Why do innocent Children have to suffer and die?
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I am deeply sorry for your loss.\n\nI think this is one of the hardest questions to answer.  This is what nearly cost me my faith and my sanity.\n\nI've lost three babies and have no living children.  I have wanted children since I was very young.  I always though I would be a mom.\n\nI don't believe that they die because they are bad or because of any wrong they have done.  I don't even think it is a judgement of their parents.\n\nIt's hard to know who to blame when it happens and you want to blame someone.  And I did.  Mostly I blamed myself, and I thought of a million things I should have done differently.  It was those sinus pills I took or all that caffeine I had before I knew I was pregnant, or it was the time I slipped and fell in the grocery store.\n\nSome people will say Satan took your baby and some will say God took your baby.  So let's answer that first.  It's an answer that needs a little background.\n\nSatan brought sin into the world.  Sin brought death.  In that way, Satan is responsible for death.  It is his domain, and God allows it - for now.\n\nJesus came to redeem us.  He conquered death.  So even though Satan takes us out of the world (through death), Jesus takes us to be with God through redemption. \n\nBabies are sinless.  They go to heaven.\n\nOf course I would rather them be here with me.  I miss them.  But I know that they are safe and that God can keep them from ever feeling hurt or sadness.  They have joy now that I cannot imagine.  Even though I miss them terribly, I don't have to worry about how they are doing.  I know they are safe.\n\nIt took me several years to process everything and really feel better.  There were a couple of verses that helped me.\n\nBut Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”  John 6:68-69  \n\nNo matter how angry I was at God, I still believe in Him.  Where else would I go?\n\n\n“Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name.”  John 1227-28\n\nWhat if it was for this purpose that I came to earth?  Losing my babies was the single hardest thing I have ever dealt with.  What if the purpose of my life is to deal with that well?  How I come through shows my love and devotion to God in a similar way to how Jesus showed His love and obedience - by gracefully facing the trial before me.\n\nHe who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Romans 8:32\n\nIt was hard to be mad at God for not sparing my children when I thought about how He didn't spare His own Son for my sake.\n\nGod was parted with Jesus for a human lifetime.  I am parted with my children for a human lifetime.  Because of the gift of salvation - God's sacrifice for me - I can live eternally with Him and with my babies.\n\nWhen you are tempted to believe that God doesn't see how badly you are hurting, try reading all the passages that talk about God being for us, our Help, our Shield, our Shepherd.  Passages about His love, care and providence for us.  It really is overwhelming.  And at times like that, you need to be overwhelmed with love.\n\nIf at all possible, join a support group for those with similar losses.  It's very helpful to be around those who understand where your heart is.
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Because God has a cruel sense of humor and likes watching us strave, suffer, and die in torture. Makes life seem meaningless more by the day doesn't it? Though their theory seems to be. We make our lives what it is... (even though I don't see how we choose for other people to kill us, abuse us, or anything.)  Which I suppose means anything that comes your way... you can either Accept it and be hurt... or Deal with it, do something about, and Hope you come out above everything.
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It depends on why the children are poor, sick and hungry.  If its because you are spending all your income on drugs and not attending to your support obligations, then it is child neglect (not necessarily abuse).\nHowever, if your children are poor, sick, and hungry and you have done everything you could to support them, then you may just be unfortunate and in need of a helping hand, or you may be incompetent, and in need of a caretaker yourself.
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Saint Lukes Children 's Hospital because these are innocent children who haven't had a chance to live their life and most can't afford the treatment that is needed.
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Because they have committed horrific crimes. They have demonstrated that they are not fit to live. There will always be issues as to who does & doesn't deserve this ultimate penalty. I think anyone who rapes and murders deserves death. Those who do this to children, I'll volunteer to throw the switch myself.
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God is not this vicious being that punishes people by casting them into Hell for their sins. That is a made up tale by religious that wanted to scare the crap out of people into submission. The only Hell that exists is in your concsious when you pass over. Every one of God's children are given the opportunity to go Heaven (or the Light, whatever you want to call it) as long as they can see the errors that they made while on Earth..yes, this even includes some really horrible people (Manson,Hitler). Everyone has a shot at redemption. If people choose not see acknowledge their misdeeds and refuse to go with God, then they are left wandering about in their own self made dillusions and bitterness until the time they are ready to be councelled.
