God is not to blame for suffering of any sort.

Oh course a lot of the point of this debate revolves around the concept of Justice is. To me Justice is that which is fair to all, guilty and innocent, and something which needs not only to be done, but be seen to have been done. That being the case there are inevitably going to have to be compromises. There is also a difference between the concepts of responsibility and blame. A child who commits a crime is the only one who can be to blame for it. However responsibility lies with the parents for not having taught the child it was wrong to do so, and trained the child's conscience sufficiently to cause the child to refuse to carry it out. God has never shirked responsibility for what developed, for the simple reason that the main cause of it was the gift of free will given to his creation, both spirit and human. Was that wise? Well would you want, for example, a pet who could only do what you told it. Nothing more, nothing less? Such a pet would be nothing more than a robot as it would have absolutely no control over what it did or why. The other question associated with that is, would you want to be a robot, or would you like to have, as we do, a reasonable ability to make our own decisions. Given free will there was always the risk that at least one would misuse that free will, as Satan did,and then Adam after him. Given that whist God is responsible for the suffering that ensued, he is not in fact to blame for it. The otehr question is, why was it allowed to develop and continue? With the associated questions, was it wise to do so? and was it just? Satan raised a challenge to God over whether mankind would ever serve God willingly, especially, under persecution. The first time this challenge was detailed was in teh case of Job: Job 2:1-5 1 Afterward it came to be the day when the sons of the [true] God entered to take their station before Jehovah, and Satan also proceeded to enter right among them to take his station before Jehovah. 2 Then Jehovah said to Satan: "Just where do you come from?" At that Satan answered Jehovah and said: "From roving about in the earth and from walking about in it." 3 And Jehovah went on to say to Satan: "Have you set your heart upon my servant Job, that there is no one like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing God and turning aside from bad? Even yet he is holding fast his integrity, although you incite me against him to swallow him up without cause." 4 But Satan answered Jehovah and said: "Skin in behalf of skin, and everything that a man has he will give in behalf of his soul. 5 For a change, thrust out your hand, please, and touch as far as his bone and his flesh [and see] whether he will not curse you to your very face." Here Satan clearly stated that mankind would always capitulate under sufficient pressure. Faced with a challenge like that God was really left with only two alternatives. 1: Wipe out Satan and all who followed him and start again with the faithful angles and a new human creation. 2: Allow Satan the opportunity to prove his case, as he attempted to with Job. Which of the above is true Justice? Which of the two is most likely to prevent it ever recurring? Should God simply be a powerful bully? (option 1), or should he actually prove beyond any doubt that no such challenge could ever be 100% successful (option 2)? God chose option 2, but only for a set time period, and with the over-riding provision tat Satan could not directly cause the death of any human. That still left Satan with the ability to influence human thought, and he has clearly done so for the millennia since. Satan has influenced men to cause suffering to others in an attempt, all too successful in many cases to make them do precisely what you are doing with your accusations. That limited time is almost up. Satan has had a fair opportunity to prove his point, and failed. In the meantime God has arranged for a resurrection of all who have suffered and died in the past to give them the chance of a much improved life, and the renewed option of eternal life on earth which Adam threw away, and also the privileged of helping to restore the earth. There will, at the end of his son's reign, be one last, and very brief opportunity for Satan to prove his case, this time against a large number of perfect humans who have had a great deal of experience living in complete peace, complete health God's way. Any who fail this final test will be destroyed with no opportunity of resurrection, and that will include Satan and all the spirit beings who followed in his wicked course.. Is that Just? Those who survive that final test will be rewarded by the opportunity of perfect health, perfect peace, for eternity, as well as a personal relationship with their creator. In time any suffering will be long forgotten, and the 3 score years and 10 that some may have achieved in their original human life will seem so insignificant as to be not worth considering against the blessings that faithfulness will have brought them. That, to my mind is perfect justice, and the fairest possible course for all concerned. There will be absolutely no room left for any to say "Ah, but what if?" because all has been tried and failed over the last 6,000 years. That past suffering, and it will be past by then, will soon be forgotten, and can never be repeated. Should any, whether spirit or human, ever raise a challenge to God again the precedent will have been set, and God can, with complete justification, wipe such ones from existence. Not only that, but we today have the advantage of being able to look back over the development of the challenge and God's answer to it, thanks to the detailed record in scripture, so today, in this time of the end, we are able to judge for ourselves, and react accordingly to God. However those who blame God will be doing precisely what Satan's challenge told God he would get Job to do, so we will actually be supporting Satan's side of the challenge. That is the basis of my case, that not only was the option God chose the fairest to all in the long term, because it is a once for all time solution, but he has been frank enough in it's record of the progress of the challenge and his answer to it to detail both his successes and Satan's and allow us to choose our side. However it is important to remember there are no neutrals in this issue. As Jesus said "He who is not on my side is against me, he who does not gather with me scatters" Matthew 12:30. With that in mind it behoves us all to make sure we know the challenge, and the history of it's development well enough to make a fully informed decision.