Is God bothered by human and animal suffering?

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Is God bothered by human and animal suffering?

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Or is God indifferent to it?
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Re: Is God bothered by human and animal suffering?

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God isn't bothered by it. He sees the "big picture" and we don't.

Oh, except Jesus. Jesus felt all our pain and suffering. He cares.
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Re: Is God bothered by human and animal suffering?

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just me wrote:God isn't bothered by it. He sees the "big picture" and we don't.

Oh, except Jesus. Jesus felt all our pain and suffering. He cares.

If God dislikes sin, how does Jesus' suffering wipe away sin unless God likes suffering?
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Re: Is God bothered by human and animal suffering?

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God loves suffering. He wants you to live this life suffering as a prude while you watch all the wicked people have fun and enjoy life. Then in the afterlife all the wicked people who enjoyed this life will suffer for eternity while God and the prudes look on and say, "I told you so".

But really, how could eternity in a heaven full of prudes be anything but more suffering?
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Re: Is God bothered by human and animal suffering?

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sock puppet wrote:
just me wrote:God isn't bothered by it. He sees the "big picture" and we don't.

Oh, except Jesus. Jesus felt all our pain and suffering. He cares.

If God dislikes sin, how does Jesus' suffering wipe away sin unless God likes suffering?


It's like a riddle. HF loves suffering....Jesus hates it. Opposition in all things? LOL yeah, I dunno.
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Re: Is God bothered by human and animal suffering?

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just me wrote:God isn't bothered by it. He sees the "big picture" and we don't.

Oh, except Jesus. Jesus felt all our pain and suffering. He cares.
sock puppet wrote:If God dislikes sin, how does Jesus' suffering wipe away sin unless God likes suffering?
just me wrote:It's like a riddle. HF loves suffering....Jesus hates it. Opposition in all things? LOL yeah, I dunno.
Funny, I thought it was good v evil that was opposition in all things, not the father v the son.
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Re: Is God bothered by human and animal suffering?

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You have a lot of explaining to do before anyone can address your question. Assuming you are serious, which I doubt.
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Re: Is God bothered by human and animal suffering?

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Well. You know. We murder millions of His creations on a daily basis in a vile and ruthless manner, creatures who can feel pain and fear, but, you know... We need their flesh for hamburgers.

God totally hooked us up.

Though He screwed them over. *cringe*
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Re: Is God bothered by human and animal suffering?

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Well. You know. We murder millions of His creations on a daily basis in a vile and ruthless manner, creatures who can feel pain and fear, but, you know... We need their flesh for hamburgers.

God totally hooked us up.

Though He f****d them over. *cringe*

So you're not serious. Okay. Fair enough.
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Re: Is God bothered by human and animal suffering?

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Hello, Hoops.

Of course I'm serious.

Following your mindset God created animals who can feel pain, suffering, and fear to be slaughtered by His most beloved creation... Man.

Are you serious?
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Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
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