but I think whenever God allows us to suffer for bad behavior, we deserve it. What He has done is give us free will, and our suffering the consequence of our bad behavior is one of the most effect tools He has set up to get us to turn to Him, both before and after we're saved.
Let's just flat out ask point blank.
GloryDaz,
Do think a woman EVER deserves to have her body raped for any reason at all?
I don't know how much clearer I can make it. You don't have to like it, and you don't have to agree. So, YES, if God allows her to suffer for her bad behavior she deserves it. The purpose for suffering for our bad behavior is to learn to not do that bad behavior anymore. Simple common sense. God uses it because it works.
I'll repeat....I think
whenever God allows us to suffer for bad behavior, we deserve it.
I'll go one better, I think God also allows us to suffer when we don't deserve it....for other purposes entirely, so that we will grow stronger. How many people have suffered horrible things while totally innocent, who have gone on to help others in amazing ways that they would never have been able to do had they not gone through what they did? God has purposes for our suffering.
Romans 5:3-4
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
As humans, we are prone to see every bad thing as something that should never happen. Humanists, especially, are prone to thinking that, and believers get attacked for seeming to be "hard hearted", or too accepting, when in fact, they are trusting the Lord knows what He is doing...concerning what He allows in our lives. I'm not one to think suffering is random and unseen by God. In the same way I think God hears and answers our prayers.