As different religions preach about which God is the right God and which bible is the right bible,
The classic case of the blind men and the elephant, everybody is going to see stuff differently depending on if they have a trunk in their hand or a tusk.
there are human beings that suffer each and everyday and has never seen nor heard the voice of any God. My question to chrstians are linked below....If God Really exist then why..........?
Sometimes suffering brings a person closer to God, too. Not always of course, but suffering is a great spiritual opportunity. When everything else fals out of your life, there's a sense of emptiness. Sometimes it can seem scary, but if you let go an fall into that emptiness, you might just find yourself caught in the grasp of great arms. The stumbling block of course is control... we are so used to being in control it is difficult to take that final step and that existential leap. It is almost like dying and being reborn.
I agree with what Albion says... we believe in a fallen world where all kinds of evil are present. Adam and Eve made a bad choice, they suffered for it. Cain made an even worse choice and murdered his brother out of jealousy, and soon all sorts of evil was brought into the world. People stopped caring about God and doing good. But God has made covenants with certain individuals, if you obey my laws, things will get better and I will bless you. He made the final covenant in Jesus Christ with the whole world, to set all things right. And now, Jesus is still looking for disciples to help him set things right. But we still have the power to not obey God and keep our part of the covenant, to not set things right. Too many people in this world do not follow Jesus, so that is why this world is the way it is.
There's a Roman Catholic feast day that starts before Christmas's Lenten season, called the feast of Christ the King. Pope Pious XI created it in 1925, partly as a result of the nationalism and secularism that came after WWI. His words were almost prophetic, unless men and women acknowledge Christ as King in this world, the horrors of war would continue. I think its a beautiful idea for a feast, and one that I wish more Protestants would celebrate it more openly; even though it is found in the Revised Common Lectionary most Protestants use, the specific circumstances surrounding the creation of the feast are not always emphasized. This is the feast to recognize not only that Jesus Christ is our Savior, but that he is also our Lord and King, and that we cannot be true Christians until we start to live the kind of life Jesus wants of us, to be healers in this world, his hands and feet in a world of sin and suffering.
