Why do we suffer in this Life?

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Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? (7 min)

Why is there animal suffering if there is a God? (1 hr)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9oNsHWCPQs

  • In this interview with Leo Winegar we discuss animal suffering and how to reconcile animal suffering specifically with an all loving and powerful God, and what is the purpose to their suffering on earth?

Why God Allows Evil and Suffering ( 1 hr 50 min)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8WnjaTl4mI

  • In today's episode Leo and I discuss the problem of Evil and Suffering. A wonderful discussion on why so much pain and suffering is allowed to happen in this life, if this life is in fact directed by a loving Father in Heaven.

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? (9 min and article)

Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? (15 min)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsLCd2l1wc

  • If there is a God and if God is all loving, wouldn't His followers have perfect lives? Why do bad things happen to good people? Shouldn't followers of Christ have it easy? Why am I punished for no reason? SO. MANY. QUESTIONS! And all valid. One of the most common questions that missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (otherwise known as Mormons) are asked is how God can exist if bad things happen? Especially to people who don't deserve hard things? In this episode, David, Mimi, and Justin talk about why they think bad things happen to good people.

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God … and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven”

Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle [1972], 98)