This is mean

[jukebox]

I thought I was the only person around that called Jesus Yeshua. I learned it while delusional. I hope you don’t mind me asking but are you a Jewish Christian? I only ask because that Yeshua is the Jewish word for Jesus.

[Csummers]

I understand what your saying, and I do agree, still.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[anon62310808]

The explanation is rather lengthly. I am more than willing to invite you to read the following paragraphs.

WHY SO MUCH SUFFERING?

5 People of various religions have gone to their religious leaders and teachers to ask why there is so much suffering. Often, the response is that suffering is God’s will and that he long ago determined everything that would ever happen, including tragic events. Many are told that God’s ways are mysterious or that he brings death upon people—even children—so that he can have them in heaven with him. As you have learned, though, Jehovah God never causes what is bad. The Bible says: “Far be it from the true God to act wickedly, and the Almighty to act unjustly!”—Job 34:10.

6 Do you know why people make the mistake of blaming God for all the suffering in the world? In many cases, they blame Almighty God because they think that he is the real ruler of this world. They do not know a simple but important truth that the Bible teaches. You learned that truth in Chapter 3 of this book. The real ruler of this world is Satan the Devil.

7 The Bible clearly states: “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” (1 John 5:19) When you think about it, does that not make sense? This world reflects the personality of the invisible spirit creature who is “misleading the entire inhabited earth.” (Revelation 12:9) Satan is hateful, deceptive, and cruel. So the world, under his influence, is full of hatred, deceit, and cruelty. That is one reason why there is so much suffering.

8 A second reason why there is so much suffering is that, as discussed in Chapter 3, mankind has been imperfect and sinful ever since the rebellion in the garden of Eden. Sinful humans tend to struggle for dominance, and this results in wars, oppression, and suffering. (Ecclesiastes 4:1; 8:9) A third reason for suffering is “time and unforeseen occurrence.” (Ecclesiastes 9:11) In a world without Jehovah as a protective Ruler, people may suffer because they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

9 It is comforting for us to know that God does not cause suffering. He is not responsible for the wars, the crimes, the oppression, or even the natural disasters that cause people to suffer. Still, we need to know, Why does Jehovah allow all this suffering? If he is the Almighty, he has the power to stop it. Why, then, does he hold back? The loving God that we have come to know must have a good reason.—1 John 4:8.

A VITAL ISSUE IS RAISED

10 To find out why God allows suffering, we need to think back to the time when suffering began. When Satan led Adam and Eve into disobeying Jehovah, an important question was raised. Satan did not call into question Jehovah’s power. Even Satan knows that there is no limit to Jehovah’s power. Rather, Satan questioned Jehovah’s right to rule. By calling God a liar who withholds good from his subjects, Satan charged that Jehovah is a bad ruler. (Genesis 3:2-5) Satan implied that mankind would be better off without God’s rulership. This was an attack on Jehovah’s sovereignty, his right to rule.

11 Adam and Eve rebelled against Jehovah. In effect, they said: ‘We do not need Jehovah as our Ruler. We can decide for ourselves what is right and what is wrong.’ How could Jehovah settle that issue? How could he teach all intelligent creatures that the rebels were wrong and that his way truly is best? Someone might say that God should simply have destroyed the rebels and made a fresh start. But Jehovah had stated his purpose to fill the earth with the offspring of Adam and Eve, and he wanted them to live in an earthly paradise. (Genesis 1:28) Jehovah always fulfills his purposes. (Isaiah 55:10, 11) Besides that, getting rid of the rebels in Eden would not have answered the question that had been raised regarding Jehovah’s right to rule.

12 Let us consider an illustration. Imagine that a teacher is telling his students how to solve a difficult problem. A clever but rebellious student claims that the teacher’s way of solving the problem is wrong. Implying that the teacher is not capable, this rebel insists that he knows a much better way to solve the problem. Some students think that he is right, and they also become rebellious. What should the teacher do? If he throws the rebels out of the class, what will be the effect on the other students? Will they not believe that their fellow student and those who joined him are right? All the other students in the class might lose respect for the teacher, thinking that he is afraid of being proved wrong. But suppose that the teacher allows the rebel to show the class how he would solve the problem.