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They feel they have free choice, even though they shouldn't have the power to decide if someone should die or not. They are killing an innocent baby because they think it's a problem, they should work through it and not get rid of it.
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There are many levels of suffering when loving. For instance, when parents loose a childe, when a spouse looses his or her partner to accident or decease. And while it's been said that you cannot experience love if you don't experience suffering, or experience the night without a day, etc., it's really just a matter of  embracing everything life throws at you. Problems are nothing but bumps on the road that tell you, "avoid me in the future". To me real suffering has nothing to do with love per say. It has to do with circumstances like poverty, decease, injustice and so on, and even then, there is always the possibility of getting out of that.
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Do you have children? It would be much harder to see my son suffer than suffer myself.
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Taking a life of a child cannot be justified. Covering up a mistake with an even bigger one cannot be recommended. After all who are we to decide upon life or death?
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Even if they are belivers they still have to die. It's a part of life and we have to live with it. It may  seem hard but god will always love us and care for us.  sometimes he lets people die because it is their time. No one really haves control over this so do not worry everything happens for a reason.
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It is not fair for the children.\n\nBut it is also not fair that children have to go into foster homes, which are not always known for being great to kids, because their parents committed a crime and were sent to jail.\n\nThe parents are the ones who are responsible for the pain they cause their children, not everyone else.
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That's a very interesting question. I never thought of it that way before. The three patterns that play out with that theory do seem to fit into religions. Makes sense that it would be prevalent in their daily lives also, it's so ingrained to believe they are helpless unless they count on an outside source. Kinda twisted in away...that outside source is what will punish then for not being good enough. I'll say it again.....No child should be afraid of his/her parent.
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That is a good questions, many people wonder why there are so many tragedys and so much suffering. People of various religions have gone to their religious leaders and teachers to ask why there is so much suffering. Often, the response is that suffering is God’s will and that he long ago determined everything that would ever happen, including tragic events. Many are told that God’s ways are mysterious or that he brings death upon people—even children—so that he can have them in heaven with him. Though, Jehovah God never causes what is bad. The Bible says: “Far be it from the true God to act wickedly, and the Almighty to act unjustly!”—Job 34:10.\n\nDo you know why people make the mistake of blaming God for all the suffering in the world? In many cases, they blame Almighty God because they think that he is the real ruler of this world. They do not know a simple but important truth that the Bible teaches. The real ruler of this world is Satan the Devil.\n\nThe Bible clearly states: “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” (1 John 5:19) When you think about it, does that not make sense? This world reflects the personality of the invisible spirit creature who is “misleading the entire inhabited earth.” (Revelation 12:9) Satan is hateful, deceptive, and cruel. So the world, under his influence, is full of hatred, deceit, and cruelty. That is one reason why there is so much suffering.\n\nA second reason why there is so much suffering is that, mankind has been imperfect and sinful ever since the rebellion in the garden of Eden. Sinful humans tend to struggle for dominance, and this results in wars, oppression, and suffering. (Ecclesiastes 4:1; 8:9) A third reason for suffering is “time and unforeseen occurrence.” (Ecclesiastes 9:11) In a world without Jehovah as a protective Ruler, people may suffer because they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.\n\nIt is comforting for us to know that God does not cause suffering. He is not responsible for the wars, the crimes, the oppression, or even the natural disasters that cause people to suffer. Still, we need to know, Why does Jehovah allow all this suffering? If he is the Almighty, he has the power to stop it. Why, then, does he hold back? The loving God that we have come to know must have a good reason.—1 John 4:8.\n\nTo find out why God allows suffering, we need to think back to the time when suffering began. When Satan led Adam and Eve into disobeying Jehovah, an important question was raised. Satan did not call into question Jehovah’s power. Even Satan knows that there is no limit to Jehovah’s power. Rather, Satan questioned Jehovah’s right to rule. By calling God a liar who withholds good from his subjects, Satan charged that Jehovah is a bad ruler. (Genesis 3:2-5) Satan implied that mankind would be better off without God’s rulership. This was an attack on Jehovah’s sovereignty, his right to rule.\n\nAdam and Eve rebelled against Jehovah. In effect, they said: “We do not need Jehovah as our Ruler. We can decide for ourselves what is right and what is wrong.” How could Jehovah settle that issue? How could he teach all intelligent creatures that the rebels were wrong and that his way truly is best? Someone might say that God should simply have destroyed the rebels and made a fresh start. But Jehovah had stated his purpose to fill the earth with the offspring of Adam and Eve, and he wanted them to live in an earthly paradise. (Genesis 1:28) Jehovah always fulfills his purposes. (Isaiah 55:10, 11) Besides that, getting rid of the rebels in Eden would not have answered the question that had been raised regarding Jehovah’s right to rule.\n\nLet us consider an illustration. Imagine that a teacher is telling his students how to solve a difficult problem. A clever but rebellious student claims that the teacher’s way of solving the problem is wrong. Implying that the teacher is not capable, this rebel insists that
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Silly question.  People are punished for all kinds of unjust reasons.  It's like asking why do bad things happen to good people or something.
