Why has God allowed suffering and wickedness until our days? (Part 8)

4 min readJan 28, 2021

Why the suffering?

Suffering is the result of four main factors

1 — The devil is the one who causes suffering (but not always) (Job 1:7–12; 2:1–6). According to Jesus Christ, he is the ruler of this world: “Now there is a judging of this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out” (John 12:31; 1 John 5:19). This is why humanity as a whole is unhappy: “For we know that all creation keeps on groaning together and being in pain together until now” (Romans 8:22).

2 — Suffering is the result of our condition of sinners, which leads us to old age, sickness and death: “That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned. (…) For the wages sin pays is death” (Romans 5:12; 6:23).

3 — Suffering can be the result of bad human decisions (on our part or those of other humans): “For I do not do the good that I wish, but the bad that I do not wish is what I practice” (Deuteronomy 32:5; Romans 7:19). The suffering is not the result of a “supposed law of karma”. Here is what we can read in John chapter 9: “As he was passing along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, so that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered: “Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but it was so that the works of God might be made manifest in his case” (John 9:1–3). The “works of God”, in his case, were to be his miraculous healing.

4 — Suffering can be the result of “unexpected times and events” which cause the person to be in the wrong place at the wrong time: “I have seen something further under the sun, that the swift do not always win the race, nor do the mighty win the battle, nor do the wise always have the food, nor do the intelligent always have the riches, nor do those with knowledge always have success, because time and unexpected events overtake them all. For man does not know his time. Just as fish are caught in an evil net and birds are caught in a trap, so the sons of men are ensnared in a time of disaster, when it suddenly overtakes them” (Ecclesiastes 9:11,12).

Here is what Jesus Christ said about two tragic events which had caused many deaths: “At that time some who were present reported to him about the Gal·i·leʹans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. In reply he said to them: “Do you think that those Gal·i·leʹans were worse sinners than all other Gal·i·leʹans because they have suffered these things? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise be destroyed. Or those 18 on whom the tower in Si·loʹam fell, killing them — do you think that they had greater guilt than all other men who live in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all be destroyed, as they were.”” (Luke 13:1–5). At no time Jesus Christ suggested that victims of accidents or natural disasters sinned more than others, or even, that God causes such events to punish sinners. Whether it is illnesses, accidents or natural disasters, it is not God who causes them and those who are victims have not sinned more than others.

God will end all this suffering: “With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”” (Revelation 21:3,4).

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