Hi hiveans, so good to share our thoughts on something interesting like this once again. Great work from @ecotrain and the admins for your consistent work.
Firstly I'd like to make this clear by saying there's God and he lives in heaven. The reason why I said this is that some of us might be doubting if there's actually a God and if he does exist. Yes he does.
I'll be explaining why there's so much suffering in the world today. Now I believe suffering is rampant in the world we live in now and the major reason or cause why is it like that is because, man brought this upon theirselves right from the creation of man through sin.
You sometimes God himself allows suffering just for us to come to him for help and give him Glory.
I believe God cursed man (Adam and eve) immediately they disobeyed him. He told them they'd struggle to get something in life. I believe he (God) gave man some rules to abide with through out their days on earth.
I believe we humans have forgotten that we have purpose in life. Sometimes these are the reasons why we suffer, because we don't know our way or we've lost our way to God. The love of God is enough for man not to suffer or go through any hardships in life. And of course sometimes God intentionally let these things happen to us, in order for us to come to him for help and free ourselves from suffering. He stated it in his words that. " Come to me all ye that labour and I shall give you everlasting rest ".
I also believe we suffer because we've lost our way as believers. Another thing not everybody can be rich or poor, some even say that this life is not balanced. I'd like to make this clear everything he(God) created is perfect cause he's a perfect God. If we know our way now, I'm speaking as a believer we won't for a day suffer. I know very well that some don't believe God exist but truth be told he actually does exist.
God didn't create or inflicted suffering on humans reason because, he created us in his own very image with love. You can't intentionally inflicts pain and suffering to the person you love dearly. So biblically speaking man was the intial reason why we suffer. God himself has called us to always come to him for help, salvation and freedom from suffering.
FACTORS THAT CAUSED SUFFERING
DISOBEDIENT
The level of obedience to God determines how close we're to him or the love we have for him. And of course you possibly be close to him and still suffer cause he won't allow such thing to happen to you. Hence, we must go close to him, love him and accept him as our maker in order for us not to go astray or suffer here on earth.
The disobedient of man (Adam and eve) in the early age of man creation brought suffering to man through sin. God himself promised us eternal life here on earth and in heaven but we destroyed everything with sin.
IGNORANCE
- Ignorance is another factor we should take a look at, that's not knowing right from wrong, our ways to God and understanding his word (Bible). Let's take a look at the case Hannah in the bible, she was literally suffering from barrenness, she cried to God for help and God answered her. God knows there's so much suffering and of course he can end it within the blink of an eye but he wants us (humans) to come to him as our creator cause all of our comes from him alone and no one else.
So suffering is already part of the world because we live in a fallen world where suffering has become a normality. I'm sure that's obviously not what God created or wants for us. Man (Adam and eve) literally turned this world to a fallen world with their sinful attitudes.
I hope I've been able to share small light on this. Believe me this is a great topic to discuss about. Thanks to the admin @ecotrain.