happens, but he sometimes lets us be the targets of evil people, bad genes, dangerous viruses, natural disasters.

If you are like me, you long for some way to put together an answer to this puzzling issue of suffering. I believe that God has given us enough pieces of the puzzle to help us trust him even when we don't have all the information we would like. The Bible, we can see that the basic answers of the bible are that our good God allows pain and suffering in our world to alert us to the problem of SIN, to direct us to respond to him in faith and hope, to shape us to be more like Christ, and to unite us so that we will help each other.

Lets make this a good study in hope to give direct, purposeful and meaningful answers to the questions regarding Why God allows suffering in the world today. Please no derailing, or defusing or leading astray. Let this be a good thread to study to gain good knowledge without fights and arguments. Please give scripture to back up your thoughts and comments thank you.
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Job asked God that very question - and God never gave him the answer. He only revealed more of Himself.

Maybe that is the lesson. That in all suffering, we should look for the ways in which God wants to reveal more of Himself in a personal way during your suffering.
 
point is He Allows Life! He Gloriously Meets! choices, outcome. One.
 
I agree Job did ask the very same question. Hence why we need to help those who are new to Christianity who don't know about this area to help them learn. Hence why I did say that I was not asking this personally, though I posted a thread and blog about this subject more so for a study to the new Christians who are asking those types of questions. But people didn't read the first part of my thread properly, in which many do so on many occasions, lol its all good, But thank you for your comment all the same.
 
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