●○○ INITIAL CALL

Question: How do we know that our suffering is not punishment from God?
Scripture: Jas 1:13
Link: Why do we suffer?
Good morning My name is Francesco and he is Claudio, what’s his name?
Dario.
I’m glad to meet you. Today we are talking about a question that many are asked about God.
About God? I know that I no longer believe in God.
What could I say now? Apparently he once believed in God. I remember that the watchtower said that in the face of many tragedies they find it hard to believe in God. Well rather than making assumptions about why he no longer believes in God, I could try to make him express . He is not the only one wondering if God exists or not. But can I ask you a question? It has long been asked whether God exists?
Watch once I believed in God, I was raised like this. But then everything went wrong. My mother got sick, and my father left us. We were my brother and I, and we took care of our mother until she died.
I’m really sorry Dario.
Yes me too. In some ways I can understand it. My family has gone through a situation similar to hers.
I do not understand precisely because God has done all this to us. We are good people, we went to church every Sunday. We never hurt anyone.
I can assure you, that he is not the only one to feel these feelings. Many people try to understand, because bad things happen. The answer of the Bible will surprise you, in fact today we are here for this. We wanted to answer the question with the Bible, why can we say that our sufferings are not a punishment from God?
Yes, really?
Sure! Look at what we read here in James chapter 1 verse 13: “No one, when he faces a trial, says: ‘I am tested by God’, because with the evils God can not be tested nor let anyone test.” Notice the first part of the verse. When we face difficulties in life, we may think that God is testing us. But, are things really like that? Look at the second part of the verse. Do you agree that if God exists, can he not be tested with evil?
Well yes, it would be impossible!
I agree! And then look at the concluding part of the verse. What do you say about encouraging?
That God does not test us with evil?
That’s right. Sure! At this point one wonders, if it is not God who makes us suffer, then why do we suffer? The next time we see together, the main reason we suffer.
All right.