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Why is there suffering if God is real?
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<blockquote data-quote="Living Vine" data-source="post: 77639639" data-attributes="member: 27079"><p>Several have discussed the aspect of free will. If you were creating someone to love you in a true way, you must create them with the ability to choose you or not, and then you must live with the results of their choice. It can't be any other way, for true love and a healthy, mutual relationship to take place.</p><p></p><p>But I think there's also the aspect of dominion as conveyed in Genesis 1:26. There God said He was making man in His own likeness, and that man was to have dominion over the earth. This was delegated authority, given to man. So here too, man had that choice as to whether to obey God. When man didn't obey the command not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, he lost his authority over the earth and gave that to the enemy. God had said that man would die if he ate that tree, so all the calamities and suffering came along with that bad choice. It had to be that way. </p><p></p><p>But hallelujah! Christ came to restore us and remove the curse of our bad choice!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Living Vine, post: 77639639, member: 27079"] Several have discussed the aspect of free will. If you were creating someone to love you in a true way, you must create them with the ability to choose you or not, and then you must live with the results of their choice. It can't be any other way, for true love and a healthy, mutual relationship to take place. But I think there's also the aspect of dominion as conveyed in Genesis 1:26. There God said He was making man in His own likeness, and that man was to have dominion over the earth. This was delegated authority, given to man. So here too, man had that choice as to whether to obey God. When man didn't obey the command not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, he lost his authority over the earth and gave that to the enemy. God had said that man would die if he ate that tree, so all the calamities and suffering came along with that bad choice. It had to be that way. But hallelujah! Christ came to restore us and remove the curse of our bad choice! [/QUOTE]
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