Why did God allow such pain and suffering?

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It is not God who allows it, it is the humans. No one needs to drink to the point of dying from it. That is their choice, NOT that of God.

If a person stabs himself with a knife in the hand, he will need medical attention, and will suffer for it, maybe even causing some loss to the use of his hand. But that was HIS choice, not God's. So why should God then be blamed for what people choose to do?

God gave us Free Will, to make choices in life, even to allow us choose to drink, but we should do so moderately, and so if we over indulge, if is our fault.

God allows us to become doctors to heal the sick and wounded, and to become farmers and ranchers to feed the hungry. If God was to remove our Will, we would then need God to heal us, and to feed us. And we would NOT be human.

Just something else.

We as selfish humans, want both, we want God to stay out of our lives while we sin, but to be in our lives while we are sick or in danger.

Just like people who hate policemen, and do not want then around, but hey, someone threatens these people and they are the first to holler for the police. they want both. "leave us alone but be here when we need you"

We must accept that that is how it is. Life goes on, Death goes on. Without either, there would be neither.