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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. 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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in other words, when it seems like there couldn't possibly be a God who has any regard for you at all, because of all the horrible things that have befallen you, take heart that this same god promises you an eternal life after you're dead -- assuming humans are different from all other animals that die and return to the earth.  Have faith in some verses in an ancient book of myths. Disregard common sense, logic and the rules of science.[/quote]

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