“a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones;
who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one;
who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short;
who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it;
who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body;
who mouths justice and invented hell—mouths mercy and invented hell—mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell;
who mouths morals to other people and has none himself;
who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all;
who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself;
and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!”
-Mark Twain
Who found fault with everything but himself.
One of the topics that isn’t discussed enough in the Christian church is why suffering happens. It’s very simple as to why it happens.
Our ears burn at the honest truth as to why it happens. Everything in life can be explained in terms of consequences.
God gave us the tools, through His Word and the natural world consequences the tools to build a nice world. A plentiful world. A world without pain and suffering.
How many of us live our lives that respect consequences and learn the rules of goodness, as defined by the Bible? Very few I say.
What is God supposed to do, outside of being a tyrant of the worst order to get us to live the kind of life where we make lives better?
The liberal thinks the solution to a good life requires tyranny and the willingness to kill people who fail to be good enough by the standard of the liberal. That is the liberal arguement for goodness and it comes straight from Satan.
God is not ignorant of suffering. He sees every one of his children when they are in pain and damaged in their ability to respond to goodness.
The angels were not spared. Those who held fast in Heaven, while their family and friends rebelled. They are going to see fellow angels that were once closely bonded to them be thrown in the hell fire and destroyed.
God has spared nobody, not even Himself. The reason being is that, when we get to Heaven and are translated and be given that second chance that we all wish we could have, we will by free will and choice, walk that narrow walk that is required for a paradisiacal eternity.