When I was a kid, I asked my Mom why Superman didn't just fly to Germany and kill Hitler during WWII. She said that Superman would have gladly done it except that he wasn't real. Then I asked why God didn't do it.
2006-06-14 15:05:32 · 22 answers · asked by iknowtruthismine 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
From the mouths of babes come such honest, simple questions. I remember many defining moments similar to the one you relate from when I asked my mother questions as a child. When I realized Santa Claus couldn't actually make it around the world in one night, I questioned the feasibility of the omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent nature of God myself! Pretty good questions, pretty obvious answers! How those adults expect us to accept such nonsensical notions through faith is ridiculous.
2006-06-14 15:12:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
First of all you have to understand one thing..... God exists but not in the sense of him being a living breathing person.... Imagine him as a spirit or an aura. tangible but no way to fully interact with the environment around him. So you have this god, this ethreal creature, that can effect man's decisions if they put thier faith in him.... Hitler wasn't religious.... He was against the views of his jewish parents and didn't like the fact that those around him didn't see things as he did... Hitler played people like a fiddle... imagine hitler taking in satan's spirit to extend his actions for a higher purpose. Now satan is not evil but acts against the will of the good. The good people went too far and were decieved by hitler. They followed Hitler because they thought him to be the will of god. He was infact just another politician albeit a very bad and mentally unstable one. God can't make things happen. But he can give us guidance on how to live the straight and good life... It is those that try to manipulate the situation around them that god fears for thier own salvation. Not that he can do anything but allow man(humans) to make thier own decisions in hope that they do the correct thing regardless of how other people react.
Hope this helps explain some and know that it is a tragedy that anything like that ever happened. But God does work in mysterious ways.... his will is not that of man. Man's will is what makes him what he is.... not the oversight of a grand advisor.
2006-06-15 06:11:39 · answer #2 · answered by Charles G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why didn't God stop the bombing on Nagasaki and Hiroshima? God gave us free will and Hitler's choice was to kill millions of people. Everything is done for a reason, Hitler's actions probably brought the Jewish community together with everyone else being persecuted and the parts of the world that fought to save them from their persecution.
2006-06-14 22:12:49 · answer #3 · answered by quinniekins 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did not stop Hitler before he killed Millions because it he allows man to make his own decisions. Man is allowed free will and God has always respect a man's free will. If God controled man then this world would be amazingly peaceful. Don't worry Hitler got his in the end. He on a rotatory spit in hell some where.
2006-06-14 22:10:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I found this helpful. It is hard for us humans to understand why God allows suffering to continue and for so long. This is 2 Peter 3:9 and it says God is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance. Now this is not saying that God is slow, us being humans we want things and we want them now, but this is saying that God is patient and he has a time for everything and you have to remember too what is taken away from a person God and only God can give it back even if it is their lives. There are some very encouraging stories of people who lost their lives because they kept their faith and I am convinced that they will be rewarded. I am very curious what did your Mom tell you?
2006-06-14 22:18:13 · answer #5 · answered by iluvmyduckies05 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could ask the same question about every murderer that has ever lived. You could ask why didn't God prevent Adam and Eve from sinning. I don't know why not. But thinking about that makes me uncomfortable, because there have been times when I could have done something to prevent bad things happening. Not murder, but other things. I don't think I am in a position to be able to blame God for not preventing things because I know there are things I should have prevented-- and didn't.
2006-06-14 22:10:15 · answer #6 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My answer is there is no perfect answer any human can give. We know that God hears our prayers and that God suffers with those who suffer, but who can begin to explain why He allowed such a horrible massacre of all those innocent people. His ways are not our ways and His thought are not our thoughts. They are as high above ours as heaven is above the earth. The Bible says this. If our faith in God depends on this answer there will never be a belief in a caring, loving God.
2006-06-14 22:18:45 · answer #7 · answered by His sweetie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easy, because if God solved all our problems for us there'd be nothing left for us to do.
Or maybe he knew that killing Hitler wouldn't stop the Nazi party, only a comprehensive military defeat would do that. And it did =)
2006-06-14 22:17:18 · answer #8 · answered by spfxi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same answer as Superman.
It's all in the marketing and the projected profits.
2006-06-14 22:13:09 · answer #9 · answered by auntiegrav 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has allowed man to destroy man because men accept evil and don't follow him in general.
God has always allowed man to destroy hisself, he will from time to time use his people to destroy others and he has used other natoins to destroy his people for thier actions.
It is first not our place to judge why God does anything, it is not this life but eternality that is Gods concern more than earth. Earth is but a small time frame.
2006-06-14 22:09:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