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TOPIC: WHY DOES GOD LET US SUFFER?
Where is God when things go bad; where is He when there are disease
epidemics, wars, terrorism, or natural disasters, all of which bring
death? Is God a caring God; does He care that human beings
suffer? Should we blame God for the evil things that happen?
The answer is very simple so that even a
child can understand it. From the time of the beginning, human beings
have been given FREEDOM of CHOICE, and we humans and we alone have been
allowed the choice of doing things our own way (that option includes choosing
God) until the time of the return of Christ. We cannot reject God and
expect God to bless us because to reject God is to reject blessing; God will not force Blessing on us, we must choose to accept it from Him.
Note in Genesis 2:9 about the two
trees and how in 2:16-17
God gave His creation a specific choice. The two trees represented two
very specific choices and two very specific outcomes. The opposite of
Life is...death! Adam and Eve chose the opposite of Life, and so have
their descendants; and in doing so we show that we value death over
Life. We value the pursuit of knowledge rather than the Gift of
Life. Thus we have reaped what we have sown; we have not reaped the
ways of Life but rather what we have chosen, which is the ways of
death. To this very day, in our institutions of higher learning, in our
governments, in our very homes, we love knowledge more than Life, and we have
paid the price. We have rejected everything that God has offered us.
In ancient Israel's time, no man worshipped God voluntarily. No peoples
chose the way of Life. The whole world worshipped idols, knowledge and
strength. At that time God chose Israel to be a people who would
worship Him and often times made it clear when He compared what He wanted
them to do as opposed to what their neighbors were doing (see Deut. 7:6 or Deut. 14:2, for
example). Yet Israel continually resisted and rejected Him, literally
from the beginning as it shown in Exodus 32:7-8 and Numbers 32:13.
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