how can a good and loving God allow suffering?
how can a good and loving God allow suffering?
The core of God’s plan is to rescue us from sin. Our pain and poverty and broken hearts are merely symptoms of the real problem. God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him. In other words, as we head for heaven, God lets us continue to feel much of sin’s sting through our suffering. This constantly reminds us of what we are being delivered from, exposing sin for the poison it is. Thus, one form of evil (suffering) is turned on its head to defeat another form of evil (that is, our transgressions), all to the praise of God’s wisdom.