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2 In my futile life I have seen everything: 
there is a righteous man who perishes in spite of his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in spite of his evil.  Ecclesiastes 7:15 There is a futility that is done on the earth: there are righteous people who get what the wicked deserve and there are wicked people who get what the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile. Ecclesiastes 8:14

3 Why does an all-loving and all-powerful God allow injustice and suffering?
If God is all-loving, He would want to stop evil If God is all-powerful, He could stop evil. Evil still exists. So God must not exist or He must not be all-loving or all-powerful.

4 Why does an all-loving and all-powerful God allow injustice and suffering?
If God is all-loving, He would want to stop evil If God is all-powerful, He could stop evil. God is all-wise. Evil still exists. So God must not exist or He must not be all-loving or all-powerful.

5 Is it reasonable to think that humanity has the intellectual capacity to know everything about everything? “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not My ways.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “For as heaven is higher than earth, so My ways are higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9

6 God chose relationship over a pain-free world – because you can’t have both.

7 Though suffering isn’t good, God can use it to accomplish good.
God chose relationship over a pain-free world – because you can’t have both. Though suffering isn’t good, God can use it to accomplish good.

8 God chose relationship over a pain-free world – because you can’t have both.
Though suffering isn’t good, God can use it to accomplish good. Just because God hasn’t eradicated evil yet doesn’t mean He won’t someday do that. The day is coming when suffering will cease and God will judge evil.

9 God chose relationship over a pain-free world – because you can’t have both.
Though suffering isn’t good, God can use it to accomplish good. Just because God hasn’t eradicated evil yet doesn’t mean He won’t someday do that. The day is coming when suffering will cease and God will judge evil. Our suffering will one day pale in comparison to what God has in store for us. Our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 2 Corinthians 4:17 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. Romans 8:18

10 God chose relationship.
God can bring good out of suffering. God will one day eradicate suffering and judge evil. Our suffering will one day pale in comparison to what God has in store for us.


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