Why would a loving God allow a child to suffer and die?

“something I think all of us would be wondering is, and I think maybe you've wondered this as well during your time being kidnapped, is why would an allloving god, you know, accept this being done to one of their kids? Why would they allow you going through this? >> As that dozens of not even dozens, hundreds, thousands of times. An allloving God is like an allloving parent. I'm raising my child. I want them to be raised a certain way and learn certain lessons and have certain morals and values. If that child strays to the point where”116:19

“You know, why did God kill my little two-day-old baby and take my baby for me that terrible way she died?”26:13

“And that's, that's an experience I hope to never repeat because it was, I've experienced a lot of pain in my life, physical pain, and emotional pain. Hearing, experiencing God cry was horrifying in a way that I don't have words to describe. But when we got to the point of the conversation when I was asking, 'Why is there so much evil in this world? If you are a good and loving and kind creator, and you love your children, why is there so much bad?'”29:55

“Something that would carry out his will on earth. I didn't even realize that's why I went through all the suffering. Of course, that was a question I had for him. At some point, I I got to ask, why did he not help me as a child when I used to pray to him and ask for help? I was really shocked when he said, "Well, I was there." And he showed me visions of him watching over me as a child. But then he said, and I and I'm asking, "Why didn't you help me with this pain?" And he said, "I allowed it." And I was”49:05

“One of the most common questions people ask is, why does a loving God allow suffering?”1:11

“There was no way to imagine that same infinitely loving God force would be associated with a world where some souls, for example, a child killed in a war at a very early age would have, that was their shot at it. That was it.”67:55

“him, I remember I just started crying. And he wrapped me in this tangible light, this tangible love that I mean I could feel. And I went back to if God was real. Let's just go back to walking out of the clinic that day at 19 years old. If God is real, I had some questions. One, what kind of God are you? Why are you so punishing? Why are you so vengeful? Where where are you? You know, I had become a mom of four children. How could you say that you love me and yet stand by? Why while horrible atrocities were committed, you know, to”28:19

“I hear a lot, 'Why would God allow suffering?' And I think when you were there, you did get new insight. You were talking about your love, your husband, and you had had a lot of trouble in your relationship, and yet all you felt was love.”22:12

“And I felt even more punished and more abandoned by God than I had ever felt. And when the nurse picked you up to go register you as a stillborn, he looked at me and he said, "There was suddenly this overwhelming presence, the only way I can describe it, that flowed deeply into me and it filled me with a sense of purpose, as if this presence was speaking to me and said, 'You have to make this baby live in this world, and we're and we are putting that capacity in your hands. Take this baby and make it live.'"”27:29

“You said, well, why God? Did I have to go through this? Well, why did that baby have a car accident? Or why was that baby, you know, lifeless body at birth or whatever?”17:45

“God is all-loving, and many people cannot understand how an all-loving God could have a place like hell, or see people suffer like that.”34:55

“And then when I began to understand that I was like, 'Oh man, so many things made sense.' You know, especially because one of the things I had, the problem I had with God, as you know, some dude sitting up there on the throne, was like, 'How could you let terrible things happen to children? How can you allow these things to happen? People suffering, starving?' Then when I understood that free will is paramount on that level, and that individual, no matter how difficult their experience, they knew that they were going to have that experience and they chose that experience because something about that terrible experience enriches the longevity of their soul. So it's worth these moments of some terrible experience because we need to learn something.”43:14

“and his of despair why and I was thinking God why are you still so so sad and then he said to me Erica it's free will and with the gift of life I give you the gift of free will and I didn't understand why can't you save them don't don't you love them too and he said to me I love all of my children and that is why I let them choose to have that connection with me or not. And I remember thinking connection and then God said to me, love. Love is the connection that joins us together. And I finally understood why it was so sad,”13:33

“it, I have more of an understanding now as to why Jesus was able to go to the cross and do what he did. And um and I have more of an understanding of those final moments when he said, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" because to be connected to such love all of your life and then be cut from it. I understand now why that was the most painful thing for him, not you know having his flesh torn apart but being disconnected from the creator. And I just thought to myself, like if everyone could experience this just”26:56

“Well, I think joy and suffering exist hand in hand, and if you don't allow yourself to feel the suffering that you feel, you really numb yourself towards the joy you feel. Uh, when, when we, I first, uh, after I lost that pregnancy, I sort of felt like God had told me everything was going to be okay, and I was just so hurt. I was just thinking, how could God allow this to happen to me in my life, especially after I felt, I sensed that reassurance.”19:05

“Or there are people who was really, you know, in pain, um, these children, they had like lost loved ones or something. Like he understands the pain more than we understand it, Julie. And when I saw that, that healed me. That healed me because all my life, I thought I'm the one who's just in pain, abused. I always had that. But God healed me knowing that he, the pain that he is feeling for all of us. He loved us so much.”85:36