Footnotes for "Why Does God Allow Suffering?"

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1 And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself.” (John 12:32)

2 2 Peter 3:9

3 1 Timothy 2:4

4 In his letter to the churches of Galatia, Paul twice seems to indicate that he had a problem with his sight: "I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me." (4:15) "See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand." (6:11)  

5 2 Corinthians 12:7

6 The Bible says the Jesus "learned obedience from the things which he suffered. (Hebrews 5:8)  If the Son of God needed to suffer in order to learn, do we think we can become like him through another, easier process?

7 Philippians 3:10

8 James 1:2

9 John 21:22

10 Galatians 6:5

11 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. (Ephesians 2:10)

12 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8)

13 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. (2 Corinthians 1:3-4) 


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