Is God the creator of suffering? 

Is he to blame for injustice, violence, war, famine, atrocities that humans do to each other such as rape, torture, and murder? 

Is it also the cause of disease? 

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I believe that suffering and happiness exist long before the creation of the figure of God for humans, as they are emotions that are part of being, first we existed as human beings, and then we gained consciousness. 

Normally, we look for culprits in painful situations that we do not understand why happen, I always asked myself this question since I was a child and I even reproached God for these events, how was it possible that a two-year-old child died of cancer, or a newborn baby was born with heart failure. Then I wondered why disease exists, is God the creator of everything, including disease? 

When we see things that are labeled as inhuman like a father outraging his children, a mother prostituting a daughter, sons committing patricide, do we ask is this the creation of God or the Devil? And if this is a product of the devil, why does God allow it to happen, God is supposed to be the creator of everything including the Devil. 

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Then after reflecting for years on all the chaos that exists in the world and the suffering that humans suffer, I found logical reasoning that involves science and philosophy that appeased my spirit and brings me some tranquility and peace, avoiding judging, reproaching what I consider is God, taking responsibility and part as a living entity and full of energy. I explain below.

We are energy and energy is not destroyed or eliminated, it only transforms and becomes bigger or degrades, if at death that energy undergoes a process of transformation then we are the ones who create our suffering with the purpose of evolving, growing, and advancing. In other words, we live in a physical world where we are governed by physical laws, among them the law of Karma. 

The law of karma is an energetic interpretation of the physical law of cause and effect and ensures that each individual lives the consequences of their actions, whether positive or negative. The word karma means 'action', and this refers to our past negative physical, verbal, and mental actions. 

Our suffering is the consequence of our actions, that is to say, all the bad things we did in past lives accumulate and we decide to pay off that debt as suffering in the present life. 

Since we are energy that cannot be destroyed, we have the free will to decide if we want to return to human physical form and pay off the karmic debts, the universe works based on balance. 

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So he concluded that God is not the cause of my suffering or my happiness. Those situations that bring out painful or joyful emotions in my life are the consequence of my actions in this life, or in past lives and I chose to live them. 

Yes, it may sound horrible and even illogical to think that a person chose to be born without limbs or to be killed by their children. But everything has a logical, physical, and spiritual reason for happening. 

With this I take my leave, apologizing if I caused any confusion or pain in you dear reader. I wish you enlightenment and may you find loving teachers along the way.