Copyright 1997 Patrick Robert Briney Scripture quotations and answers are from the King James Version of the Bible. Human suffering, sorrow, grief, pain, misery, and death are the result of sin. Sin causes people to reject the wisdom and advice of God to be wise, unselfish, loving, and helpful. As a result, people hurt, cheat, and kill each other. People allow selfishness to guide their decisions, and others are predictably hurt.
People lie and gossip to gain undeserved advantage over others.
Greedy, unscrupulous leaders exempt themselves from unfair laws designed to control and rob from those they rule over. Starvation and poverty in our world of abundant food and materialism are the result of laziness, greed, hatred, and lack of charity. Every pain and sorrow we inflict on each other is because of sin. We cause suffering and experience suffering because of sin. Further, natural disasters such as droughts, hurricanes, and diseases are the result of sin.