13 Jehovah has done something similar to what the teacher does. Remember that the rebels in Eden were not the only ones involved. Millions of angels were watching. (Job 38:7; Daniel 7:10) How Jehovah handled the rebellion would greatly affect all those angels and eventually all intelligent creation. So, what has Jehovah done? He has allowed Satan to show how he would rule mankind. God has also allowed humans to govern themselves under Satan’s guidance.

14 The teacher in our illustration knows that the rebel and the students on his side are wrong. But he also knows that allowing them the opportunity to try to prove their point will benefit the whole class. When the rebels fail, all honest students will see that the teacher is the only one qualified to lead the class. They will understand why the teacher thereafter removes any rebels from the class. Similarly, Jehovah knows that all honesthearted humans and angels will benefit from seeing that Satan and his fellow rebels have failed and that humans cannot govern themselves. Like Jeremiah of old, they will learn this vital truth: “I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step.”—Jeremiah 10:23.

WHY SO LONG?

15 Why, though, has Jehovah allowed suffering to go on for so long? And why does he not prevent bad things from happening? Well, consider two things that the teacher in our illustration would not do. First, he would not stop the rebel student from presenting his case. Second, the teacher would not help the rebel to make his case. Similarly, consider two things that Jehovah has determined not to do. First, he has not stopped Satan and those who side with him from trying to prove that they are right. Allowing time to pass has thus been necessary. In the thousands of years of human history, mankind has been able to try every form of self-rule, or human government. Mankind has made some advances in science and other fields, but injustice, poverty, crime, and war have grown ever worse. Human rule has now been shown to be a failure.

16 Second, Jehovah has not helped Satan to rule this world. If God were to prevent horrible crimes, for instance, would he not, in effect, be supporting the case of the rebels? Would God not be making people think that perhaps humans can govern themselves without disastrous results? If Jehovah were to act in that way, he would become party to a lie. However, “it is impossible for God to lie.”—Hebrews 6:18.

17 What, though, about all the harm that has been done during the long rebellion against God? We do well to remember that Jehovah is almighty. Therefore, he can and will undo the effects of mankind’s suffering. As we have already learned, the ruining of our planet will be undone by the turning of the earth into Paradise. The effects of sin will be removed through faith in Jesus’ ransom sacrifice, and the effects of death will be reversed by means of the resurrection. God will thus use Jesus “to break up the works of the Devil.” (1 John 3:8) Jehovah will bring all of this about at just the right time. We can be glad that he has not acted sooner, for his patience has given us the opportunity to learn the truth and to serve him. (2 Peter 3:9, 10) Meanwhile, God has been actively seeking sincere worshipers and helping them to endure any suffering that may come upon them in this troubled world.—John 4:23; 1 Corinthians 10:13.

18 Some might wonder, Could all this suffering have been prevented if God had created Adam and Eve in such a way that they could not rebel? To answer that question, you need to remember a precious gift that Jehovah has given you.

HOW WILL YOU USE THE GIFT FROM GOD?

19 As was noted in Chapter 5, humans were created with free will. Do you realize what a precious gift that is? God has made countless animals, and these are driven largely by instinct. (Proverbs 30:24) Man has made some robots that can be programmed to follow every command. Would we be happy if God had made us like that? No, we are glad to have the freedom to make choices about what kind of person to become, what course of life to pursue, what friendships to form, and so on. We love to have a measure of freedom, and that is what God wants us to enjoy.

20 Jehovah is not interested in service performed under compulsion. (2 Corinthians 9:7) To illustrate: What would please a parent more—a child’s saying “I love you” because he is told to say it or his saying it freely from the heart? So the question is, How will you use the free will that Jehovah has given you? Satan, Adam, and Eve made the worst possible use of free will. They rejected Jehovah God. What will you do?

21 You have the opportunity to put the marvelous gift of free will to the best possible use. You can join the millions who have taken a stand on Jehovah’s side. They make God rejoice because they take an active part in proving Satan a liar and a miserable failure as a ruler. (Proverbs 27:11) You too can do that by choosing the right course of life. This will be explained in the next chapter.

