can we bridge this gap?

Question

a child is born in the 3rd world, suffers in a slum, suffers abuse and torture, hunger and dies young. Another child is born in to wealth and spends the rest of his life rolling in wealth.

I ask religious people a question
where is god?

Answer 1

God is everywhere.

Answer 2

We chose this life, son. We made of it what we would. God just gave us the option, and the actual world he gave us was a pretty good one.

This isn't an argument proving God doesn't exist. It's a condemnation of the choices, we as a species, have made, with a slight socialist tilt (they are rich, for whatever reason, so they owe the poor. Why?)

Some of us, a few, have discovered a way back to Eden, and aren't even religious. Keep searching, don't give up. You might be surprised at what you discover.

Answer 3

God is where He's always been. He sees it all. People who suffer sometimes are stronger, wiser, courageous, better off than children born into wealth. Ever think about that? Easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the rich to enter into the kingdom of God.

Ever hear what doesn't kill you makes you stronger? What kills some often times leads then right into the kingdom of God.

Answer 4

Hinduism is the only religion, which preaches the karma theory. For every action there will be a reaction. We are responsible for each and every action we take. This explains why we suffer and at different levels. Why are some born with severe diseases and others healthy? When we suffer, we are facing the bad reactions to our bad actions taken in our past. When are happy, we are facing the good reactions to the good actions taken in our past. God is very fair, he does not make one suffer or enjoy happiness for no reason. We get exactly what we deserve.

Answer 5

We are born with free will, we are on our own, you can ask for Gods help. But, most of us don't want to hear the answer, you know that child is there, then do something! To me the hardest lesson to learn is DO UNTO OTHERS, AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU ! In other words it's up to you. God's answer to your question is US. Wealth just proves we have'nt figured it out even after all this time.
If you think you can't do it, at least give to those who can !!!

Remember, God did'nt cause the problems, we did, FREE WILL !! God gave us the answer.

Answer 6

everywhere.allowing these things to happen to different cultures to test if still people will still acknowledge HIM!remember the ancestors of the present people had done great mistakes that may cause the different curses in some human lives yesterday,today and tomorrow!i had an experience to live in a certain province here in the philippines,inoticed that the people there make them selves the god and dont rspect the rights of other people.they keep on doing it even the person they hurt do good and have the rights to do what he wanted to do.one day GOD told me to leave the place cause the judgement for the people in that place is at hand!

Answer 7

The same place He has always been.

the question is this.

Where are YOU when you need help? Seeking God?

Seems to be a way of life for most people. They only seek God, when they need Him. Other than that, they put Him in a closet on a shelf, and needed further.

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Answer 8

Try reading up on the Book of Nonsense, 3:16.

To paraphrase the philosopher Homer Simpson, sometimes there is no moral - it's just a bunch of stuff that happened.

Answer 9

God is in us.

He gave us dominion over this planet ... and we have it, now we must create justice and equality for all ...
Many starve and we could stop it ...
Many are murdered for some stupid cause ...
Many are illiterate and we could educate them ...
( Not indoctrinate them )
Many are greedy .

What can I say ... when we realize that we are all parts of the Same being, that we all seek happiness; then, maybe the world will find peace.

In the meantime we are the one's who don't know where god Is!

Answer 10

Do you really think that God is to be blamed for this???

God created man in "His own Likness", and after the disobedience of man. God gave man something called Free Will.
He gave us the power to choose from what is right and wrong, what is just from unjust, what is good from evil.

It is we who have created this gap between fellow human beings, distinguished between rich and poor, not God. In His eyes we are all one - all His children, loved by Him with unconditional Love. Becos of his unfailing pure love only he gave us His only begotten son to die for us. He never wants us to suffer, or see His own children losing their lives in this manner.

Therefore it is us who should bridge this gap. If we give an helping hand to our neighbour who is need, if the leaders of our country take the picture at large that concerns the masses rather than the small petite world of wealth, power, politics and back biting that they live in, we could help these children out of this state.

It' s upto each and everyone of us to act responsibly, with humane qualities to think and care for the next of kin.
Cos in the end we all are one big family. Cos I strongly believe that it is us who put ourselves in this state, and it is upto us to come out of this mess we have created.

Answer 11

God gives us freedom. What we choose to do with it He leaves up to us, and sometimes we hurt each other (and even ourselves) by the choices we make. That really isn't so hard to understand, I don't think. You might think that God ought to have taken away a little of our freedom in order to make us all happier, but that would have been the only way He could possibly do it. He seems to think freedom is worth the pain it costs. . . and I'm not really inclined to argue with Him about that.