Why does God allow suffering?
How can a loving God allow Cancer?

First we have to remember that God created everything, before Adam and Eve sinned. After each and every day that God created, he saw that it was Good, Genesis 1:1-30, but after the sixth day, he saw that everything he created, as a whole, was VERY GOOD.

Genesis 1:31 - And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

So, if everything was created as Very Good, why does God allow suffering and how can a loving God allow Cancer?

We have to remember that in spite of the suffering, there is a higher purpose, as stated in the following verse.

John 9:1-3 - Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.

Ultimately, every instance of suffering, in every form, will reveal God's divine mercy and love, but we are not blameless in this and the reason is simple.

And the simple answer is: We asked him for it!

When we sin, we are doing the opposite of what God wants us to be doing. Without actually uttering the words, we are saying to him, "I want more of this (Fill in the desired Sin), in my life." God is good, so he will give you the desires of your heart. If you want more sin in your life, then you will get it.

From the very beginning, when sin entered this world, God has allowed us to experience evil. Adam and Eve knew, very well, what eating the fruit from the tree of Good & Evil would give them. It gave them the knowledge of both Good AND Evil. So now, when we choose an Evil thing to do, we are choosing to have more of it in our lives.

So if we choose evil and God gives it to us, then how can you blame him for it? It's our own fault that it happens!

So, how can a loving God allow Cancer?

Cancer is one of the greatest killers of all time. No one actually seeks to get it. It is not a desire of our hearts, so why is it here and why do people suffer because of it?

The answer is still the same. We asked for it.

How can I say that?

Please don't get me wrong, I am not saying that people actually utter the words, "God, may I please have Cancer?” It is our actions, which speak louder than words that determine what we are actually saying.

One cause of Cancer, and anything like it, comes from those family members of the past. Cancer exists because of the evil/sinful choices our ancestors made, that have affected the DNA of the generations that followed. Whether it be from the things that they consumed or the things that they did to their own bodies. The change may have been small at the time, but from generation to generation the new defect continually mutated and got worse, until today, where Cancer, or any other degenerative disease, is the result of those poor decisions from long ago. This is evolution in reverse, which is the real direction that evolution follows.

We are not evolving and getting better at each iteration, we are getting worse with each poor decision we make that affects our bodies in some way. For instance, if you are a smoker, do you think that your offspring would benefit from that decision to smoke or would it potentially hurt them? Do you take drugs, drink alcohol or participate in any other type of destructive activities? Every poor choice you make affects you in some way and very possibly at the molecular level of the DNA.

So when you think you aren't hurting anyone but yourself, you are terribly mistaken! You are affecting your grandchildren and their grandchildren and so on. Tiny changes that get passed on, don't generally cause any benefits to the next generation. They have only been found to make matters worse for them. DNA mutations happen all the time as a direct result of our sinful choices or the choices of others that are in direct contact with us.

So when your innocent grandchild gets cancer, it may not be because they sinned, it might be because you did, or someone in your ancestry did, long ago. This is not a punishment to you for sinning, it is just the results of that sin and the affect it had on you, when you did it. It was passed on to the next generation and to the next, eventually resulting in your loved one, or maybe even you, getting sick and possibly passing on, way before their/your time.

In addition to that, the world as we know it is far from Very Good, as it was in the beginning. After Adam & Eve disobeyed God, therefore causing sin to enter the world, the world itself became cursed as well.

Genesis 3:17-19 Then to Adam He said, "Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it': "Cursed is the ground for your sake; In toil you shall eat of it All the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you, And you shall eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."

Now why did God curse the ground?

Because Adam and Eve wanted to know Evil, so he granted them that desire, saying "Cursed is the ground FOR YOUR SAKE". In order to know evil, you have to see it and/or live it. It is only when you understand Pure Evil, that you can appreciate Pure Goodness. So even though God cursed the ground, it will eventually lead to his Glory as more and more people understand his Pure Goodness against the contrast of Pure Evil.