{"id":8815,"date":"2024-09-22T20:43:27","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T00:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=8815"},"modified":"2024-09-22T20:51:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T00:51:37","slug":"how-could-a-good-god-allow-so-much-evil-pain-and-sufferung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=8815","title":{"rendered":"HOW COULD a GOOD GOD ALLOW so MUCH EVIL, PAIN, and SUFFERING?"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOW COULD a GOOD GOD ALLOW so MUCH EVIL, PAIN, and SUFFERING ?<\/u><\/b><\/h1>\n

Various Texts<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u00a0by Malcolm Short<\/b><\/h2>\n

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Suffering Introduced<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Genesis 3:7 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.<\/p>\n

Genesis 1:31 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning\u2014the sixth day.<\/p>\n

Genesis 1:29 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Then God said, \u201cI give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Genesis 2:18 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Lord God said, \u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Genesis 2:15-17 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, \u201cYou are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.\u201d<\/p>\n

Genesis 2:25 (NIV)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

25\u00a0 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.<\/p>\n

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Suffering Endured <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Isaiah 45:7 NIV<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Psalm 18:30 (NIV)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

30\u00a0 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.<\/p>\n

Genesis 6:5-6 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled.<\/p>\n

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Suffering Overcome <\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Romans 3:5-6 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

But if our unrighteousness brings out God\u2019s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?<\/p>\n

Genesis 3:15 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cAnd I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Genesis 3:22-24 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cAnd the Lord God said, \u201cThe man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.\u201d So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.<\/p>\n

John 3:17<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.<\/p>\n

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Suffering Eliminated<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Ephesians 1:4-6 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will\u2014 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.<\/p>\n

Romans 6:23 ESV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.<\/p>\n

Matthew 16:25 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cFor whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Romans 5:1-5 NIV<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God\u2019s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.<\/p>\n

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