Why Does God Allow Suffering

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Why Does God Allow Suffering?
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Aims

• Examples of Suffering
• The Origin of Suffering
• Mans Inhumanity to Man
• Time and Chance
• Gods Chastening
• Gods Suffering
• The End of Suffering

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What do we mean by Suffering?
Human Ailments Death, Illness Blindness,
Deafness, Dumb Disease
Society Terrorism Torture War, Fighting Ethnic
Tensions Crime
Natural Disaster Earthquakes, Volcanoes Tidal
Waves Draughts, Floods Starvation
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The Origin of Human Ailments

• Genesis 317-19
• Romans 512-21
• Romans 623
• 1 Corinthians 1522,55,56

• God has condemned all men women to death
  because they disobey his commandments

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Mans Inhumanity

• Genesis
• The First Murder