If the Creator Cares, Why So Much Suffering? - Undoing the Worst Suffering

The Creator has the solution. He is the Maker of the universe and of human life here on earth. He can do what is beyond  human ability or what humans are only starting to realize is possible. Consider just two examples of this.

We have the potential to live endlessly. The Bible clearly holds out the prospect  of receiving everlasting life from God.  (John 3:16; 17:3)  After studying the genes in human cells, Dr. Michael Fossel reported that the quality of male reproductive cells does not deteriorate with age.  "The genes we already possess, properly expressed, can maintain our cells without aging."  That harmonizes with what we saw in Chapter 4, that our brains have a capacity hardly even touched  in a present life span; they seem designed to function endlessly.  These, of course, are just side points, supplemental to what the Bible says directly-Jehovah will make it possible for us to live forever without suffering. Notice what he promises in the final book  of the Bible: "[God] will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor  outcry  nor pain be anymore." -Revelation 21:4.

The Creator is capable to helping someone who suffered and died-bringing him back to life, resurrecting him.  Lazarus was one who was resurrected.  (John 11:17-45; see pages 158-60)  Professor Donald MacKay used the illustration of a computer file.  He wrote that the destruction of a computer does not necessarily mean the permanent end of an equation or  a process that was on it. The same equation or process could be put into a new computer and run there "if the mathematician so desires."  Professor MacKay continued:  "Mechanistic brain science would seem to raise equally little objection to  the hope of eternal life expressed in [the Bible], with its characteristic emphasis on the "resurrection.' "  If a human died, the Creator could later bring him back to life, as he did with Jesus and as Jesus did with Lazarus.  MacKay concluded that a person's death would pose  no barrier to his being restored to life in a new body "if our Creator so wishes."'

Next time: If the Creator Cares, Why So Much Suffering?  Conclusion of  Undoing the Worst Suffering

From the book: Is There a Creator That Cares About You?