In this world, there had been much suffering and grace that has befallen on the lives of many human beings. Great famine, terrorism, world wars, plague, persecution of Jews, massacres, and abuse have taken place in our history and unfortunately, there is still much suffering in most people’s lives today. According to Bryan Frances in his book Gratuitous Suffering and the Problem of Evil, “Our world contains enormous amounts of suffering. Virtually all the higher animals, humans included, experience fear, terror, agony, sorrow, misery, anguish and torment.”1 Because of this, questions were raised about the existence of God and His reasons for allowing such horrible experiences to take place in the lives of those whom He created. With this, Christians
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Furthermore, “Moral evil includes all bad states caused deliberately by humans doing what they believe to be bad, and especially wrong and also the bad states constituted by such deliberate actions or negligent failure. Also, it is when humans do something they believe to be bad even if it results to no suffering.”3 Some examples are actions done by human beings wherein they cause pain or suffering on other people’s lives such as crime, murder, rape, discrimination, slavery, genocide, class struggles, and other vicious acts done by human agents. On the other hand, “Natural evil includes all the trail of suffering which disease and accidents unpreventable by man bring in their train. Also, it includes the bad desires with which we find ourselves”4 Some examples of these are those events that naturally occur such as earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, severe diseases experienced by some people and other events that cause suffering which are not a result of human activity. These kinds of pain and …show more content…
One is in the book Gratuitous Suffering saying that when some people are faced with extreme adversities, they would think that there must be a good reason as to why these things are happening to them. They believe that God has an ulterior motive or plan for them which is why He allowed pain and suffering to happen in their lives. “He must have a plan of some kind, even if we cannot discern it. All that suffering must be worth it in some fashion; otherwise, he would not have permitted it. God knows what He is doing, even if we do not know what and why He is doing it.”6 As Christians, we are taught to have faith in a God that is good and loving and who has made a plan for all His creation that is also good and loving. This is what is being said in Jeremiah 29:11 and it explains that God’s plan never meant to inflict pure evil and suffering on anyone. According to Paul Vermeer, “Human suffering is not intended by God, but suffering does fit in with the contemplated, divine plan.”7 By experiencing pain and suffering, our faith may dwindle but not completely whither should we remain to trust God’s plans. Strong faith does not always mean being comfortable and for it to be strengthened, it needs to undergo adversities. We ought to have faith even if we do not see or cannot predict the end result, especially if we are talking about our faith in God. This is the message being said in Hebrews 11:1. We
Furthermore, “Moral evil includes all bad states caused deliberately by humans doing what they believe to be bad, and especially wrong and also the bad states constituted by such deliberate actions or negligent failure. Also, it is when humans do something they believe to be bad even if it results to no suffering.”3 Some examples are actions done by human beings wherein they cause pain or suffering on other people’s lives such as crime, murder, rape, discrimination, slavery, genocide, class struggles, and other vicious acts done by human agents. On the other hand, “Natural evil includes all the trail of suffering which disease and accidents unpreventable by man bring in their train. Also, it includes the bad desires with which we find ourselves”4 Some examples of these are those events that naturally occur such as earthquakes, tsunamis, tornadoes, severe diseases experienced by some people and other events that cause suffering which are not a result of human activity. These kinds of pain and …show more content…
One is in the book Gratuitous Suffering saying that when some people are faced with extreme adversities, they would think that there must be a good reason as to why these things are happening to them. They believe that God has an ulterior motive or plan for them which is why He allowed pain and suffering to happen in their lives. “He must have a plan of some kind, even if we cannot discern it. All that suffering must be worth it in some fashion; otherwise, he would not have permitted it. God knows what He is doing, even if we do not know what and why He is doing it.”6 As Christians, we are taught to have faith in a God that is good and loving and who has made a plan for all His creation that is also good and loving. This is what is being said in Jeremiah 29:11 and it explains that God’s plan never meant to inflict pure evil and suffering on anyone. According to Paul Vermeer, “Human suffering is not intended by God, but suffering does fit in with the contemplated, divine plan.”7 By experiencing pain and suffering, our faith may dwindle but not completely whither should we remain to trust God’s plans. Strong faith does not always mean being comfortable and for it to be strengthened, it needs to undergo adversities. We ought to have faith even if we do not see or cannot predict the end result, especially if we are talking about our faith in God. This is the message being said in Hebrews 11:1. We