Probably not in the best state of mind for this, but I was in a curious mood today so Idecided to test the waters. In search of the source of suffering in this world, I naturally went to Google and uncovered this link.

So according to the 'Bible.org'what are the causes of suffering?
A. Sinful people cause some suffering directly (lying, anger, divorce, drugs, crime, etc.).
Wow, just. Wow. If it was only that easy. Seriously, i could rampage a colony of pup seals with the anger this statement ignites in me.

B. Sin causes suffering indirectly (because of sin this earth is corrupted, deteriorating, painful and evil – Genesis 3:14-19; 4:1-15; Romans 8:20-22).
So no matter how good you are, you still have to suffer for the sins of the rest of the sinners on the planet? What a wonderfully ass-covering coincidence.
C. Conclusion: God is not the cause of suffering; He is the author of good (James 1:13-17).
God sounds like he'd make a great presidential nominee.

Have further questions? So did I!

VIII. What are some good reasons for suffering?
Good? Good? You mean, the ones above weren't the good ones?

A. It enables us to cope in a sinful world.(Pain is a deterrent).
Well, sure. As long as your not a victim. Then pain is pretty much...PAINFUL. And shitty.

B. It teaches us to turn to God for solution.
How in the hell would it do that? Because the resoning afforded here is so complete? What are we, retarded?

C. It produces character improvement (holiness, maturity, etc. James 1:24) which in turn produces eternal rewards (crown of life – James 1:12).
Let me tell you, since cancer took my mother, my character has improved drastically! So much so, in fact, that if someone ever actually said something like this to me in public, I would actually pay someone else to think twice while I beat them to a pulp.

D. It gives God the opportunity to show His grace, love and care for our sinful condition.
God can honestly take his oppotrunity to show grace, love, and care for my sinful condition and blow it out his almighty, white-robed ass. It's a little too late to show me grace. I've seen real grace and I've watched it choke on it's own blood. If my pain is God's grace, then he/she can keep it.

1. Through Christ’s life and death for our sake (Romans 5:6-8).
For my sake? For my sake!? Pfft!!

2. Through providing a place where there is no more suffering, sin or death (1 Corinthians 15:51-55; Revelation 21:4).
What, like an existential Disney World where my father doesn't have to be reminded every day when he comes home to an empty house, eats dinner by himself in his empty house, listens to the echo of a nearly vacated home, sleeps in the bedroom where his wife of 30 years died surrounded by her crying children, and wakes up to nothing; that the partner he spent the better part of a generation building a life with has been ripped from his life like an unwanted fetus is sucked out of a womb?

Yeah. Whatever. Pain is painful. It is. It hurts, it makes you angry, it makes you sad, it makes you wonder why and what you could have done to avoid it. But in the end all that matters is what it does to you.

Does it make you weak, or does it make you strong?