Why Does God Allow Suffering?

For those whose faith has been shaken as to why God would permit natural disasters and human suffering, it is actually one of the main topics in the Bible.
It gives clear teaching on why bad things happen, how we are to respond to such events and God’s attitude towards them.
Disasters occur because natural laws created by God for this age have been ‘corrupted’.
The law by which nature operates were created to work properly, but the corporate nature of human sin affected what God created, so they no longer work as they intended.
Whether an individual is good or bad has no bearing on how they are affected by these natural laws.
Ecclesiastes 9:2 states, ‘This is an evil thing that similar events occur to the righteous and wicked alike’.
Romans 8:20 promises that these natural laws will be restored to their perfect state when this present age has run its course.
Scripture repeatedly reassures us that God will redress all wrongs in eternity. Reminding us that not one sparrow is unloved, it addresses those who suffer unjustly by promising, ‘ Not a hair of your head will be lost, I will repay, says the Lord’.
When we see suffering we need to view it from the ‘eternal perspective’, namely that in eternity God will repay down to the tiniest detail.
Many Christians who take the Bible seriously believe the Tsunami (2004) and the shaking of the Earth on it axis was foretold by Jesus in Luke 21:25/26: ‘On the Earth there will be distress with the sea and waves roaring, with men’s hearts failing from fear for even the powers of the heavens will be shaken’.