If God has a plan for us, then is it God's plan for people to suffer?
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God doesn't plan your life he just knows your decisions and its outcomes before you do. We have free will and common sense a gift or blessing God gave to all of us. But our sufferings on earth doesn't have any comparisons to our paradise in heaven!
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of course as we may probably know, God promise that he will be with us every day until the end of the world, because we sins so much he can't come directly to work miracle for us so when someone pray for the world to be bless he answer that prayer by working miracle through people that are reverant to him for those who seek for it
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You're thinking about Job, and it's actually a long story.\n\nIn the end, Job was blessed for his suffering, even though he never knew why.\n\nJob was shown for the type man he was for our learning, not to prove Satan wrong.  He's an excellent example for us in suffering.  Sometimes we do suffer as the result of evil being in the world and sometimes we are tested because others think our service to God is hypocrisy and we would deny God if our privilege was taken away.\n\nIn the end, Job has a better understanding of God, Whom he loves and has worshipped consistently all his life. \n\nHis story shows us that suffering is not always the result of personal sin; riches are not always proof of God's approval and the lack of them is not always proof of His disapproval; disaster is not always judgement; our obedience is not just a personal matter - our examples affect others (all beliefs his friends held, and many still hold today).\n\nWe don't always get why God does things, but we learn from Job that God is in control, He considers us even though He allows us to be tempted, and that He is with us (read the end of the book) even when we are suffering.\n\nIn John 12:27-28 Jesus says, “Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? But for this purpose I came to this hour. Father, glorify Your name.”  This is right before He was taken to be beaten and crucified.  Sometimes when going through a trial or grief, I consider that my purpose may be to go through the trial in a godly way.  How I deal with adversity may be my single greatest achievement, and more important than anything else I accomplish.  It may serve to bring someone else to Christ.  If my temporary suffering aides in bringing about someone else's eternal reward, that helps to put it in perspective.
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I totally think so.  How can you justify "having faith" and financially planning?  Did Christ financially plan?  Or his disciples?  For more than money for ministry?  But of course we all know we must financially plan, or else be headed for disaster.  Another example of difficulty of interpretation.
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.god has a master plan to which only he has the blue prints. it's not so much for us to understand be to have faith and believe in him
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Both.\n\nWe are predestined for God's glory, meaning God has a plan for every life he created.  This plan is to further his Glory and to perform great things through us.\n\nWe have free will.  We chose if we are to walk this path or choose not too.\n\nSince God exists outside of time, he already knows what is going to happen.  But it is still OUR choice to walk in obedience or walk in the world.
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No one can tell you God's plan for your life.  God will reveal it to you and you alone at a time and place when you seek Him/Her.  It may not be a message you want to hear and it may not contain all the information you need.\n\nBe still and seek it for yourself.
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Yes.  Someone above thinks God is merciful for letting us live -- that is NOT always the case.  Go to the hospitals and see those begging to be set free from their lives of pain and misery.  So, yes, "life" could be more merciful since I'm sure "God" doesn't exist (except in the imagination).
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Well. I think your right. god would not do what you described.\nGod, can do many things tho'.\n\nBe sure which god, God you have these feelings from.\n\n.
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It is not true that whatever we do, God gets it done by us.\nU don't see God Gave us free will But also Showed the right path...\n\nSo whatever we do is our own deeds.. If we do good, God is happy with us,\n& if we do bad deeds, God Obviously will punish!\n\n\nJust take this example..\nGod is our Creater...\nSimilarly A person or an electronics company creates a TV or VCR of DVD Player...\n\nSO ..\nThe company give an instruction manual with its product..\njust like God sent us to this world with Bible/ Quran etc..\n\nNow see!\nWhen the VCR does not work properly, we take it to a repair shop, if it does not still work properly, we throw it in trash...\nTHIS is a punishment for the VCR...\nSimilarly, when we dont follow the instructions from GOD, God will punish us.
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I think I know what you are saying... it has been my thought too... but with a different final conclusion....life can be hell..we can all go through persecution and our own battles of armagedon. It feel like god has left us....\n\nthe scripture also says he who endures to the end will be saved.. it also says to the church of smyrna (church of martyrs) and the church of philadelphia (weak, suffering but faithful) that they will be kept from the hour of temptation that will come upon all the earth.  The marytyrs will already be dead, and the philadephians will be raptured. Everyone else in the church will have to go through their own tribulation, and be tested, since they avoided it earlier.\n\nSo my viewpoint is that if we are willing to go through tribulation for our faith now, we will be spared from the great tribulation that is to come in the near future. Everyone has to be tested for their faithfulness...\n\nif you are suffering now, your hope is in your heavenly reward to come, and the promise that you will be taken out before the world plunges into total wickedness.
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God can touch or heal according to his will, and often does.\nWe cannot know all things as God does - but he never wills harm to anyone, it is not possible for him because of who he is.\nThe reason we have awful things, wars, hunger, poverty, mental illness - is because we chose to rebel against God, to sin, and we live in the consequences of sin - in a broken world. Again, the terrible things of this world are not God's desire or will.\nHe would not create things to harm them - his way is love, forgives, grace, mercy.
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maybe. God uses hardships & struggle to build character to the person you might think has a 'hard life'. if he just hands over everything we want we dont learn anything.
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That is an often-asked question, and a fair one.  The distinction that needs to be made is that God is not somehow uncaring about suffering.\n\nSuffering comes from the original sin.  Sort of a snowball effect.  It began with the fall of man in the garden of Eden, and has gathered speed throughout thousands of years.  Illness, sorrow, death; all sin, are fallout from sin entering the world.\n\nThere will come a time when these things will be no more; when Jesus comes to rule and reign on earth.  Until He does, as He told us "you will have tribulation on this earth"..meaning, we will suffer.\n\nGod cares about us and our hurts, that is why, first and foremost He sent His son to redeem us...and it is also why we have God's spirit to comfort us, in all circumstances.
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God doesn't cause suffering we humans do by not obeying him.if u obey him u'll find peace in all situations and the wordly worries donot bother u anymore.i hope this story illustrates it better so read on...\n\n                      Existence of God\nThis is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen: A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. \n\nAs the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.\n\nThey talked about so many things and various subjects.\n\nWhen they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:\n\n"I don't believe that God exists."\n\n"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. \n\nTell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?\nWould there be abandoned children?\nIf God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.\nI can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."\n\nThe customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. \n\nThe barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.\n\nJust after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkept.\n\nThe customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist."\n\n"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber.   "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!" \n\n"No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."\n\n"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me."\n\n"Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."\n\nMay God guide u in the right way,ameen
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Ah, but by letting you suffer, the Lord IS letting you follow Jesus' example.  You haven't gone wrong.  See?
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No it isn't a good plan since it probably wasn't God's plan to begin with. The Bible was created by the church and by religious leaders. So the way God reaveals himself to humans is through personal experience with each one. Of course most of us won't realize that He is doing so.