Why So Much Suffering? - WHY GOD ALLOWS SUFFERING

In the garden of Eden, the Devil misled Adam and Eve. Satan accused God of being a bad Ruler.  He claimed that God was keeping something good from Adam and Eve. Satan wanted them to believe that he would be a better ruler than Jehovah and that they did not need God. - GENESIS 3:2-5.

Adam and Eve disobeyed Jehovah and rebelled against him.  They thought that they had the right to decide for themselves what was right and what was wrong.  How could Jehovah proved that the rebels were wrong and that he knows what is best for us?

Jehovah didn't destroy Adam and Eve immediately.  Instead, he allowed them  to have children.  Then Jehovah made it possible for the children of Adam and Eve to choose whom they wanted as their ruler. Jehovah's purpose was to fill the earth with perfect people and that was going to happen no matter what the Devil tried to do. - GENESIS 1:28; ISAIAH 55:10, 11.

Satan challenged Jehovah in front of millions of angels.  (Job 38:7; Daniel 7:10.)   So Jehovah gave Satan time to prove whether his accusation was true.,  He also gave humans time to set up their own governments under Satan's guidance to show whether they could be successful without God's help.  

For thousands of years, humans have tried to rule themselves, but they have failed.  Satan has been proved a liar. Humans do need God's help.  The prophet Jeremiah was right when he said:  "I well know, O Jehovah, that man's way does not belong to him, it does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."  - JEREMIAH 10:23.

Next time: Why So Much Suffering? -WHY HAS JEHOVAH WAITED SO LONG? 

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