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We're going to answer some of that aspect of the problem of pain and suffering. And, what we're going to do is give some reasons why an all loving God, Who is all powerful, could allow the suffering and pain that we see in our lives. And, we'll see that not only does suffering and pain not militate against God, but we will be able to see God's presence in the pain and the suffering. When we start to look at the question of "Why does God allow the suffering and pain that He does? You say, why would we go to the Bible for the answer, there's a very good reason for that.

You go to the Bible for the answer because that's where we learn that there is even a problem.

"Evil, Pain, and Suffering" Video Transcript

And what I mean by "problem" when we discuss the problem of evil, pain and suffering, we're asking why a loving God, Who's all powerful, would allow suffering and pain. Well, where did we get the idea that God is a loving God? We got that from the Bible. Numerous passages tell us that, but in 1 John 4: But, where did we get the idea that God is all powerful? We got that from the Bible just as well. In several passages we read that God is all powerful, that He's omnipotent, that He can do anything that He desires to do that would take power to do.

So, we see that God is love from the Bible. We see that God is all powerful from the Bible. And, we also see throughout the Bible and throughout our human experience, that God does allow suffering. One reason that God allows suffering is because His love values freedom. What do I mean by "His love values freedom? He made humans with the ability to be able to speak, to be able to think, to be able to decide what those humans want to do or don't want to do. And, with the freedom to decide, with the freedom of choice comes the responsibility of consequences.

You see, God has the power to create a group of beings that couldn't decide for themselves—robotic creatures that would always do exactly what He wanted them to do, creatures that wouldn't have the freedom to choose. But, if He gives His creatures, humans, the freedom to choose because He loves them, then that freedom has to come with consequences.

One of the main reasons that people suffer is because we have the freedom to choose and we suffer because of our own consequences. Can you imagine a world where all of the consequences were the same? Imagine a world where a person went and worked hard all day to earn money to live, and another person stole to live and every consequence was the exact same, to the person who worked hard and to the person who stole.

Imagine a world where consequences were the exact same if you decided that you were going to take care of the poor and feed the hungry, and you were going to do the best that you could to help others and the consequences were the same for that as if you decided you'd walk down the street and murder anybody that you didn't want to have deal with, or you wanted their things. You wanted to take their material possessions.

What if the consequences were all the same?

Could we ever learn from a world like that? No, we certainly couldn't. In fact, in the very beginning when God put Adam and Eve in the garden of paradise, He designed that garden for them to be able to live forever. He never wanted them to have to experience suffering and pain and death. But, He allowed them to freely choose to disobey Him. And, when they freely chose to disobey Him, those consequences of their free choice, hit their lives very heavily. Do you know that sometimes what occurs in our lives, the suffering and the pain, it's because of our own poor decisions.

But, there are other reasons for the suffering and pain that goes on in the world today. We understand that much of the pain and suffering that comes into our lives is because God allows us to have the freedom to choose.

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And sometimes we choose wrongly. Think about a person who decides to drink alcohol. They take in more alcohol than their body can handle. They are passed the level of intoxicated. They get behind the wheel of a car. They drive down the road, they lose control, smash into a telephone pole and they're paralyzed for the rest of their life on this earth, whose fault is that?

Can you blame God for wrong decisions that a person makes that cause pain and suffering in his or her life? Certainly that's not God's fault. But, you and I both know that some pain and suffering that comes into our lives is not because we made wrong decisions.

No, sometimes innocent people suffer. Imagine that same scenario with the person who has taken in too much alcohol, they're drunk, they're behind the wheel, except this time they don't smash into a telephone pole. This time they swerve into the middle of the road and an oncoming car that has an innocent two-year-old. That drunk driver smashes into that oncoming car, that month-old loses his life because of the wrong decisions of that drunk driver. Does that seem fair? Why didn't God stop that? Why would God create a world where we are impacted so devastatingly by the wrong decisions of others?

The answer to that is fairly simple. The answer to that is that God is no respecter of persons. God doesn't decide who gets the freedom to choose and who doesn't. In fact, when God created humans He endowed them with the ability to make decisions that had consequences. But those consequences, they didn't just impact the person making the decisions, but those consequences impact other people around them. But God, there are some people out there that wouldn't.

Some people out there that would choose to do wrong, that would choose to make decisions that would cause pain in my life. God, I don't think you should let them have the freedom to choose. I don't think you should allow the situation to be such that their choices would have consequences like my choices have. When God created humans, he endowed them with the ability to choose.

And sometimes those choices bring about consequences that cause pain and suffering in the lives of even the innocent. Is that unfair of God to give everyone the freedom to choose? Since He's no respecter of persons, we all have the ability to impact those around us. There are other reasons why God allows the pain and suffering that go on in this world. We understand that some of the pain and suffering that comes into our life is because of our own wrong decisions. We also understand that since God doesn't respect one person over another, He allows everyone to make decisions that impact those around them.

And, some of the pain and suffering that comes into our life is because of the wrong decisions of others who are living around us. There's another reason why we experience pain and suffering. And that's because sometimes past generations have made decisions that impact the present generation. We can thing of all kinds of examples of this, but one good example is the idea and use of asbestos. For many years, people thought that using asbestos was a great idea. They mined it and they put it in insulating fibers that they used to insulate military vehicles.

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They used to insulate factories and it was very effective. It was fire proof, virtually, and they thought it was a great idea. And then they started seeing that the people who were mining asbestos were dying prematurely of lung disease. They started seeing an increase in lung cancer and other medical problems that were due to an association with asbestos. Hundreds of thousands of people died because people in past generations didn't understand that asbestos was not a good idea and harms people when they breathe it in.

There again, are we to blame God for the deaths of those hundreds of thousands of people? God allowed past generations to make decisions and those decisions affected and impacted not only people in their generation, but future generations. We might try to protest and say that "Well that just doesn't seem fair. Right now, I'm speaking to you and I'm wearing contact lenses. I think contact lenses are one of the most amazing inventions that have come down the pike in the last twenty, thirty, forty years.

Now why is that? Well, that's because very smart people in past generations studied how light comes into the eye and they invented tiny pieces of plastic that you can put into your eye and you can see. We walk into houses, many of us, and turn on water faucets and we drink clean, pure water out of those faucets.