The Life Foundations Nexus
WHY DOES GOD SEND SUFFERING?
By Dr. Michael
J. Bisconti
This question, more than any
other, has puzzled and troubled multitudes through the centuries.
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God sends suffering to
some people to get them to stop living sinful lives. Once they turn
away from their sin, the suffering ceases.
If a person turns away from their sin and their suffering does not
immediately cease, then God is sending suffering for a second reason.
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Suffering proves that
God can do anything. (This truth is taught in the book of Job in
the Bible.) Some people believe that
God’s infinite love for us can prevent him from sending suffering. This is not so. If it were so, the infinite love of God would be greater than
God. In that case, God would not be God
since, by definition, there is nothing greater than God.
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The most difficult aspect
of this question relates to what many people cannot help but believe is pointless
suffering (but which is not) and especially as this relates to children
and, even more especially, little children, all of whom God loves dearly. Why does God send such suffering? There is an answer to this question BUT
WE MUST WARN YOU THAT IT MIGHT NOT SATISFY YOU. If you are looking for satisfaction, then
you need to seek satisfaction and not necessarily knowledge, that is, the
knowledge of the answer to this question.
If you need satisfaction, you can get satisfaction BUT YOU MIGHT NOT
GET IT THROUGH LEARNING THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION. In addition, you may not be able to fully
understand the answer to this question.
The reason for that is that a part of the answer requires knowledge of
subjects that are so complex that only a handful of people have ever studied
them. (We have begun to teach these
subjects on this website. See “The Genius
Pages.”)
Note also that the precise words used to communicate the answer to this
question about (seemingly) pointless suffering ARE THE ONLY WORDS IN
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE WHICH CAN COMMUNICATE THE ANSWER. One of these words, the word
“perlutapertrigordian,” is a neologism.
Once you fully understand the rest of the answer to the question, let us
know, and we will explain the meaning of this word. Now, here is the answer: