Individuals often ask, “Why do people suffer?” Possible answer is blaming Satan or even in some cases God, for the cause of suffering; a better answer is holding humans responsible for the reason people have to suffer. Satan is blamed for everything evil, which is true to a certain extent; however, not a lot of individuals take their own actions into consideration. Humans tend to blame other individuals for their actions because it takes away their feeling of guilt. I will show that it is in fact humans who cause a lot of the suffering in the world. God gave humans the responsibility to make decisions for oneself. A quote from Lee Strobel, an American Christian author states, “So much of the world’s suffering results from the sinful action
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In my opinion, it makes more since to blame the all evil Satan whether than the all good God. Satan is known to be the “True evil,” however, I am still not sold that Satan is to blame for suffering. Individuals believe the evil in the world that is shown in the Holocaust, demonstrates that Satan is near and negatively active. In the Trial of God Sam says, "And what if I told you that I am God’s emissary? I visit His creation and bring stories back to Him. I see all things, I watch all men. I cannot do all I want, but I can undo all things" (p. 158). Sam turns out to be Satan at the end of the play; which is an important note because Sam was God’s defendant, and was actually making great points and defending God, which is odd due to the fact they are basically enemies. One could believe Satan was standing up for God because he was jealous of the fact that everyone was blaming God for the reason why the Jews were being slaughtered and basically all of suffering. He did not want God to get all of the credit for his doing…. Like I stated in a previous paragraph: Hitler, a man that negated the way of God started the Holocaust out of pure selfishness. He wanted the Germans to feel superior after the first world war one and needed a different culture to “bully” in order to feel better about themselves. Which ended up causes the massacre of about six million
In my opinion, it makes more since to blame the all evil Satan whether than the all good God. Satan is known to be the “True evil,” however, I am still not sold that Satan is to blame for suffering. Individuals believe the evil in the world that is shown in the Holocaust, demonstrates that Satan is near and negatively active. In the Trial of God Sam says, "And what if I told you that I am God’s emissary? I visit His creation and bring stories back to Him. I see all things, I watch all men. I cannot do all I want, but I can undo all things" (p. 158). Sam turns out to be Satan at the end of the play; which is an important note because Sam was God’s defendant, and was actually making great points and defending God, which is odd due to the fact they are basically enemies. One could believe Satan was standing up for God because he was jealous of the fact that everyone was blaming God for the reason why the Jews were being slaughtered and basically all of suffering. He did not want God to get all of the credit for his doing…. Like I stated in a previous paragraph: Hitler, a man that negated the way of God started the Holocaust out of pure selfishness. He wanted the Germans to feel superior after the first world war one and needed a different culture to “bully” in order to feel better about themselves. Which ended up causes the massacre of about six million