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Smileitsme: 10 months ago via iPhone

A lot of people ask why does God permit suffering why do you think he permits it?

9 Finally his wife said to him: ?Are you yet holding fast your integrity? Curse God and die!? 10 But he said to her: ?As one of the senseless women speaks, you speak also. Shall we accept merely what is good from the [true] God and not accept also what is bad?? In all this Job did not sin with his lips. "Job at this point didn't realize that it was the devil attacking him but we could ask are selfs in good time I serve God why not in bad time? We should think of all the wonderful blessing he gives on a daily basis. The air that we breath are family's this beutifull marble world we live in. What a great God we have!

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shinypate: 10 months ago via iPhone | Last edited at 7:03AM on 7/15/2012

Job was the first book of scripture written, according to scholars. The final answer for Job was that, in spite of trials, "if he slay me, yet shall I love him." For Job, he had made the decision to love God, even when the times are hard and the circumstances bitter. The decision is one we make when we are convinced it's the right thing to do, and when we find we love God and do not wish to be without him in the world.
Not everyone comes to this decision, and not everyone can love when the sky is like iron and troubles like an ocean. May you find it well with your soul, though troubles like sea billows roll.

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Smileitsme: 10 months ago via iPhone

I enjoyed your answer thank you

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shinypate: 10 months ago via iPhone

Welcome!

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lala0922: 10 months ago via iPhone

Do you know the story of that hymn? Powerful.

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magdalene: 10 months ago

Wow, shinypate, God raises up a people who speak in His Wisdom I believe. And you just did! Thank You so much! green

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strawberrygirl: 10 months ago

green shiny. You changed your profile info?

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Godknowsall: 10 months ago via iPhone

You seem to know the Bible well so why are you asking this question ? The answer is Adam and Eve . If they
had not sinned man would not have to suffer however as it is they did so mankind suffers . Man sins and therefore God sent his only son Jesus Christ to enjoy the most torturous , barbarous death imaginable . God's own son suffered more than anyone will ever suffer. So are we greater than God? The answer is no . If God suffered we must also but we can join our sufferings to Christ's sufferings on the cross

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Smileitsme: 10 months ago via iPhone

I was asking the question because I love to hear the thoughts of others

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Smileitsme: 10 months ago via iPhone

I like your thought on this. One of my thought is that If God had destroyed Adam and Eve how would he prove Satan a liar there where all of his angels that saw what happened and what was said God was so loving that with all his powers he didn't use it against us and exterminated us he is proving to us "Jeremiah 10:23" "23 I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step." Above all he is sanctifying his name and proving Satan a liar. What a loving God!

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shaylen: 10 months ago

Adam fell that men might be, and men are, that they might have joy.

Might I add, it was God's plan that we would be on this earth, that we might one day return and live with him. We came he to be tested and gain salvation.

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GastonZavala: 10 months ago

That's right Godknowsall, but there is a lot of explanation behind that question.

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Smileitsme: 10 months ago via iPhone

Yes there is a lot of explanation to this question. Would you share them us? I would love to hear your thought on this.

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jjjjj13: 10 months ago via iPhone

He isn't real, so he can't prevent anything.

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hAmStErLoVeR: 10 months ago via iPhone

Wrong

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batman1981: 10 months ago via iPhone

God is real

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hAmStErLoVeR: 10 months ago via iPhone

God permits suffering so we offer it to Him and let grow closer to Him through it.

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shaylen: 10 months ago

Proverbs 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:
12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
From this scripture, God allows suffering to correct us. He allows suffering so we can learn to be more loving and have compassion on others, as well as learn to be humble in the knowledge that we can't do it on our own as we call upon him for help. He give us suffering so we can progress and grow as we learn to overcome. Perfection does not come in this lifetime, it comes after we meet the savior. Somebody said this in a talk at church and I really liked this point: the way to salvation was not easy for the savior, who bled at every pore for us and was crucified. Why should the way then, be easy for us?
In short, we are given trials and suffering to be tested, to prove faithful in all things, good and bad. That's how we gain salvation, by trusting in God and enduring to the end. We should take comfort though, trials do end, and we have prayer:) in times of trial, look to the light.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMwKxmTLaCs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Hrdtyme: 10 months ago via iPhone

To bring us closer to him

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Truthisobviousliesar: 10 months ago

God has no authority on earth if he exists at all. We are but the devils play things.

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