I wrote a defense response to suffering. I’m bringing this…

I wrote a defense response to suffering. I’m bringing this to the body for edification. Please let me know If you spot something wrong or think I should change something. I do not want to say the wrong thing. I would like to know your opinions. I do mention free will. Please let’s not get into a unfruitful argument about it. Weather you are a strong predestination or free will believer. If you deny God you are to blame. Thank you ?

SUFFERING RESPONSE

Trials and distress are not something unusual in life; they are part of what it means to be human in a fallen world.

God allows evil and suffering. He is not the cause of evil and suffering. Satan is.

Satan is a rival of God, who fights against God’s plan of salvation. He wants you to turn your back on God. Satan wants you in Hell. That’s his plan. He is at war with God for your soul. If your shaking your fist at God then Satan is winning.

God has given us free will to believe and accept Him. Without evil and suffering in our presence there would be no choice.

Categories: #ourCOG Tags: defense, suffering

6 comments

Grace Williams says:

May 15, 2020 at 8:29 am

I like it very much.

Joe Fazzio says:

May 15, 2020 at 9:58 am

I find this statement to be factual we all have a choice to make . Free Will is important as God wants us to choose Him without being forced this is why we have free will . Are walk with God is a Daily thing we must die to sin Daily and have fellowship not only with our Lord but with others that believe like we do . This is something that is needed to keep us connected to God and our walk . We may loose our way but we only have to go to God and ask Him for forgiveness to renew your Connection to God . We must remember God can’t look at sin this is why it is so important to Die daily. It’s a choice we all must make .

Deborah Alessi says:

May 15, 2020 at 10:14 am

I agree with you

Michael Moos says:

May 16, 2020 at 3:43 pm

I would disagree “God isn’t the cause of suffering.” He uses suffering through Scripture as punishment and reproof and in our own lives now. One would have to define suffering. The WCF terms it like this: “God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass: yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established”. Man is rightly culpable for all his unrighteous acts, because they are freely chosen. God is the decretal cause of everything. God through His decrees also permits sin and suffering, the former by our free will and the latter through various conduits. His direct hand or Satan, rulers, animals etc…

Ntshabele Pooe says:

May 16, 2020 at 3:49 pm

I wish you can further define the suffering you speak of – it must be clear that it is suffering for HIM or His word. Not any other suffering. Some people do wrong and when they get punished or caught they want to classify it as suffering for the Lord. The difference must be very clear. Thanks for a start.

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Grace Williams says:

May 15, 2020 at 8:29 am

I like it very much.

Joe Fazzio says:

May 15, 2020 at 9:58 am

I find this statement to be factual we all have a choice to make . Free Will is important as God wants us to choose Him without being forced this is why we have free will . Are walk with God is a Daily thing we must die to sin Daily and have fellowship not only with our Lord but with others that believe like we do . This is something that is needed to keep us connected to God and our walk . We may loose our way but we only have to go to God and ask Him for forgiveness to renew your Connection to God . We must remember God can’t look at sin this is why it is so important to Die daily. It’s a choice we all must make .

Deborah Alessi says:

May 15, 2020 at 10:14 am

I agree with you

Michael Moos says:

May 16, 2020 at 3:43 pm

I would disagree “God isn’t the cause of suffering.” He uses suffering through Scripture as punishment and reproof and in our own lives now. One would have to define suffering. The WCF terms it like this: “God, from all eternity, did, by the most wise and holy counsel of His own will freely, and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass: yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures; nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established”. Man is rightly culpable for all his unrighteous acts, because they are freely chosen. God is the decretal cause of everything. God through His decrees also permits sin and suffering, the former by our free will and the latter through various conduits. His direct hand or Satan, rulers, animals etc…

Ntshabele Pooe says:

May 16, 2020 at 3:49 pm

I wish you can further define the suffering you speak of – it must be clear that it is suffering for HIM or His word. Not any other suffering. Some people do wrong and when they get punished or caught they want to classify it as suffering for the Lord. The difference must be very clear. Thanks for a start.

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February 25, 2021 at 7:00 pm

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