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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Bad things happen because we live in a fallen world, and because each one of us gives in to our sinful impulses, some more than others.[/b] Christian teaching is that Christ came, died and was resurrected to give us a perfect future for eternity after the time when God will bring into judgment every deed that is committed on this earth. This eternal future is open to all who will accept Christ and put their hope in him. You can be sure that God will judge everything that is done, and that he is a God of justice. The mistake is in thinking that this world is all there is or ever will be and that people can get away with things.

Perhaps you can meditate on 2 Corinthians 4 and decide whether you will accept the Christian answer on suffering:

"But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed. ... So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self his being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
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I'm sorry, are you saying that the severe, disfiguring congenital defect that I've lived with every day of my life, and that will someday make me immobile and shorten my life, is a result of somebody's sin?  Obviously I didn't ask to be conceived and yes, i know all about the concept of original sin but I gotta say that the idea that I have to live with this poor excuse for a body just because Adam accepted an apple from Eve (or because my parents did something bad, is that what you're suggesting?) is pretty disconcerting.   Personally I don't want to be the pawn in some being's "plan" for me, nor to be associated with that being who could stop all suffering with the blink of an eye but chooses not to.

And as for some magical marvelous eternity that we'll all be floating around in after death, I don't understand how that makes up for the crappy years that so many people spend suffering here on earth through no fault of their own.  Why put people through such misery, what in fact is the point of earth?  And what about all those who get a relatively nice, cushy life here on earth and then get to go to heaven and bask in god's light just like those who suffered?  Seems very unfair.

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