All the pain and suffering in the world is caused by humans and not by God. God has given us all the necessary capability and resources to make a world where no one starves but the choices that humans have made so far (or failed to make) continue to make famines a reality for others. Once all humans take responsibility for others suffering, things will change worldwide for the better. No one is going to come to our rescue, we have to do it ourselves. But humans continue to blame each other, look the other way or blame God for these conditions. If each of us thought of ourselves as a "god" (Psalms 82:6 "Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High" ), with the power to create the world we want, then we have no other excuses or others to blame for the conditions we call "negative" or "evil". God grants us freewill (which is cosmic law) and is an amazing gift but also comes with enormous repercussions and responsibility to others. Our souls are here for evolution and expansion of consciousness and freewill is the tool. Soul evolution is not about survival of the fittest either, quite the contrary. This world of relativity/duality provides for soul growth we are all here seeking. The bad things we see in this world are abhorrent but from a broader perspective the soul of those individuals caught temporarily in these situations of suffering are evolving to new levels we cannot even comprehend from a limited physical perspective. The perspective changes when you combine that with reincarnation, we are only seeing a small instance of one life in the grand scheme of countless additional lives both behind and ahead. The purpose of life is to evolve and there is perfection in the process of soul evolution even if we cannot possibly comprehend that from our limited view point of this imperfect world. This picture touched me deeply so thank you for sharing it and starting this conversation.
You all have a point and have made good, interesting and thought provoking posts. I agree with you all, ByLoSellHi, achilles28, stu and brocklanders. Since, truth is bitter, we all did rather turn our blind eye rather than accept the realities and continue the blame game.
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I strongly disagree. First let's be clear that we're talking about the God of Abraham and not some long-"dead" or regional-specific god like Zeus or Thor. We're talking about the so-called Creator of the universe. Until very recently in human history, humans had little or nothing to do with plagues, droughts, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, and other natural disasters. Think of all the pain and suffering those things have caused individually and collectively. The God of Abraham, the so-called benevolent creator, would have to be the vilest monster to reconcile his existence with all the misery that natural disasters have caused. Humans are responsible for a lot of pain and suffering but by no means all of it.