Christianity With Benefits

I have recently been presented with a simple yet troubling question that has been branded a flaw to Christianity:

"If Jesus could heal a blind person that he happened to meet, then why not heal blindness?"

It's a great mind teaser, isn't it?  Why doesn't God heal blindness?  Why does God allow suffering at all if He is so great?

It all started when Adam and Eve munched on the forbidden fruit.  God laid out the consequences (in Genesis 3:16-19) like the good Celestial Daddy He is.  Suffering and sin came into the world and it all went downhill from there.  God isn't going to take those consequences away because we are still very sinful and imagine what would happen if He did; we would all become more corrupted than we already are because unless we get to Heaven our relationships will not be restored with God.

Now I would like to point out a flaw to atheism:  Where is atheism when things go wrong?

Suffering doesn't devastate the mind, it devastates the heart.  A cancer patient doesn't want a theory for why he has cancer; he just wants to get better.  That blind man didn't want a theory for why he was blind; he just wanted Jesus to make him see again.  Christianity helps people cope with suffering while atheism doesn't.  Jesus offers hope while atheism offers nothing.

Why does suffering matter to atheists?  Not that atheists feel the devastation of suffering any less than Christians, but if there is no God, than materialism comes into play.  Materialism is the belief that everything is just a combination of molecules.  We share the same molecules as a wall or the sediment in a stream.  It must be a one in a million chance that hundreds of thousands of molecules could come together as to create something that lives and breathes, for that matter, even as complex as a human!  This is a very high held belief of atheists.  If this is true then we shouldn't respond to suffering.  A mother shouldn't object to her baby dying no more than a tree should object to a withering seed, because after all, we are all just a bunch of matter!

You must think I am being heartless; this is because evil does exist.  If evil exists there must be a good to go along with it, since after all, evil is just twisted good (as explained in my previous post).  If good and evil exist there must be some sort of standard for us to tell the difference between them, some sort of morality.  I don't know what other than God would be better as that standard.

We had become so distant from our God that He had to send His only son down here to die for us.  To die for you.  To die for me.  Jesus healed that blind man (in Mark 8:22-26) to show who he was, so we could be saved.  Jesus had to do miracles like that to contrast against all the suffering that we caused.  He had to show his power to the world, not as a magician or physician, but as a savior.  I think it would be appropriate to conclude that the point that God didn't take away all the suffering in the world is a lot more beneficial to Christianity than it is to atheism don't you?