Why does God allows suffering

Maybe God wants to test us ?

I am sorry, but i am lost with all the answers i read... What is God? ... I've never seen it, never smelled it, never heard its voice.... is it a living being or is it a Santa Claus? I know my parents, they help me when i am in trouble, I know my friends, they advise me when i am stupid I know my life partner, she is there when i need a shoulder... you see... the fact is all these stories of Satan and God and their fight (if they exist)... why the hell are we dragged into it....? seems Satan and God has difference of opinion... and for that the one who suffers is us.... Apparently non of these god/s or satan/s can finish each other off once in for all... Both seem to be fighting for their own ideologies, we on the contrary are nothing but an instrument to toy along? ... is that what we are? can we not be good to others if we weren't forced to be so? are we so primitive that wouldn't we help our neighbors in the time of adversity? I think i am living a good life without all this God stuff... you must've figured by now... i am an atheist.... and i rather concentrate on 10 suggestions with a free will rather than 10 commandments with fake free will. Cheers!

I believe that suffering is an OPTION. It's still a choice and i choose not to be a victim and not to suffer. It's a matter of perspective and mind setting. really!...Some people might smirk and say you don't know unless you are in such a situation. Maybe. But growing up in a third world country, in a squatters area, where there was no water, where there was just one privy shared by the entire neighborhood, where health care is just but a dream, where hunger is a given thing in our daily existence, where good education is for the few and privileged and where criminal elements resides in every corner, i think, gave me the proper setting to be a victim and suffer. But my family and I chose not to let ourselves suffer and get ourselves from such existence. I find choosing to suffer so negative and stressful that i have to do everything in my power not to suffer. Instead, I choose to take action because i believe that i am not really meant to suffer. I may not be able to control my environment, but how i deal or respond to them is entirely my own.

Because sometimes bad things happen to good people. God does not "punish" with bad things. Satan is the deciever and author of lies. He is the destructive force on this earth. You will come out of all the pain and be a much stronger person. You will say what Job said: But God knows the way that I take, and when He tested me. I will come out like gold (Job 23:10).

Is often said, bus has he ever said or promised it to you..? i go black&white as you:P

God is not fully omnipotent. His omnipotency is constrained by our free will. Unfortunately there are people whose free will causes bad things to happen to us. God can't always help this, and he cannot take sides. However, he will provide support to whoever needs it.

Perhaps God allows suffering so that we recognize and better appreciate the good things in our life.......(that is, if you believe in God and/or believe that God is good).........

Hi Urbandekay, I've always believed that "as God suffered on the cross, so must we". Sometimes when bad things have happened I would find myself saying, "why me?" But then I thought, well if not me than it would be someone else...and I personally never wish bad things on anyone...because I also believe that what goes around, comes around and wishing misfortune on others will only come back at meor my daughters! Good topic Urban, thanks. ~G~

sometimes suffering is the measured if how faith we are to God.

God always gives away whatever they want, ones who are not god's close child or not his favourite ones, because he dont mind them struggle but god never gives what ever his children wants, because he wants them to struggle..more and more everytime, so that they become capable of getting the things by themselves and never ask anyone anything not even him. he wants us to suffer so that we can stand strong in our future, he wants us to fall down, and he is there to hold us everytime we do.. its not that he doesnt love us. its only that he loves us deeply but we need to recognise it well on time. :)

God dont make us suffer but God test us by many thing for test how much our strength and love to Him.Will we forget Him?So that's why God test us with little suffer for we remember and pray to God.Today,many people forget to God and make many cruel thing without think God is watching them.....