so much pain and suffering in the word. Why would a so called God, let people suffer in such ways?\nI don't get it, and not sure what to think anymore. \nMy so called faith is gone. I say when we die we die and that is it. There is no heaven, no hell, when it is over it's over. So many questions. What do all of you think?
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Have to love christians - follow god or you will suffer for eternity. Please, give us a break with all of your religious crap. Nothing like trying to scare people into believeing something.
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VERBAL    DIARHEA!!\n\n\nNothing is sacred,,,,prove it oh GOD  we have waited for two thousand years, enough is enough!\n \nIF THERE WAS A GOD THERE WOULD BE NO HURT\nTHERE WOULD BE NO PAIN\nTHE SUFFERING WE FEEL WHEN WE HAVE BEEN  HURT IS NOT  FAIR.\n\nI had bad news just three hours ago and this confirms the fact that there is no GOD!!!
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Where is God when it hurts.\n\nThis is one of those awful situations, why do bad things happen, why does God allow sufferring? \n\nI don't exactly know the answer, but I do know that God wants you to rely on him to get through it, because he can bring healing and wholeness, I know this as first hand experience, I was going to walk away from God and not look back and he gently showed me he loved me and had a better plan. \n\nFaith is believing the what God has revealed trusting him, with out outside influence. \n\nTrust God he loves you and your friend who suicided. I am so sorry for your loss and that it still causes you pain.\n\nCast all your cares on God, for he cares for you. Allow him to heal you.\n\nYou are so special and God has a plan and purpose for your life.
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Well first of all I believe that all things happen for a reason. Second of all we all are tested in life. God's children are under his protection. God will not allow us to go through more than he knows we can handle. \nThings on earth that we go through are test that we must face. God does not want anyone to "Suffer". He would rather for us all to be saved and receive his gift of eternal life and fall into his hands of protection. This way we know that when we die we will no longer suffer. We will all be happy. No more sorrows and tears.\nBut if people think they are suffering now....I hate to see what they think when they don't except Christ into their lives and serve him...because believe it or not, the end is coming. God will come like a thief in the night...without warning. In Hell there is going to be more suffering than there were on earth. That is a promise.
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If you are trying to get at "Why are there disasters?" or "Why do bad things happen to good people?", then here is my response.\n\nGod loves each one of us (even those of us who don't accept His sacrifice, Jesus) and because this love is just so huge, He is fair.  He doesn't force anyone to love Him.  He lets us choose.  So, why did the sweet lady get her purse stolen?  Because that robber has the same choice that we all make: do we follow what God has told us in His instructions to us (the Bible), have we listened to Jesus and allowed Him to pay for our sins, and have we daily allowed the Holy Spirit to rule our lives?  \n\nSo because we all (even dedicated, born-again Christians) make mistakes, and fall away from God and His word, WE are choosing to live for Him or against Him.  God did make everything perfect- He said that it was after every day- even the sixth day when He made man.  \n\nTo put this all in perspective, though, this life is just a moment in time compared to eternity with Christ.  When we have a bummer week in this life, it seems to last for so long, but 10 years later, we only remember a bit of it.  Same is true when we will be praising God or be banished from His presence for eternity.  Then that will be perfect.  For always.  No more tears.  I have already been praying for you.
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First of all, I apologize on behalf of Donald Shaw.  I thought his response to your question was absolutely terrible, and very un-Christian.  \n\nI was dismayed that, instead of sharing his faith with you and trying to bring Christ to you, he chose words that would serve no other purpose than to alientate you and push you away.   Trust me, not all of us Christians are like that.\n\nNow, in response to your question:\n\nGod can (and does) effect His forgiveness in any way He wishes.  He's God.  He can do whatever He wants.\n\nSo why did He have His Son suffer and die for our sins?  \n\nOne reason is that this was predicted in the Old Testament.  The OT speaks of a "suffering servant," a human Lamb of God who -- like the lamb sacrificed each year by the ancient Jews on the Day of Atonement -- would die for us and take our sins with Him. \n\nSecond, human nature being what it is, it's not enough for us to read something (like "your sins are forgiven") and then believe it.  We human beings need visuals.  We need proof.  For us, seeing is truly believing.  \n\nAnd seeing Christ suffer and die the worst form of execution in the history of capital punishment -- for us! -- is truly believing.  \n\nWhy else would anyone, let alone the Son of God, willingly put Himself through that?   He certainly didn't do it for nothing.  He definitely didn't do it for Himself.  \n\nHe did it to conquer sin and death.  And for those who believe in Him, that's what He accomplished.
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look are religion does not worship death, we worship god, godhead three in one, father, spirit, son. think about this logically, god made tI'me for us to use, do you honestly believe god has a time, if you live life for eternity, what would time mean? this lifetime that you choose to live freely, is a blimp to god "time wise" death is only the beginning definitely not the end. so choose it wisely because one day you will stand before god and confess your sins, and tell him why you chose to do so. \nim not trying to criticize anything I'm just trying to help sorry if i offended you in any way, i apologize
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You know - this is a lot like whisper down the lane.  Let's stop for a minute and think about this stuff rationally.\n\nFrom where I am sitting, I have found that there is no devil beyond our own worst emotions - and there is no hell beyond being steeped in our own worst emotions.  As far as I can see, we humans are running the show - but more like a bunch of college students on our own independent course of study.  We come, we learn, we go - we very likely come back again.\n\nSome deaths are tragic - and some have far reaching implications like nothing else in this world.  Some deaths are welcome - there comes a time when the journey is over, don't you think?\n\nGod is a little easier to understand if you think of it as the energy that powers this existence more than some old guy in the sky using us like Barbie dolls.  We all come here of our own choosing to learn something specific, not to be coddled and live in a paradise and do nothing.  It's meant to be a challenge.\n\nPeace!
