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

Hi there hivers, trust you all are having a wonderful day. I am thankful for this opportunity to participate in this contest, my name is Favour and I was unboarded yesterday by @deraaa this is my entry and also bear in mind that this is my second post on this platform.

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Firstly I would like to point out that believing God exists is a personal experience, many of us have been brain washed growing up about God with the stories I sometimes call myths. That is because I believe all those stories are made up not saying God doesn’t exist but I feel it’s not the way people write about it.
We all know seeing is believing but in this case it’s always a spiritual encounter. If you have not encountered God spiritually before it will be hard for you to easily conclude that there is God when you were not brought up that way. So that is why I hold no grudges against people that don’t believe God exists. It is a personal experience most of us might not be opportune to get for us to have that conviction that God exists but men of faith believe he exists.

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Secondly, I will be stating facts as to why suffering is inevitable in the world irrespective of ones beliefs about God existing or not.
Many people have lost sight of the Precious promises of God because of the sorrow and tragedy they see in the world. They say if God is love why does he allow such evil plaque on his children?. In answering that we could draw one of these three conclusions. Either God doesn’t care, he doesn’t exist or we have misconception of his plans and purposes.
Therefore we have been forced to blame the wrong source for the sufferings. In ll cor 4:4 Bible describes satan as “god of this world” and it was his influence that contributed to mans fall, by allowing the permission of evil. God is teaching man to hate the result of sin, and thus, to love him and his righteousness of own free will.

God created man so that they can obey him. if you obey you will live forever but disobey, you will die. Adam failed this test as a result all of mankind must experience the result of that failure. “The soul that sinneth, it shall die” but the Bible didn’t say suffer for ever, that is because “God is love” and his plan includes an escape from suffering by providing a corresponding prize for adams sin, which covers all his descendants (which is us in present day) “for the wages of sin is death” but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our lord. This counters the suffering on earth for the final reward is eternal life..

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for what would a man gain to achieve the whole world and lose his soul.
Also not to forget one of the main fruits of the spirit is LONG SUFFERING.. which is naturally gifted to us by the spirit. Doesn’t take away the fact that God loves us or that he exists.

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this.