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WHY DOES GOD ALLOW THE INNOCENT TO SUFFER?

I believe you have already wondered why God allows innocent people to suffer. But have you ever wondered why the most innocent person in history had to die because of you? Watch the video and understand!

You have probably already asked this question: “Why does God allow the innocent to suffer, innocent children, people, sometimes, who suffer or even die stupidly without having anything to do with the problem that hit them? Why does God see so much evil in the world and allow it to run free and this causes so much suffering?”

Now, do you know what I don’t hear anyone asking? “Why did the most innocent person in history suffer one of the cruellest deaths on the cross?”

I don’t see anyone asking this question. Still, it is the one that has everything to do with the first because if the person wants to know why God allows the innocent to suffer, then let’s go to the most innocent of all who suffered the most (maybe when you put in the scale the fact that He had no sin and suffered one of the most violent deaths that a human being could suffer).

God, being Almighty, did not stop the suffering of His Son.

People do not ask this, but if they ask, they will understand that the answer to the two questions is the same: the human being’s sin.

The human being’s sin is what causes suffering in the world. And because of the suffering in the world, God also suffers because of sin. He suffered for subjecting His Son to the cross to solve the problem of the human being’s sin.

So, look: by the suffering of the Son of God, we understand that not even God can spare Himself from suffering.

Because suffering is the consequence of another law, which is in force in humanity, the “law of freedom of choice”, the “law of human will”.

God created man endowed with his own will. So, man suffers because of this will when he leans to evil.

Thinking more deeply about it, if men did not exist, the devil would already be unravelled (expelled from the presence of God and powerless to do any harm to God). The devil can only reach God through man. And when does the devil hit the man? When he submits his will to him, he takes it out of submission to God.

I know it’s a lot of information for you to digest. But it is essential that you patiently think about it.

If God is going to prevent people from suffering, He has to take away their will. So, human beings would no longer be able to choose what they want. Soon, they would be a robot. So, what would be the glory of God if the human being were programmed only to obey?

Keep this lesson: your will is against you. We don’t know how to desire.

Sometimes, we want things selfishly; we want things that initially give us pleasure but then harm us.

So, if you want to get rid of suffering, you don’t have to blame God. Look at yourself. Take your will and submit it to God’s will.

Watch the entire message in the video above and think about it.

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