Truthfully...Do you believe in luck?

Originally Posted by My Own Eyes

I have a hard time accepting that "all good comes from God, and the bad is just His way of teaching us a lesson."

How many of us would bring immense suffering to the point of serious abuse upon our children, in order to teach them a lesson? It seems a big excessive to me.

Which is not to imply that I have any better explanation. If God tortures us for "our own good", then he is not good. If God completely protects us from suffernig (especially that caused by the hands of others), then there is truly no such thing as free will, and none of it matters.

Back when I believed, I had faith that God would protect me. Not from all suffering, or from everything bad. But I truly believed that he was in control, and that he would save me from the truly bad things, the things I feared the most.

When I lost that belief, I started suffering from anxiety attacks, because I suddenly realized that there is nothing standing between me and my biggest fears except the whims of a seemingly capricious God.

God allowing us to experience something, and God 'torturing' us, are very different things.