If God is all loving why does he allow suffering, death etc.?

I have heard it and wondered it myself. Why would God allow for so much suffering, death illness and vilolence among His children whom He loves? To answer this, we first will examine one example of suffering reflected against His own Son, Jesus.

Some people see Jesus one way and God another. Which, as to perception is the way we "see" it here on earth, A father in relation to his son are seperate. But Jesus Himself said that He and God the father are one and the same.
So in that respect, if you were to look at Jesus and see Him as loving, kind, humble etc. You are in fact really seeing God that way as well.

So next lets focus our attention concerning children and or Gods "lack of love" for His own as He sent Him here to be tormented and killed.
If you were to consider that God and Jesus are one and the same, then you would have to agree that God sent Himself as a sacrifice for us. But someone could then argue, "But there are scriptual references to Jesus being on the right hand of God etc" and you'd be right. But then suppose and I am asking that you only open your heart and or mind to the possibility of, that God, being God could have placed a large part of Himself into the body of Christ. Being that Jesus was NOT born as we are "into sin", He was perfect as God is perfect. He did say so himself. So, in knowing that, He was being loving at the hands of going through His own suffering. 

So then we come to the question of God having others in the Old Testament sacrifice their child to Him. There is only one reference to this that I know of in the Bible and it was concerning Abraham and his son, Isaac. God did in fact compel him to do that. But if you recall he then told Abraham to not follow through with it. God in that circumstance sought to prove to Abraham as well as to all others who would have been a witness to, that Abrahams willingness to do that, his obedience, his service to God was so great that he would do anything God commanded. Abraham's story in this case was a testament as to the faith we can all have. That our faith being human, born into sin, etc just as Abraham was/is not limited. We do have the strength to do Gods will. Not that God really wanted him to actually do it or follow through, as is evident by Him stopping the act of it.
Also from that story we find where Abraham had ears with which to hear God. He heard the command from Him and so, by that we know we have the capability to do the same.
Again, we see where God was showing that we too have the capability to love Him so greatly that we would suffer ourselves for Him.

So then we come to why it is we have the commandment to honour our father and mother but not to honour our children. But you need to read further on to understand this.
God did instruct for us to not exasperate our children. Not to cause them to become angry or hurt, frustrated.
The fact that it is posed for us to, not "spare the rod" is reasonable. Because to not discipline our children we spoil them.
Simply because there are those who take that to extreme then and beat their children is not in anyway reflective of what God intended for man to do with that instruction or guideline. Not that He commanded it either. He simply said, if you spare the rod, you will spoil the child. That is not him commanding us to spank and or beat our children. There is no such commandment written for such a thing. In this regard, God is showing His love and concern for us as parents and too for children as they should grow up with discipline, instruction etc. In that instruction we show love to our children because we care and love them enough to guide them, into being good people.

.And in that, some take how man or even the church has interpreted and twisted Gods word to reflect something it didn't. Thus causing the suffering and or pain on children as a result of. And then there are those who blame God for it. I would think one could reason, it was the church that was in the wrong there. For twisting Gods word into their own version of the truth, rather than what the truth actually is.
And not that is God not loving them.

And then we come to human suffering and why it is God would allow for such things to happen to the very children he loves. Ok lets examine this to some detail.
God created us having free will, in that we have the choice to do good or evil right? So when speaking about the suffering at someone else's hands, it is they who make that choice. God is not as some would have you believe a "puppet master" He is not and does not have strings over our heads controlling our every move. There are circumstances that do happen in this life, by chance. Now having said that, Could God intervene in such cases and stop all of the suffering, all of the pain etc. Yes He could. Then the question becomes, Then why doesn't He?

Ok lets suppose you have a child. And you love your child. You adore your child. Do you then in that love place that child in a bubble forever to protect him/her from anything bad that could possibly happen? If you could do that with your child, even in knowing all the bad things that might happen to Him or her if you didn't, would you? As well, if God were to lets say, change/alter every aspect of our lives and the lives of others that would negate our own free will and too we then would not experience life at all. Not in the reality that we know it to be.

As a result of sin coming to be in this world, the harsh realities of suffering, pain, death, came along with that sin as well. Just as with God in whom everything is perfect and good. So it is too that with sin, there is everything imperfect and evil or bad. It was mans decision which dictated that sin coming to be in this world thus all the bad, all the suffering which was to follow.
Did God know ahead of time it would, yes. Could He have avoided or stopped it, not without negating free will.

So you say, well my goodness, then negate the free will right? But then why create us at all then? God already has created beings which serve him, worship Him all the time not being created in the image or likeness of God with having choices, or a free will.
Thats where we, His creation are special and unique in the universe.

Now, you might still say, "but why do we have to suffer as a result of something that happened way back then"?
Because even to this day since then man has continued to fall. He has continued to sin over and over again. What we see in this world all the pain, all the suffering, all the ugliness, all the hate and violence, arrogance and pride are all the exact things God wants to free us from. That is our reward for serving Him, believing in Him and trusting in Him regardless of all that we see or might experience or feel here on this earth.

Is it sad for all of us when we see or hear of a child suffering, as they are innocent? yes it is. Would you stop that suffering if you could? Yes of course you would. Does God? The answer is,Yes, he does!

Sometimes He stops the suffering by taking them home to be with Him, sometimes he stops it by healing them, sometimes he stops it by having put medicinal plants etc which man then uses to facilitate that healing. Either way, any way you look at it then, He does stop the suffering, ends the pain.
And if the parent of that child believes that one day they will be reunited with that child there is healing there too, in their suffering/grief. Parents of a child they have lost can find and do find healing and comfort in the knowing they will be with their again one day.And why is it that God allows the cancer, aids, or any other to strike anyone? Because those things which inflict us are brought on naturally in this world that is sickness in of itself, because of sin.

God allows for us to see and even be inflicted ourselves in all the pain, ugliness, hurt, violence, hate, and so on, is so that in seeing that reality that sin caused all of it,  we might come to the realization that it is sin to which we blame. And being so full of hate for sin, as a result of that knowledge, just as He is, we might turn away from sin and believe in Him, cling to Him, love Him even more for providing a way out of all that and into perfection with Him.