Comments on: Why Does God Allow Illness and Suffering?

By: Wendy Scott

Wendy Scott — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:17:03 +0000

Well, Etta, Bahá’ís believe our teachings are true, or we wouldn’t have accepted them. We encourage everyone to study them for themselves and make their own decisions about whether or not to accept them. We believe the Bahá’í Faith is God’s latest outpouring of divine blessing to the people of this planet. It wouldn’t hurt you to look into it on your own. Bahai dot org or Bahai dot us are both excellent websites to learn the history and teachings. As Jesus said, “You will know them by their fruits.” Taste the fruits of the Bahá’í tree and see how they taste. A good tree cannot bring forth bad fruit. Jesus said so. 🙂

By: Philip Dunne

Philip Dunne — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:41:08 +0000

Probably everyone has pondered man’s great suffering, and thus have questioned the existence of God. Even Mother Theresa, in her journals, has questioned the existence of God for that very reason. Why would an All-Loving God allow such suffering? And her response? She continued to minister to the most lowly of Calcutta at her own great sacrifice. And if she wondered about the existence of God, that brings into question the existence of Heaven and Hell in an afterlife. So her behavior was probably not motivated by hope of Heaven or fear of Hell, but probably because of her spiritually developed virtues of traits like compassion, generosity, forbearance, and such. Which, it is my understanding, is why we have been created.
Philip Dunne

By: Etta Rainer

Etta Rainer — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 16:27:07 +0000

This was really a teaching moment for me. But I have learned growing up raised by my Grandma my mom’s mother, Always Trust God never ask Why! What is Bahai and what do it teach. Is it not False teachings?

By: Linda Sinclair

Linda Sinclair — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 15:39:40 +0000

As someone who suffers daily from chronic pain and all the fear and humiliation that comes along with it, none of these answers are satisfactory to me. I would have thought that God could have come up with a better way to refine my character than allowing me to suffer on a daily basis. I also believe there’s some victim blaming going on in the aforementioned article. Yes, we need to care of ourselves but some of us are born with disease. Most of this time this question is answered by people with good health so I can’t see how they could possibly understand the torture of living with chronic disease. This is the one thing that keeps me from loving God fully because I often wonder if I love Him more that He loves me.

By: Simon Ward

Simon Ward — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 06:42:56 +0000

In reply to Riley Wilson. Hi Riley, you make very valid points and are right to raise them as it will help us all on the journey in the search for truth. I do not pretend to know the answers as these are, perhaps, some of the biggest questions that man-kind has always wrestled with. For me it is a question of going back to some of the above quotes and others, and accepting as a matter of faith that I cannot hope to understand everything, just like the child in the mother's womb may question aspets of its existence. In time, maybe not until the next world, things will be clearer and the justice of all these things will, I hope, be evident. That may or may not help but thank you for commenting.

By: Riley Wilson

Riley Wilson — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:11:40 +0000

I really do not wish to be the anti-believer here, but this article just riled me up with even more questions about it. Firstly, how in the world can a god allow suffering to let us perfect ourselves? For instance, an innocent child from Syria has to endure the horrors of war in order to perfect himself? I dont understand the logic to that, and secondly we must endure these griefs and sufferings in order to “blossom”? Does this means the majority of the poor, sick, disabled, innocent. etc etc etc, people need to endure a hell of a life in order to achieve a heaven thereafter? Because in reality most of them endure suffering their whole life, ending with death. So how can the logic of this god work by the opposite of basic moral values?

By: Simon Ward

Simon Ward — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:55:32 +0000

In reply to Gopal Menon. thanks for your comments

By: Simon Ward

Simon Ward — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 10:41:15 +0000

In reply to Haleh Ighani-Rabani. Haleh thanks for your comments

By: Simon Ward

Simon Ward — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 10:39:52 +0000

Hi Paul, i guess it depends which environment / role you are in as to whether you would mention prayer or faith matters but as you say empathy etc goes a long way (e.g. Carl Rogers three “core conditions” of empathy, respect and congruence are used by practitioners in many fields)

By: Simon Ward

Simon Ward — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 10:32:54 +0000

In reply to Steve Eaton. Thank you for your comments