Source: Official Website of Jehovah’s Witnesses

[crimby]

It seems that your answer is substantially saying that God lets us learn from our mistakes. The problem with that is that suffering often falls heavily on people who haven’t made mistakes. The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. In the movie “Slumdog Millionare” there is this man who collects children from the slums of India, cripples them, and then sends these children out to beg for him. He takes the money they got from begging. (They did that in Victorian England too.) These children have done nothing wrong. All the wrong is done by the man who blinds them or cripples them. Why do the children have to pay for his sins while the man who cripples these children thrives? This isn’t fiction. This is factually true. I might accept the argument that the Lord moves in mysterious ways, except that the intensity of much suffering cancels any possible benefit. Someone getting third degree burns over eighty per cent of his body is too harsh. What good could come of it? Someone might say that it teaches us to feel compassion, but why does it have to be so bad for the person with the burns? Compassion can do very little to ease his pain. Then, according to some religions, God allows us to experience intolerable suffering for eternity if we commit even minor sins. No one deserves to burn for eternity. (Except maybe for Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Tse Tung.) You say that God doesn’t prevent suffering so we can have free will. Suffering prevents free will. No one would willingly suffer the pain of cancer. God gave us a body with an enormous capacity to suffer, a belly that needs to be filled, and a sex drive that does more to torment us than enhance us. Then, if we commit even a minor sin, God condemns us to intolerable suffering for eternity. That is not free will.

[anon62310808]

Thank you for letting me know your opinion.

Please be assured that the teaching of eternal suffering in the intorelable hell is not scriptural. What the Bible really teaches is, as we read in Romans 6:23
“For the wages sin pays is death, but the gift God gives is everlasting life by Christ Jesus our Lord.”

And the truth about the dead can be found in Ecclesiastes 9:5
“For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, nor do they have any more reward, because all memory of them is forgotten.”

The fact is everyone inherited imperfection from our ancestors, Adam and Eve. Romans 5:12
“That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned.”

But God has never abandon us. John 3:16
“For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.”

The Bible foretold in Revelation 21:3,4 what our future will be like.
"With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

[crimby]

You’ve obviously read the Bible more than I have. You hear about hell fire and damnation so much from fundamentalist Christians that I assumed there must be a lot said about it in the Bible. Now that I think about it, this book doesn’t say that much about hell. A lot of Christians sure emphasize it, though.

[anon62310808]

I am glad that you had decided to rethink about it. Thank you for your compliment, my Bible knowledge is the result of studying the God’s Word with Jehovah’s Witnesses. They are offering it for free worldwide. You can request it through their Web site at jw.org, too.

[flybottle]

What if we should not only have faith in God that he will stop evil and misery, but that rather God has faith in us that we will stop it ourselves?

[crimby]

There is a lot of misery that isn’t mad made and that we can’t stop. A typhoon hits Bangla Desh and leaves a million homeless. Twenty-five-thousand die in a tsunami. A hurricane kills thousands and leaves thousands homeless. An earthquake in Tahiti kills hundreds of thousands. I could go on and on. Humanity is killed as much by things it can’t control as it is by things it can.

[nykia]

@jukebox

I thought I was the only person around that called Jesus Yeshua. I learned it while delusional. I hope you don’t mind me asking but are you a Jewish Christian? I only ask because that Yeshua is the Jewish word for Jesus.

I do not go to church and have studied online. Some studies include the Voice of the Martyrs online classroom–where I have had indepth studies in the purpose of prayer and all studies are free, Stephen Armstrong’s Verse by Verse Ministry in podcasts–he makes you feel like you are right there in that time–. I have also read secular books and other types of religious books that reference to YHWH. Such one being The Construction of Homosexuality by an author who supports homosexuality but will not denigrate the Faiths. In that book, which begins in pre-history, women did not have much respect, except for in the Hebrew faith.

To answer your question, I am not a Jewish Christian. I was just taught Yeshua’s name is Yeshua. Oh–but I do warm to the folks over at the website Light of Zion.

[darksith]

you are born …you die.
inbetween those two points you do alot of thinking…
there is no right or wrong there just ’ is '.
take care