"If God really loved humanity we would never have to suffer"

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AO3 “If God really loved humanity we would never have to suffer”

James Quinn 4F

        An Atheists view is usually “That if there is a God then there would be no suffering therefore there must be no God”. There are many single incidents, which back up this belief such as, the holocaust in the Second World War, the attack on the World Trade Centres by Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network. Also all the wars that have ever taken place in History also back up this argument that if there was a God would he not have stopped all this mass suffering before it happened. Also another reason to back this theory is called the “problem of evil”. This is the theory that God is Omnipotent (all powerful), Omniscient (all knowing) and Omni benevolent (all loving) then why does God let evil happen.  If you take one of these away then you can see that God could let evil happen, e.g. if you take away Omnipotent then God is not all powerful and would not be able to stop evil. This makes Atheists think that there must be no God.

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        A Christian would be able to find the solution in the bible and from other people’s views.  The bible would give a few different answers, one of them being in the chapter Job, and this chapter will give you three solutions;

  1. Suffering is a Test
  2. Suffering is a Punishment for Sin
  3. Suffering is a Part of God’s plan, which is beyond human understanding

Other solutions;

Free Will – God has given us the right to do what we want, so all the sin in the world has come about through our own bad doing.

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