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How come a God who is good and loving allow evil and suffering in His world?
The bible teaches that God did not create evil. The world He made was utterly good.
Gen. 1:31
But people themselves turned against God, using His gift of free will to rebel against Him. With that moral rebellion, the perfection of God's world came tumbling down and people began to suffer. The Bible also claims that behind human wickedness lies a great outside influence - Satan. This fallen angel hates God and everything to do with Him. He is out to destroy both humanity and the environment and does everything he can to attack God and His purposes. He promotes much of the evil and suffering that we see.

Even though God did not create evil, nor does He will it, He nevertheless uses it to accomplish His purposes. For instance, God sometimes uses pain to draw people to Himself, especially when they otherwise would not respond to Him. Likewise, the struggle against evil has led many people to strive for good, producing such admirable traits as courage, endurance, self-sacrifice, and compassion.

Why then, if God is all powerful, does He not remove evil from the world?
This question assumes that He has done nothing. But in fact, He has. First, God Himself came into this world, with all its sorrow and pain, and lived as a man. Jesus knew poverty, thirst, hunger, injustice, physical abuse, heartbreak, and betrayal. He ended his life in excruciating pain. So God certainly understands our condition. He has personally experienced it. In the process, God dealt with the problem of evil at its root. On the cross, Jesus took on Himself the wickedness of every person who has ever lived in order to do away with it. Christ broke the grip of evil that holds the world captive. Already we can see among God's people a glimpse of the new life that He has brought about.
(Rom. 8: 4, 11)

This brings us to God's final solution to evil, which John describes in Revelation 20. In the end, God will triumph by doing away with evil and those who promote it. He will restore His creation and his creatures to their original purpose, to the original relationship they enjoy with Him. Suffering will be but a memory. Goodness, justice, and peace will characterize the moral climate of God's new heaven and earth.

What is the usefulness of the Bible ?
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God (i.e it is God-breathed) and is profitable.
2 Timothy 3:16

The first piece of information regarding the usefulness of the Bible is that the Bible is indeed profitable. Reading a bit more we will also see what is its profitability.

What is salvation?
Salvation means being saved from the power of sin and from hell, the eternal penalty of that sin. Through the process of salvation, we are freed from everything that could prevent us from enjoying eternal life with God.

Mark 10: 24-27 introduces the idea that salvation is a gift from God, not something we earn by our own efforts. In the same chapter, we are introduced to the idea that, through a mystery we can't fully understand, salvation comes through the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus.

Can non-christians be saved?
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.
John 3: 16-18

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What is the rapture of the church
The rapture of the church is the event in which God “snatches away” all believers from the earth in order to make way for His righteous judgment to be poured out on the earth during the tribulation period.
1 Thessalonians 4: 13–18 and 1 Corinthians 15: 50–54.

God will resurrect all believers who have died, give them glorified bodies, and take them from the earth, along with all living believers, who will also be given glorified bodies at that time. “For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever”.
(1 Thessalonians 4: 16–17).

The rapture of the church is a glorious event we should all be longing for. We will finally be free from sin. We will be in God’s presence forever. There is far too much debate over the meaning and scope of the rapture. This is not God’s intent. Rather, the rapture should be a comforting doctrine full of hope; God wants us to “encourage each other with these words”.
(1 Thessalonians 4:18).

Who was hell created for?
The original purpose of hell and its fire was for the ultimate destruction of Satan, sin, and his angels.

"Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.”
Matthew 25:41

Who will go to hell?
No one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again”.
John 3:3.

It is also clear that hell is an eternal punishment for those who do not obey Jesus
Matthew 25:46.

In the end God “will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.”
2 Thessalonians 1: 8–9

Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Rev. 20:15

Who is Jesus?
Jesus is our Savior, our healer, and our friend. He was God's answer to humanity's desperate need for salvation. God, because of His great love for us, wrapped Himself in humanity and came to earth as a simple man—"Jesus."
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only son. That whoever believes in Him, will not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16
Jesus became the bridge between mankind and God so that we can have a relationship with the Father.