Questions of Suffering Individuals often ask, “Why do people suffer?” or “What causes suffering?” One possible answer individuals have is blaming Satan, which makes sense considering he is associated with everything evil, which is true to a certain extent. Another answer people give is God is the cause of suffering, that also is a reasonable answer because he is never around to help individuals with suffering. However, the best answer would be: holding humans responsible for suffering due to their own selfishness and disability to take fault in their own actions. Humans tend to blame other individuals for their wrong-doing because it takes away their feeling of guilt. In most cases humans are definitely the reason for the suffering of other
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Satan is to blame for giving humans temptations but it is their fault for giving into those temptations. There is an excellent example even back in the biblical times: the Garden of Eden story. Eve blamed the snake for convincing her to take the forbidden fruit and Adam blamed Eve for giving him the forbidden fruit. Nobody forced either of them to eat it, they did it upon their own free will. Adam and Eve gave into their sinful temptation to eat the fruit, in the end the two can only blame themselves for eating the fruit and the cause of their suffering. Another excellent example is in Elie Wiesel’s play The Trial of God: Maria let Sam seduce her and than blamed him for her suffering. Maria made her own choice, Sam may have tempted her but she was the one who gave into her desires. Maria tells everyone, “Don’t listen! Don’t listen to him! Its dangerous even to hear …show more content…
It’s ironic actually: they ask the questions on why humans suffer not knowing it’s the sinfulness of other humans. 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 or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It’s our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.” (_______) This is important to recognize because in cases like this it is human selfishness that causes other humans to suffer. If people were not selfish and would share, there would be no starving people in the world. Another example to look at is in The Trial of God, while defending god, Sam questions, “Who is to blame for all that? After all, the situation seems to me simple indeed: men and women and children were massacred by other men. Why involve, why implicate their Father in Heaven? “ (p. 128) Through the duration of the Holocaust, 6 million Jews died; One selfish human-being (Hitler) and his followers were the cause of this horrific even. If these humans cared about other human lives none of the millions of Jews would have had to suffer. Human selfishness and wrongdoing is to blame for
Satan is to blame for giving humans temptations but it is their fault for giving into those temptations. There is an excellent example even back in the biblical times: the Garden of Eden story. Eve blamed the snake for convincing her to take the forbidden fruit and Adam blamed Eve for giving him the forbidden fruit. Nobody forced either of them to eat it, they did it upon their own free will. Adam and Eve gave into their sinful temptation to eat the fruit, in the end the two can only blame themselves for eating the fruit and the cause of their suffering. Another excellent example is in Elie Wiesel’s play The Trial of God: Maria let Sam seduce her and than blamed him for her suffering. Maria made her own choice, Sam may have tempted her but she was the one who gave into her desires. Maria tells everyone, “Don’t listen! Don’t listen to him! Its dangerous even to hear …show more content…
It’s ironic actually: they ask the questions on why humans suffer not knowing it’s the sinfulness of other humans. 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 or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It’s our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.” (_______) This is important to recognize because in cases like this it is human selfishness that causes other humans to suffer. If people were not selfish and would share, there would be no starving people in the world. Another example to look at is in The Trial of God, while defending god, Sam questions, “Who is to blame for all that? After all, the situation seems to me simple indeed: men and women and children were massacred by other men. Why involve, why implicate their Father in Heaven? “ (p. 128) Through the duration of the Holocaust, 6 million Jews died; One selfish human-being (Hitler) and his followers were the cause of this horrific even. If these humans cared about other human lives none of the millions of Jews would have had to suffer. Human selfishness and wrongdoing is to blame for