
If God Is Good, Why Does He Allow Suffering? (KJV)
Children are cruelly beaten. Men, women, and children all suffer from a variety of devastating diseases. People are tortured, ridiculed, and picked on. All of this sadness begs the question: “WHY?”To understand why our good God would allow suffering, we must go to His Word, the Holy Scriptures (the Bible). To a person who is truly open to hearing God’s Word and considering it, a whole lot of logic and sense comes pouring out when we start to read what it is that He wants us to know (Romans 10:17). In order to answer the question, we must understand the human condition.God is good and we are not. Due to the sin that we choose to commit, mankind has been separated from God. Because of our failure, everyone and everything in the universe is decaying and dying. The Human Condition(Sinfully Depraved and Condemned) God is Love (John 4:8,16), but God is also Holy (Matthew 5:48; Psalm 18:30; Hab. 1:13; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Deuteronomy 32:4; Isaiah 45:21). The biggest problem mankind has had wi