God can make good things arise from bad events. A man may die, and his family member may go,"I want to see him again. I will
follow Jesus so he can make this happen." In this way, the bad event of someone dying brings someone to eternal life. What is one
man's finite suffering compared to anothers eternal life apart from suffering. God himself suffered and died for all of us. If God's
existence is one not devoid of suffering, why should ours be? Are we some how superior to the God who created us? No we are not.
We are in no way superior to God. Yet God does love us.

Because finite times finite is less than infinite, we can even say that any amount of finite suffering across any number of people is
even less than one person's infinite lack of suffering in Heaven. I know a lot of stubborn people today like to rebel against God and
go,"Because XYZ happened, I dislike you." That's actually quite a bad character flaw to have. And it goes against the example I
posted. Still, you can see situations where something bad could lead to another person being saved. Good can come from bad,
but it isn't up for man to do evil such that good comes from it. Scripture condemns the action of doing evil such that good will
arise.

I could bring many, many(infinite maybe?) more examples of good thing possibly arising from bad things, but I'm low on time. Thank you for reading.

-Jim Sager
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