God Has Reasons for Suffering

God has motive for everything that happens whether or not we human beings can see or perceive them. God always has justification for suffering as well even if we believe that there is none. It is overbearing for human beings to even think that we could perceive the reasons of God for suffering. If a human believes that only because they can not find any acceptable reason that God would have for suffering that they can make a conclusion that there is no omni benevolent god, then he is absolutely wrong. If human beings could know and understand everything that God does they would stand on the same stage of understanding and logic as God, which is not possible for humans are surely not almighty, all knowing and all loving. It is unwise to think that human beings could possibly perceive God’s reasons.

Although many examples of suffering exist that seem to be senseless, there is in fact meaning even in the suffering that appears to be the most meaningless. God is interested in the happiness and welfare of all his creatures. He as a consequence has good and loving reasons for permitting suffering. The examples of suffering that seem to have no sense or if there is sense the reasons are not good enough to permit suffering, include permitting a child to suffer or permitting a deer to suffer alone before its death.

The suffering of a child is a horrible thing, but only because it is such a horrible thing does not mean that there is no meaning or good in it. Similarly, the terrible suffering of an animal being alone in the wood is a terrible thing and also seems to have no meaning. But, sense and good exist even in the most horrible examples of suffering.