by Patricia Skinner

Created on: March 04, 2009   Last Updated: March 06, 2009

If God really cares about us, why does he allow the pain and suffering that there is in this world today? This is a question that has been asked by millions of people everywhere. Can the answer be found to this question? Yes, it can!

You may ask, where?

Think about it! If you want to find the answer to a medical question, where would you go? You would go to either a medical professional, or a medical dictionary or encyclopaedia. You would not go to the man or woman who works in carpentry to get a pottery dish made up.

It is the same with the question about "why are we here?" As God is the Grand Creator of the universe and all life that exists, then surely, we should go to him for answers. But where are these answers? We cannot see God to ask him face to face. So how can we ask him for answers?

Well, God gave us his Word, the Bible. It is his letter to his human family. In it, he tells us about himself, his name, his personality, his character and more importantly, he gives us guidance on how to live our lives in such a way that we benefit ourselves from following his counsel.

If the first man, Adam had taken that course and listened to God; we would not be in the predicament we find ourselves in today. The world would not be in such a mess that man has no idea what to do next. Through Adam's selfish course in disobeying God's only command to "not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and bad." (Genesis 2:17) man was sentenced to die. Everlasting life was set before this man and his offspring, conditioned only on obedience. It would be a disgrace upon God's entire family in heaven and on earth for Adam to be so disrespectful as to disobey God.

God had given Adam everything for his enjoyment. Adam himself did not make the earth to produce the fine things to eat. He did not create his beautiful companion Eve. He did not make his own body, with the faculties that enabled him to enjoy the things he had. But, while Adam loved and enjoyed the fine life he had been kindly given, he did not follow through in an obedient way.

Eventually Adam put his supposed interests above those of his heavenly Father. He thought more of his immediate desires than of the family of God and the offspring that he was to have. Even imperfect humans despise a man who is a traitor to his family and who sells his own children into slavery and death. And that is just what Adam did.Romans 7:14.

As the human family increased and civilization supposedly progressed, humans have devised ever more hideous

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