Does Suffering Make It Impossible to Believe in God?

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Does Suffering Make It Impossible to Believe in God?

Even though I go to church and have been brought up as a Catholic, I still find it pretty hard to believe in God because the type of people who suffer are the usually the innocent ones and if God did exist, there would be no suffering because the bible says that God loves us and forgives our sins. Another reason is natural disasters and other types of suffering would not happen.

I agree with the following statements:

“Suffering is an inevitable part of the world” because it is going to happen no matter what.

“God cannot exist – no God would allow such suffering.” because God is meant to protect us and love us, suffering is not loving nor protecting.

“It would be a better world if no one suffered in the first place.” because there would be no guilt, regret or revenge. The world would be happy.

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“Suffering is not a punishment from God.”, it is caused by humans, he just does nothing to stop it.

“There is no explanation good enough for the suffering of the innocent.” The innocent should never ever suffer yet they still do and that's down the people who do make mistakes and sin and commit crimes etc.

In reality, there are many different types and causes of suffering. You can have emotional, physical or psychological. These can be caused by human power or natural power. Some examples of this is human power would be something like The Holocaust because Hitler ...

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