Christians Keep Telling Me God Wants Me To Suffer

<p>One of the many reasons I&rsquo;m not a Christian is that everyone seems to have a different interpretation of what the Bible means.</p> <p>They pick and choose which bits to believe and which to quietly discard, like those who preach that &ldquo;man shall not sleep with man&rdquo; but happily eat shellfish and keep their beards nice and neat.</p> <p>Honestly, the only part of Leviticus that makes any sense is the ban on wearing linen with wool because seriously, what possible weather event would that combination work for?</p> <p>If there&rsquo;s one thing, however, that I wish Christians would get their stories straight on, it&rsquo;s which version of God is real &mdash; the one from the Old Testament or the New? Plague and pestilence or puppies and kittens?</p> <p>Because I&rsquo;m finding it hard to reconcile the concept of a loving God with the idea that he &ldquo;chose&rdquo; me to have a potentially fatal chronic illness.</p> <h1>Such a loving God</h1> <p>I have heard variously that God hand-picked me to develop lupus because &ldquo;he knew I was strong enough to handle it&rdquo; and to &ldquo;help me find strength and faith through suffering.&rdquo; Such a loving God to gift me a chronic disease.</p> <p>Let&rsquo;s deconstruct this, shall we?</p> <p>First off, am I strong or not? I mean, I am either &ldquo;strong enough&rdquo; to deal with this or lacking in the mental fortitude department; it can&rsquo;t be both.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/deconstructing-christianity/christians-keep-telling-me-god-wants-me-to-suffer-5f050f34c5e8"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>
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