God is not to blame for suffering of any sort.

Again my apologies for my tardiness. No need to apologise, and no it wasn"t relevant to the debate but it just cleared up a misunderstanding. It also was a long way from my life story, I can assure you. 1) Everyone can choose where they live it all depends on what you use as your criteria for making the decision. I have lived in many parts of the UK, and moved around for a number of reasons, but I would not move to a high risk area for any reason on earth. If others choose to do so then they have to accept the consequences of their choices. San Francisco will always be a high risk area and yet when it was practically demolished by an earthquake, did people move away? No, San Franciso is still in the same high risk spot. In fact God wanted us to spread out, but his idea was never for us to gather together in great big cities, that is man"s idea, not God"s, and it ahs so many drawbacks and few real benefits. Cities are even contributing to climate change because all the concrete acts like storage heaters. Check temperature readings for cities compared to surrounding countryside, Cities are always more extreme. You cannot create micro-climates and expect them not to affect the climate as a whole. It simply doesn"t work that way. Don"t forget God disrupted work on the first real city, and caused the people to scatter. No, what it does mean is that if they choose to move into a high risk area then they cannot expect to be safe, and can only have to bear the consequences of their decision whatever they may be. 2) God did not create Satan to sin either, that was his own doing. Yes I know you would, such is human wisdom, and what would that prove? Nothing, How would that stop others following in his footsteps? Do sanctions against criminals stop others becoming criminal? No they don"t because there is always someone who thinks he can do it better. No, the only way to stop it ever happening again is to amass enough evidence to prove that it doesn't, and cannot work, and that is what God is having to do. Should anyone be stupid enough to try it again God can then point to the evidence and say "been done, didn't work, goodbye". 3) Once again, God did not introduce Satan into our system, Satan started off as a faithful , but un-named, angel who got greedy, simple as. No-one is to blame but Satan, for everything which he has forced upon us. He wiped out the Egyptian firstborn to get them to set his people free. He wiped out all but Noah from the pre flood world because of how bad things had got with disobedient angels materialising human bodies and fathering cruel and violent children. Easy, the Egyptians could have chosen just to let Israel go and then not have had to suffer any of the plagues. The people of Noah"s day could have listened to Noah"s preaching and got on the Ark. Allowing people an informed choice, as he is doing today through people like me, is not interfering with freewill, it is giving them options to exercise that freewill on. Gravity doesn"t limit free will, you can still choose to step off a cliff if you want, I simply presents you with reliable alternatives. So you can make an informed choice. 4) It is not a rule, it is an inevitable result of Adam becoming imperfect through his sin, he ash passed that imperfection on to his offspring. What good would making his offspring perfect? They were a lot nearer to perfection than we are anyway, it has been a gradual slide, and Adam was prefect when Satan corrupted Eve, who was also perfect. However we still have a choice as to whether or not to learn what sin is and do all we can to avoid it. No, sorry God"s way is the only way it will work, because God is the only one with enough foresight to see all possible outcomes. The only way God stopped them was to wipe them out, in his own time, and even then people cry "genocide". As he did back then so he will again wipe all evil men from the face of the earth, again in his own time. However he is currently giving all men, no matter what they have done, the chance to see the error of their ways and save themselves by turning their back on their wicked works. 5) Again, the faulty human wisdom. But if you did option 3 you would have to do it again and again. As humans have proven beyond doubt, "quick fixes" don"t last. This way it will last forever once finished. Done to option 3 would be better short term but disastrous long term., and would be unlikely to make for much less suffering by humans along the way. 7) Since the bible tells us very clearly that the dead are not conscious of anything, they cannot be suffering, that is a pagan teaching dragged with the Apostasy in to instil fear in the congregations and frighten them into not asking too many questions. Gen. 3:19: "In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." Eccl. 9:10: "All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["the grave," KJ, Kx; "the world of the dead," TEV], the place to which you are going." Eccl. 9:5: "The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all." Ps. 146:4: "His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts ["thoughts," KJ, 145:4 in Dy; "all his thinking," NE; "plans," RS, NAB] do perish." John 11:11-14: ""Lazarus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sleep." . . . Jesus said to them outspokenly: "Lazarus has died."" (see Also Psalm 13:3) The bible only mentions eternal suffering, or torment, once and from the context that "eternal" means for as long as the sufferers are conscious to feel it, which is not long. After all, if they are to be cast into the "Lake of Fire" which as scripture assures us means the second and permanent death, how can they suffer past that point? It also shows a lack of knowledge of God"s personality, and is why Christ told us to get to know them both in order to achieve everlasting life. Once we know their personalities we know only too well what they will or will not do. Getting to know God as I do would certainly alleviate all of your concerns, as it has mine. 8) If the insult only affected him then yes I would agree with you, but that insult is bringing much suffering to people earth wide and is causing such as you to doubt his word and not have the trust in him that he deserves. After all, he continues to "make his son shine down on the righteous and unrighteous alike" at present and he really doesn"t need to. If he chose to stop supplying the energy to run this system it would very quickly wind down to nothing. He proved what he can do and does doe when he made the sun "appear to stand still for almost a whole day" when Joshua needed more time ti defend the Gibeonites who had promised to join Israel. I don"t know if God did that by slowing the rotation of the earth, or stopping it, or what he did, but it worked and Joshua won the day, meaning the Gibeonites were saved. We need never doubt that whatever God does it is for the benefit of his creation in the long term, and God always plans for the long term even if he has to sacrifice the short term for it. Don"t forget also that 6,000 years plus is very much "short term" for God if not for us.