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Why do the good suffer is an old problem never satisfactorily solved. Logically, God is a different order of being about whom analogies to human thought, behaviors and feelings are not really valid.

We do have a leg up on that understanding that angels would not have, because we know that we are made in God’s image. So inasmuch as the image is faithful or restored, we DO get the picture that God does... only in miniature. That is one reason our hearts can be filled with a joy in God that is both divine and yet very familiarly human-contoured. God is not asking us to believe and conform our hearts to an alien Martian. God copied his blueprint, as it were, to us in miniature, except we can sin and he can’t.

God so loved the world that he gave his only son in order that man MIGHT be saved. Well, who “might” be saved? A “few” per Christ's own words. “Many”(translated Most)will go to “destruction”-The words of the one who was sent that the world might be saved. Neither God nor Christ will help you if you have the misfortune to be born into or acquire wealth. You have probably “bought the farm” if you refuse to give up your wealth to the prisoner, diseased, drunken drugged adulterers and deprive your innocent siblings, wife and children of their basic needs. Christ said it was easier to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven after he had observed the young virtuous rich man go away sorrowing, Christ interpreted the young man's actions as an abnormal love of money when maybe it was sorrow about his having to impoverish his family.

So we are really faced with many of us going to hell with God's and Christ's approval. There we will roast and pop screaming in pain for all eternity while God, Christ and the Saints will look down upon us with joy and pleasure. Remember Lazarus and "The Rich Man?"this of course make God and Christ a pair of sadist's The only hope being that maybe after God, Christ and the Saints become bored with watching the rest of us suffer God simply annihilates the many and thus gives them respite. That would be mercy.

In short, I"m not too impressed with what I read and hear about God's "love" about which some human love seems better.

God so loved the world that he gave his only son in order that man MIGHT be saved. Well, who “might” be saved? A “few” per Christ's own words. “Many”(translated Most)will go to “destruction”-The words of the one who was sent that the world might be saved. Neither God nor Christ will help you if you have the misfortune to be born into or acquire wealth. You have probably “bought the farm” if you refuse to give up your wealth to the prisoner, diseased, drunken drugged adulterers and deprive your innocent siblings, wife and children of their basic needs. Christ said it was easier to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven after he had observed the young virtuous rich man go away sorrowing, Christ interpreted the young man's actions as an abnormal love of money when maybe it was sorrow about his having to impoverish his family.

So we are really faced with many of us going to hell with God's and Christ's approval. There we will roast and pop screaming in pain for all eternity while God, Christ and the Saints will look down upon us with joy and pleasure. Remember Lazarus and "The Rich Man?" The only hope being that maybe after God, Christ and the Saints become bored with watching the rest of us suffer God simply annihilates