Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering?

How can God allow bad things to happen? Thought leaders, theologians, authors, and speakers examine why we often experience pain and suffering in life.

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[kenrader]

I am reminded of this saying:
If we never had a single problem, we would never know that God could solve them, we would never know what faith, in his word could do.
I believe we are to learn of things like hate, as well as love, also pain and sufferig, as well as healing.
We can not have sunny days, without rain and storms of life. This is how we grow.

[GaudioWind]

Religious people always say that God let us suffer because there is no other way to reach Paradise in communion with God. They forget that, according to the same people, God allows into heaven babies who die very early with or without suffering, which means that suffering is not a necessary condition for that.

[friedrichrubinstein]

At the end of time, millions of people gathered on a huge plain before the throne of God. Many of them looked anxiously at the bright light that was shining on them, but there were also a few groups of people who were talking heatedly. The surroundings didn't seem to impress them.
"How can God judge us? What does he understand about our suffering?” hissed a young woman. She pulled up one sleeve and showed a tattooed number from a concentration camp.
A colored young man agitatedly opened his shirt collar. "Check this out, " he told his neighbors. On his neck you could see the ugly mark of a rope. “I was lynched only because I'm black. We were suffocated in slave ships. We were separated from our loved ones, like animals we had to work until death set us free”.
Angry voices were heard everywhere now. Everyone complained to God for allowing evil and suffering in the world. How much better off was God to live in heaven in all its beauty and holiness. There were no tears, no fear, no hunger and no hatred. Yes, could God even imagine what man on earth had to endure? After all, he himself lived a very sheltered life, they found.
Groups formed and each chose a speaker. It was always the one who suffered the most. There was a Jew, a black man, an untouchable from India, an illegitimate child, a disfigured leprosy patient, a victim from Hiroshima and someone from a labor camp in Siberia. They were arguing agitatedly. Finally, they agreed on the wording of their charges. The situation was very simple. Before God had the right to judge them, He should endure what they’ve had to endure. Their verdict: God should be condemned to live on earth as a human being. But since God was God, they had set certain conditions. He was not allowed to be able to help himself because of his divine nature, and they had come up with the following ideas: He should be born as a Jew. The legitimacy of his birth should be questionable. Nobody should know who the father was. He should try to explain to people who God is. He should be betrayed by his closest friends. He should be charged with false accusations, interrogated by a biased court, and sentenced by a cowardly judge. After all, he should experience for himself what it means to be completely alone and abandoned by everyone. He should be tortured and then die, and that should be done in public, so terribly that there could be no doubt that he really had died. There should be a huge number of witnesses to confirm this.
As each speaker announced his part of the verdict, a mumble rose in the huge crowd. When the last speaker finished his sentence, there was a long silence and all who had condemned God suddenly left quietly. Nobody dared to speak anymore. Nobody moved, because suddenly everyone knew: God had already done just that.

[whitedollviews]

Pain... it hurts so bad, and god let me in silence for 3 years, and I asked him age 14 “Jesus I need a reason why this is happening to me I can’t do it” and he told me he would reveal it one day. Well years later, yesterday he did and it changed me, every thing I thought was bad, has helped me in ways i couldn’t imagine.... wow

[nightsky]

Thank you. I'm questioning my suffering now.

[lilyelizabeth]

Thank you so much for this.
I love this and it rings with so much undeniable truth!
These videos are very much needed because in this world there are so many lies and things that try to make us believe something that is false. Those lies can then later tear us apart but when we find truth and accept it, our bond with God grows stronger.

[whitedollviews]

God gave me choices to get out of horrible situations, and I didn’t listen, I chose the bad path. But he gave me a testimony after years and years of horrible pain and hate. Anger. I was in so much pain, I could not save myself. And I tried with everything I had, but I failed and I knew I couldn’t do it. I knew god had to save me or I was just too far under... numb and I can’t get out without help.

[DaddyG_]

A possible answer would be:
"Free will...God allows evil to exist because of free will and those that choose to love him, will dwell with him in heaven. But of course with free will still intact, Gods one and only concern with evil...is to one day destroy it."
God's NOT Dead.

[boricuababi]

3 mins in killed me! :'( I lost my baby boy. Without my faith in god I wouldnt be here today! I would have killed myself to be with him... :'(

[juggernaut]

I ask the same question each day. But so many "GOD" people ignore it and just forget about it.

[tammyhall]

Through our circumstances, sometimes devastating, God teaches us who we are. Sometimes wonderful, sometimes horrible and we need to reflect on how to get closer to Him and let Him have control of our lives. Loving us all through it all.

[MrGreat]

No matter how painful the pain maybe, God's grace is always sufficient. Our helpless situation is a reminder that we are helpless without God.

[hats]

I have diabetes type 1 and my blood sugar is always high. I'm starving myself just to keep my blood sugar low, in fact right now it's 24.7 (it should be 4.4) so it's 5x higher than it should be. I did nothing to deserve this! So why would God do this??? WHY??? My aunt passed away yesterday due to pancreas cancer and I prayed for her to get better but why didn't she? Sometimes I feel like God doesn't listen to my prayers

[johnbrowne]

Nice vid but doesn't answer the question.

[ceciliagomez]

I don't think suffering happens because God allows it to. I think that he created us for a reason we can't explain. He created us, but we are not perfect. Only God is perfect. We have free will and because we are not perfect, neither can our existence be. We shouldn't be asking why God lets bad things happen because, the answer is simple. He doesn't. He doesn't want us to suffer, but he can't keep bad things from happening to us all the time. There are outside influences that affect our lives, and he can't not allow those things because then he would be taking away our free will. The important things about God is that he is there for us during the pain. He gives us a shoulder to lean on and thats what should be important.

[samsaysso]

You have to really understand his mercy and love to see the answer and anointing in this video!!!! Thank you so much 😊

[CLRKEakog]

I'd like to say that at least if you're watching this video as a non-believer, you are at least investigating the matter before condemning it altogether, which as at least some positivity. Most people wouldn't even bother trying to find the answer to these questions for themselves.

[alabaster]

6:01 so he takes something loved something you care about and makes it suffer so that others will find Him? No no NOO what type of sadist is this? no dont use me or mine to show others how great you are, dont hury me or mine just so you can feel better, its wrong to make innocents suffer just to test someones faith is

[curtyerg]

What would a world of suffering look like without God? I think precisely the way it does.

[julyrosales]

The lady that lost her child broke my heart. May she find peace in her heart.