[Izzy Dunne]

Misery is your fault Mr Fry.

So, the child's bone cancer is the child's own fault?

Or is that Mr. Fry's fault?

Not sure what you're saying here.

[DJ MacWoW]

Man chose sin in the garden and unleashed evil in the world. Apparently Mr Fry chooses sin also.

[Albion Wilde]

So, the child's bone cancer is the child's own fault? Or is that Mr. Fry's fault?

I think he's saying that a loving God would not allow suffering to occur to innocents. (Usually the same crowd who think abortion is a woman's right to choose, but I digress.) Such shallow-thinking people believe "people are basically good." They have no perspective on the scriptural advice that sin, starting with the first humans and compounding year by year since then, has caused corruption in this world; and that living in a fallen world, "we all sin and fall short of the glory of God." They understand a computer virus corrupting their laptop's demand for mathematical numeric perfection, but not God's requirement to be "perfect, even as God is perfect."

A suffering child is a symptom of a world in sin, not a characteristic of God's ultimate desire for humankind. Christ came to teach us about the life eternal beyond this life of suffereing and death. He died like a man to redeem us from humanity's unavoidable sin.

[DeltaZulu]

Through one MAN’s transgression (Adam) sin entered into man, and through sin, death. Satan instigated the man and history is just an endless repetition of this same trap. Hence all death (diseases are just death in slow motion) is the result of Satan’s operation in man. No one is suggesting that children caused or deserved these diseases, but it is man’s failure nonetheless.

Sadly what many even believers fail to realize is that it is a mercy to live and to have the opportunity to receive the gospel. God is within His full right to simply discard fallen humanity. But instead He gives man a chance to bypass judgement simply by acknowledging that He has already paid the price.

Men are foolish in their judgement and trade a few years pleasure for hundreds of thousands of years of judgement. Likewise they make foolish accusstions against God for allowing a few years suffering to gain hundreds of thousands of years of joy.