At Job 34:10 it says "So listen to me, you men of understanding,it is unthinkable for the true God to act wickedly, for the Almighty to do wrong" With that being said what other factors cause humans to suffer?
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As per Hindu philosophy, suffering is due to our "karma", either good or bad. Good karma will give you good life and happiness and bad karma will result in various type of sufferings. If you have helped some one, you will get help from any source when you need the most. Similarly your bad karma can disturb your life in some or other way. To over come your past bad karma, you need to do good karma.( Karma = actions in routine life)
The book of Job demonstrates the absolute hate of the devil. He uses three ways to attack God's people: disease, natural disasters, and other people.
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To understand why there is so much suffering, we need to identify the real causes behind it all.
The Bible points out: “It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.” (Jeremiah 10:23) However humans continue to rely on themselves instead of the one who created them.
Some key factors in human suffering is;
BAD GOVERNMENT - The Bible says, “When anyone wicked bears rule, the people sigh,” Proverbs 29:2.
FALSE RELIGION - Bible says, "By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves,” said Jesus.—John 13:35.
We are living in what the Bible calls, THE LAST DAYS, 2 Timothy 3:1-4.
“Know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.” “For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, . . . having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God.”
In view of these factor, it is clear that God is not the cause but rather the solution of Human suffering. For anyone who would like to investigate these statements and it's
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Our suffering is caused by sin and imperfection as well as selfish, inhumane oppression and domination of the lowly ones (Romans 5:12, Ecclesiastes 8:9).
Jehovah God is NOT the cause of suffering in the world and He is NOT the cause of suffering in our personal life (Deuteronomy 32:4-5). But He does allow it. However, soon in mankind's coming history, all suffering will end to the benefit of obedient mankind (Psalms 37:10-11, Revelation 21:4-5, Isaiah 33:24, Acts 24:15).
It is wrong to believe that God is the cause of our suffering. We are the cause of our own suffering. God has created a law, the law of action and reaction, a law known as karma. It works on the principle, as you sow, so shall you reap; what you give is what you get. The seed that we plant decides the fruit on the tree, the deed that we plant decides our destiny. Therefore, if we are suffering, it is not because of God, it is because of the actions that we have performed. The sins that we have committed, the bad deeds we have planted in our life are manifesting, are appearing today as circumstances that are causing us to suffer. We have to learn to accept them, redeem them and do good deeds to change the trajectory of suffering into a trajectory of peace, bliss, and happiness. And let us not blame God.