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Why Must Even Youths Die?\n\n“WHY did my baby die?” the young mother sobbed, grief-stricken at the death of her only child. “He had so many years ahead—so much to live for.”Such parents are not alone in their sorrow. Their pain has been felt by many others. Usually it is a grief known only to a few close friends. At other times the world becomes aware of the loss.\n\nThe only book that truly explains this situation is the oldest book in existence, the Holy Bible. Its writers were inspired by God, and so what they wrote merits our interest. One of those inspired penmen wrote almost three thousand years ago: “The living are conscious that they will die.”—Eccl. 9:5.This same Bible writer who wrote, “For the living are conscious that they will die,” continued that very sentence with a statement that surprises many persons. He said: “But as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.”—Eccl. 9:5, 10.\n\nThis idea surprises persons who have been taught in their churches that the dead not only are conscious, but are consciously suffering punishments or enjoying rewards. Who has not heard the idea that the dead are suffering in a hellfire or purgatory or are enjoying the blessings of heaven? Yet God’s Word, the Bible, says the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.”\nVerify this for yourself. Get your own copy of the Bible, and read these words in the book of Ecclesiastes, chapter nine, verses five and ten.\nThe Bible teaches that Jesus’ ransom sacrifice opened the way for a magnificent hope for mankind. By laying down his human life, Jesus was offering as a sacrifice the exact equivalent of what Adam had lost—perfect human life on earth. He paid a “ransom” for dying mankind. Now the prospect of eternal life was again open. Thus it was proper for the apostle Peter to call Jesus God’s “Chief Agent of life.” (Acts 3:15) It is by means of this One that God will raise the dead to life in a thrilling resurrection. Concerning this, the Christian apostle Paul said: “There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.”—Acts 24:15.\nEven now there are persons who are exercising faith in God’s Son, and they have a wonderful hope ahead of them, even as Jesus said: “God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, in order that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.”—John 3:16.\n\nMany persons can quote that Bible passage, but few have thought about what it actually says. It does not say that Jesus gave his life that people might “become angels” or so that “all good people might go to heaven.” It says he did so that they might have “everlasting life.”\n\nYou may have prayed: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”—Matt. 6:10, Douay translation.Few persons have realized what a change it will make for that prayer to be answered—for God’s will to be done throughout the earth the way it is done in heaven. In fact, it will require that God replace this present system of things, with its wars, corruption and greed. In its place will be a new system that will assure the conditions of peace and life that God originally created in Eden.\n\nPsalms 37:29  The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. It is possible to benefit from Christ’s ransom, and to conform to God’s instructions. We can take a course of obedience that will permit us either to survive through the coming “great tribulation” or to be resurrected afterward, into a righteous and cleansed earth, now near at hand. What a blessing to be on hand when dead loved ones, perhaps your children, return from the dead!  NO BABIES DO NOT GO TO "hell, or purgatory" THEY ARE ASLEEP WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION .
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I hate that people kill their children. I think that if they are that unhappy, they should kill themselves not innocent children.