s Jewish people all had kept their faith strong, then they might not have suffered such a great loss, but we will never know that for sure. There is another account of God testing His people in the story of Adam and Eve. God put Adam and Eve in a situation to test wether they were worthy of something. But worthy for “what”. Maybe God is trying to let us know that there is something waiting for us when we pass away like Heaven. It would be feasible to say that God would only want those who are true to Him. This notion of Heaven also gives us something else to get us through the terrible times of our own personal suffering. When the serpent deceived Eve and persuaded her to eat from the tree of knowledge, she failed the test that God set in front of her and Adam. Because of this, we all now suffer from humility and Original Sin. This test differs from the first two in the way that Adam and Eve were not suffering before they ate from the tree, the suffering came after the fact. Why would God want us to experience this suffering when we had no suffering in the beginning? This brings me to the second reason God could let us suffer: Suffering in order to know what “good” really is. There really is now way to understand how good we have it in life until something is take from us. I personally have seen this sort of thing happen to me. I played football all through high school, and my teams were never that spectacular. My Junior year was our best year up to that point, we went 7-3. That team graduated the entire offense, expect for myself, needless to say the outlook for my Senior year was grim. During the off-season the team worked very hard because we knew how tough the road was ahead. We started off the season surprising everyone with a 3-0 mark. Everything was going good until our homecoming game, which we knew was going to be a tough game from the beginning. Right before half-time, I threw a pass ...
