Potential for Innocents to Suffer Simply Consequence of unified Creation

Much debate and confusion surrounds the observation that the innocent, as well as the guilty, suffer for the results of sin in this world. We even question how such a Good God could allow such things to happen. We see wars, child abuse, kids born with debilitating diseases and ask, why doesn't God stop this if He is so all-powerful?

We're merely seeing the results of sin on a unified fallen creation. We're all in this together, like it or not. When God created mankind, he created us to live in Communion as God himself lives in Communion - Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It's said that God is Love, and there would be no capacity to love if there was just One intelligence, or One consciousness in all of creation. Who would He love? And how would He know that He was loved, if he had no way of experiencing this Love?

The very ability to Love would require at least two distinct minds. So God created us in His image. A Communion. With the potential to Love and be loved. But how can we love if we had no way to impact each other? Even the ability to experience, feel, and enjoy the love of another has to be the result of this ability to be affected by the actions, or feelings of that other. Otherwise, we would be dead or oblivious to anything or anyone other than ourselves and never could experience this love.

So we're created with the ability to affect each other. To interact with each other. We were created with, in, and as a paradise Community with the potential to Love, and enjoy each other. Then we fell.

Sin is just a corruption of everything Holy. It is death. 'The wages of sin is death'. The enemy comes to steal, to kill, and to destroy.

Can we not see that when we fell, this same interaction, the very same ability to affect each other for a Good purpose was, and is, being used against us now? We can still affect each other. Only now, a lot of times we do so negatively. We can easily see this in the fact of say, a robber. He commits the sin by robbing a convenience store, and ends up killing an old lady in the process. Now his sin has affected an innocent. How could God prevent this without removing our very ability to affect each other for Good as well? It's intertwined. He could, in fact, prevent us from hurting each other, but he would need to isolate us from everyone else and strip us of our ability to love and feel loved in the process. How long would we like to live in that type of situation? An eternity of solitude and loneliness? 'Cause the first moment we were reunited, we would be faced with the same ability to reaffect, and/or harm each other.

So we can impact each other's lives, for Good or woe. Not just in immediate actions either. We can negatively impact our descendants through a further weakened genetic code, enslaving them to harmful or controlling passions. We can affect others through influential cultures that further pull them down into a cycle of death and misery and suffering. We affect each other.

Why doesn't God continuously go behind our backs mopping up our messes? Correcting the consequences of our actions? I suppose He could. But He told us in the beginning what sin would cause. We didn't believe Him. If He didn't let us see the results for ourselves, and experience them, what would be the impetus for turning from from our sin? We would probably continue doing this for eternity and He would continually be going behind us cleaning up our results. That would not be a living Communion. We need to see the harm so that we will sincerely repent and turn, so as to enter into eternity with a loving good disposition like we were created in.