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Interesting how so many people quote a different part of the bible without dealing with the fact that there is a clear contradictino here.\n\nTHis guy posted a verse that says basically, ask and you shall receive. Not "I'll think about it", but you shall receive.  And you all quote verses saying "not so fast".  Well, which is it? Can we move mountains with faith? Only if it's for a good cause? What?
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From one who has attempted suicide twice--your revelation is wacko.  We can't know something God doesn't want us to know.  God is omnipotent (all powerful).  You can't out think God.  And by the way most weird revelations, if they don't match up with the word of God are straight from Satan himself.  People commit suicide because they fell hopeless and helpless and Satan wants them to feel that way.  He wants you dead.
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No, no, NO!\n\nWe hear about some poor person who died horribly after being tortured, or after suffering painfully from disease such as cancer or AIDS, or a baby who dies painfully, and any decent human being says "They didn't deserve that..."  But God, according to the Scriptures of various religions, thinks they did.  According to the scriptures and Christian/Jewish/Muslim belief, He knew about it, He could have prevented it, but He chose not to.  Disagreeing with God might be evil, but speaking for myself, I would have if I could have.  If that's evil, so be it.\n\nSo it seems that God is not as caring about humans as we were led to believe - assuming you accept a literal interpretation of the Bible.  So perhaps that is why He (and some of his followers) are so insensitive to the suffering of humanity, and would condemn even good people to eternity in hell.  In His viewpoint, apparently, they do deserve hell.\n\nI do not believe that anyone, let alone loving, charitable people who have not followed a particular religion's doctrine (such as saying the "sinner's prayer") deserves an eternity of torment.  That is one of the reasons that while I remain a spiritual person, I no longer identify myself with organized religion, including Christianity.
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I believe you are very right in alot of new or unfed Christian hearts. We get complacent and don't read The Bible and get refreshed on what EVERY follower of God had to go through! Paul had the thorn in his side, Stephen got killed, all were mocked! Look at poor Job, what a price to pay! When we really start to follow The Good Shepherd's voice just know that He's going to lead you into "The valley of the shadow of death" at some point in your life to test your faith in Him(with good right!). Good question and point to make, friend! I hope that helps you. God bless.
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Mr. King is absolutely correct on this one. This is a way of thinking that many people embrace wholeheartedly. Sadly, thinking like this removes much of the concept of "personal responsibility" from the equation of the human condition.\n\nOnce one starts thinking like this, all good can be attributed to god, and all evil blamed on the devil. It's very convenient and allows the person who thinks like this to sit back on their laurels and wait for Judgment Day. \n\nOnce you resign yourself to the idea that suffering cannot be alleviated (except by such things as the sacrifice of Christ [which does little to ease day-to-day suffering]), it's far to easy to not attempt to solve problems in the world.\n\nThis is certainly not to say that there are not many Christians who go out of their way to do what they can. In fact, most of them are pretty bent on doing their share. \n\nHowever, in my opinion, this type of thinking does diminish personal efforts to right greater wrongs.
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Not easily.  It wasn't a completely coherent question.\n\nThe area of pain and suffering is a longstanding issue in the question of the existence of a loving God.\n\n"If good not God, if God not good" goes back a long way.\n\nFor me, that some can believe in spite of terrible suffering and injustice is rather more evidence for the ability of humans to have faith than in the existence of a loving deity.
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I feel your burden, this world has changed a lot in a short period of time. I am a believer in Christ, my faith is stronger as the world gets worse. You can feel the dark looming heaviness of things getting worse before getting better. I thank God for my faith. My husband is not a believer and I continue to pray for him. He is aware of the ads we see for upcoming movies, they are all so gory and evil. He is wondering as well as so many of us with what is going on in this world. I can only believe more people will receive salvation as time goes on. We live in such an obnoxious world that I don't think the rude people are laughing as hard as they used to. Just keep your eyes on Christ and everything will fall into place. God Bless to you and yours.
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I'm so with you on that one!! Everything starts and ends with God. But people are people.... Sad but true. It makes me sick to hear people mock their own Creator. They're playing with fire!Literally!
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Interesting scripure. But I'm also interested in this: the term 'last days' has been mentioned, and keeping in mind two things: the lord's overwhelming power to stretch and shrink time, combined with the fact that the last 2000 years there have been scoffers like mentioned above, when exactly will these 'days' end? This could take thousands of years, or be in a minute. But in that very minute a 'scoffer' *could* convert to the true faith, so if the lord is truly patient, he'd wait that minute too, or those thousands years, else it wouldn't be fair, I'd say.\n\nAnd tell me this: I am no scoffer, but in your eyes I'd probably be. But which of my desires are actually evil? My strongest desires are that people all over the world be stopped by blind judging other people, that people actually think before they act, that they take other people in mind when they take decisions that might effect them, in short that they respect other people and let them be. Another desire of mine is that helping people develop themselves, seek out their potentials, and enhance them, that they enjoy living in this beautiful world, and teach other people to enjoy too.\n\nBut since I don't need Jesus to actually do this, I am truly an ungodly man and I shall be destroyed by your lord.\n\nIf I'm to be judged by someone who doesn't look at my actions or my desires behind them, but at my lack of faith, and still wants to destroy me, please, let him do his thing, for I have nothing to be ashamed of and I rather live in hell knowing I have done right, than living in heaven for being a hypocrite.