Why does God allow good people to suffer?
Today I answer the question "Why do God allow good people to suffer?" From Brah Bcube
The problem with your question is that it begins with a common misconception. God doesn’t allow bad things to happen to good people because there are no good people.
Romans 3:10-12
As it is written:
"There is none righteous, no, not one;
There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.
They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one."
Do you believe that a baby is innocent before God?
Not according to the scriptures.
Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.
Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
No one!
Job 15:14.
"What is man, that he could be pure? And he who is born of a woman, that he could be righteous? If God puts no trust in His saints, And the heavens are not pure in His sight, How much less man, who is abominable and filthy, Who drinks iniquity like water!
Job 25:4-6
How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be pure who is born of a woman? If even the moon does not shine,
And the stars are not pure in His sight, How much less man, who is a maggot, And a son of man, who is a worm?"
How do I know that all people including babies are not good but are wicked wretched filthy unclean unrighteous sinners?
Roma3:23
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 5:12
Death in Adam:
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
Romans 6:23
FOR THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Can you die? Can a baby die? The scriptures makes it clear and certain that only sinners die.
Everyone that can die are sinners and by default are not good!
Now, what does a good God do with evil ungodly people. He clothed Himself in human flesh, sacrificing that body to pay the eternal penalty of His righteous wrath that is reserved for all people who die with their sins still upon them.
Romans 5:6-11
Christ in Our Place:
For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ DIED FOR THE UNGODLY. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that WHILE WE WERE STILL SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR YOU (US). Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
You asked the wrong question. The right question to ask is will you be reconciled to God or will you continue to believe that you are a good person?
2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
God punished the man Jesus as if He committed all your sins and is ready to give you Jesus’s righteousness if you would confess that you are a sinner in need of a Savior and not good, and believe that God because of Christ can and will forgive and save you.
Jesus says you will have to go to hell climbing over my dead and resurrected body.
Will you be reconciled to God through Jesus right now?