Does this make god immoral?

Question

Free will. Wouldn't it make more sense if god didn't let war happen, even if it takes away from our free will? If you're 10 year son somehow got his hands on a loaded gun, would you let him play with it, or would you take it away? If you take it away, you also take away his free will, because he CHOSE to play with that gun. It's worth it though, taking it from him may have saved his or someone else's life. If god really is our parent, our "father", then why doesn't he do this?

He should, allowing evil in order to allow free will is immoral and wrong.

Way to avoid the question guys, LOL!

hellion210 - I've already considered that too, thanks though.

Answer 1

Would you call the acts of child rapists and murderers as acts of free will granted by God? How sick it is for a sacret person like God to let such acts happen under his control and before his eyes? Anyone thought about this? Any spritual explanations for these acts?

Answer 2

What if you trusted your son so much that simply by giving him the truth and explaining what a gun is, what it can do and making him aware of the risk he takes by playing with it, you give him the chance to put the gun away. Would that make you a bad parent or simply one who is sure that goodness in your child is stronger than the darkness? My point is we know what war does, life and the Creator have shown us its destruction many times over yet we choose to continue to fight wars perhaps when they talk of God being foolish this is what they mean. Maybe the creator just wants to believe will do the right thing. So, I'd say no God's not immoral, we are and its beautiful that God still believes in us and sad unfortunately.

Answer 3

God is allowing evil for a short time in order to prove Satan the Devil wrong when he said that people would curse Him and forget about him. Very shortly, God will be using Jesus (Michael the Archangel) to rid the world of all wickedness and evil. Back in the days of Job, Satan told God that Job would curse Him and not serve Him because of sickness, because of his family dying, but Job would not do it. It is only a short time to permit evil since a day to God is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day. So, soon Satan's time of ruling the earth will be done with and then will come a time with no sickness, no death, people living forever in complete happiness. There is a lot more to it than this, but in short, God is permitting wickedness for a short time to prove the point that Satan is not fit to rule over anything and then he and his demons and his followers will be destroyed leaving only the righteous people to live on the earth in perfection. Actually, in Bible chronology, this time period is only 6 days.

Answer 4

this particular episode of taking away the loaded gun from the child would mean you have acted on behalf of the Almighty
if your version is taken into account then tomorrow you will say that a boy if he intends to ignite a 9/11 similar episode and say whether this is immoral or moral what would that mean?
you are bin laden isn't it

Answer 5

well, theres gonna be some arguing here from different ppl, lol, but i think that good and evil cant really exist without each other.

if there wasnt evil, then how would we know that good is, well.... good?

heres another one for you:

god is supposed to know everything, which i assume includes the future. god also created everthing, right? well, that includes the angels. one angel, Lucifer, became evil and was cast out of heaven, and he became the devil. the devil later convinced adam and eve to sin. so sin is the devil's fault, right?

well, if god knows everything, then he knew that lucifer would become the devil, so is it really the devil's fault that he's evil? or was it his destiny? was it part of god's plan, and if so, that means if he wouldnt have become evil, he'd have messed up the plan?

so, it seems to me that he got the wrong end of the stick.

Answer 6

You cannot possibly claim to know more than God. God is perfect. He wants us to CHOOSE to love Him. Without free will, and the test of the earthly life, we wouldn't be loving Him, just following orders. Free will is a gift, a great gift. And if we have to endure a short stay in this "vale of tears" in order to obtain eternal bliss then so be it! He's not asking much of us.

Answer 7

How can God be immoral when He created morality? God is not moral or immoral, He's above morality altogether. He doesn't have to abide by the Golden Rule because He created it. He's above it, and knows ALL, and knows better than you or me or anyone.

If God controlled us like marionettes, we'd just be puppets, incapable of seeking and loving Him. Who would want that? You? For example, would you want a spouse on a string, or would you want a spouse to love you, and show it, freely?

Answer 8

God gave humans the freedom to choose to obey Him and obey His laws. How meaningful would it be to obey God only because we HAD to? But to obey Him because we choose to...that is true and real love.

The whole concept of God is that there is some Supreme Being who created everything we see and gave us freedom to choose to worship Him. How presumptuous of us to try and question a being like this! If you can believe that God does exist, and He exists as described in the Bible, we cannot, by our nature, fathom Him, nor can we understand all the reasons for His actions.

I wouldn't want a God I could understand completely. I wouldn't want a God who thought and behaved as humans do. What kind of God would that be?

Answer 9

God doesn't give free will because he wants us to choose evil. He gave us free will so that we would be able to choose to love. Without it, we would never be able to love him (or others) as loved can't be forced. Yes, the gift of freedom can and is misused, but this doesn't mean God is evil, rather it means he loves and desires to be loved, and so he created a creature capable of loving him back.

Answer 10

sensible attempt at common sense one 0 one. Your merchandise # a million ignores the moves of Mohammed himself with regards to an complete community of Jews that he destroyed, which includes women and children. Your premise # a million ignores the context of Scripture with reference to the destruction of those human beings regardless of the problem of a declared conflict or not. Their sins had culminated to the point that God's justice upon them grow to be performed by the Israelites, who in turn were instructed that could want to they abandon God and grow to be like those heathen countries round them, they too may wade through a similar destiny, which they did. You attempt to distance your self in this regard with assistance from claiming this grow to be the "Christian" God. No, this grow to be "THE" One and easily God, dealing with carnally minded Israelites. that's ironic, yet setting up, that your faith is patterned after theirs; a faith designed for carnal, faithless, and godless human beings. .