QUESTION OF THE WEEK 9.2 : If there is a God why is there so much suffering in the world?

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There is no simple way to give a direct answer to this question. However in my own perspective, here are a couple of reasons I think that there is so much suffering in the world, despite the claims of a God being In charge of all our activities. The first reason I would like to talk about, is "we humans being the sole creators of our own problems". Here is a really good instance: the way we treat the earth carelessly, we have watched the earth go from green to brown right before our own eyes and have done little or nothing about it, yet we keep preparing for war, and my question all the time is whom are we fighting actually? Within the last two years, the world we used to know drifted even further away from us as the corona virus attacked us without remorse. And we as all know it all began because we refused to do what was right, and in the end we payed and are still paying the cost for our actions. We always pride ourselves as the masters of this universe, yet we show little care to place we are supposed to protect at all cost.

Secondly, another reason why I think there is so much suffering in this word is the fact that we lack compassion towards one another. Yes, it is true that no one owes each other anything; however, my argument with this statement is where exactly do we draw the line in all of these? Does it mean that anyone among us who has it better should strictly mind he's/her business? We must all remember that what affects one affects us all. One person can't solve all the problems of the world, but that little genuine act of kindness can change a life or lives forever and make great impact.

Another reason on my mind, is that I think that somehow we are following the natural path of nature, in terms of the natural disasters that occur, (not the ones aided by our own action), sicknesses, death and so on, through out the course of history, we have always had harsh events some even allot more scarier than what we have today and these was before man was recorded to ever exist scientifically. Could it be that we are witnessing a cycle that has been programmed to occur even before we arrived here?

In conclusion, permit me to take our minds on a little ride in history. If you have payed a carful attention to various religion stories around the world from different religions, you would find a common trait amongst them all and this is that at some point, some being came to meet a certain group of people, stayed with them for some time, taught them about several thing, and finally left them physically. From this little narration I gave I want us to pin point a particular key word which is " the being came and left".

Now before the arrival of a being to it's followers in religion stories, suffering already did exists and after the being left, suffering still continued since these facts have always been true, then why do we say God is powerful to save us from evil or harm and why do we pray to a God as well? Digging deeper, you will find out that the existence of God does not mean the exit of evil. Good and Evil are two powerful forces that we as human beings unfortunately found ourselves in. every one of us has a trait of both and sometimes we find ourselves conflicting on which path to follow. With that being said, we all can agree now at least that having a belief in God doesn't eliminate suffering and evil from this world.

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But! Answering this question has left a room for another question in my mind which is: if there is a God why does bad things happen to people, without any warning sign? Thinking about this again, I can't find of any answers to give other than to say that there are mysteries that even science can't answer and no amount of thinking or questions would satisfy our curiosity, however we all can agree that we as humans are free and the choices we make reflect of the actions that follow afterwards.

The existence of a God is to act as a moral guide to those who believe, and finally there are mysteries that we have no answers to yet.



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hmmm... I think I tried to answer this question earlier...

I have never been someone who believes in any particular God, but if God exists and has a few words to say to us, I reckon this is what he would say. Let’s all have good wishes, blessings from the universe… and God Bless you All (:

To my precious creation,

It’s nice to write to my one of my favourite creations, human who are, the wisest animal living in the earth, so hello social being and believe it or not I am God.

I know you hardly find time to think of me but I see you, don’t worry I don’t watch you suspiciously, I have too many other creatures and other elements to see after all but I am still there for you as I am for everyone.

I don’t interfere in your affairs and I don’t come directly to you since that is not possible for me, I have an infinite stuff to oversee.

For you, it’s all been “me, and I”, and many times I am disappointed with humans, you see I created you guys but I keep no control over you, but many times you guys are blind to realise the point of your lives. I hear so many people crying, asking me, scolding me, and cursing me for their life but my duty is only to be there to oversee the world not run it, because you guys run your life, you all are
naturally born free.

You don’t realise that what I gave you is life for you to live the way you choose to. You are the gift and life is a surprise and I always intend to be a mystery. I do reward and punish randomly, baby life’s beautiful but also harsh and though it’s painful, you got to face it and walk through it trusting all will be good in the end, if it’s not at least you did the best you could do and you will definitely gain something out of it.

You have my hand in all what you do my precious, you may doubt it, but when you do what is right, you will know what you are meant to do and you will find that strength to do wonders.

Good luck and believe you can make life beautiful and you will find me one day. You keep hope, life holds promise, reach out and be your best.

Regards,

God

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Quite an insightful perspective you have on the age-long God-talk issue. You seem to dwell more on the ontological argument for the existence of God while stylishly hinting on the interplay of the questions of determinism, free will and evolution. Very interesting topic actually, I really wish we could have a more elaborate discourse on the topic.

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Nice one. This is actually a philosophical question, " If God exists, why must evil persist"?

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The question is so deep, that it gets more confusing the more you try to make sense of it.

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