jesus saved a wedding by changing water-wine.why didn't he save the jews during the holocaust?

Question

now that would've been cool.

this sounds like i'm bashing, but a lot of non-christians might wonder how jesus and god decide who and when and where to perform miracles and show themselves to the world.

Answer 1

Well, because Jesus isn't God himself. Though that certainly is a very hard question, one that many have pondered over. This was awful, why weren't more saved? And it wasn't just Jews that died in the concentration camps, it was also people who were disabled or coloured, or basically not liked that weren't "aryan". The Jews are the "chosen ones" and Jesus himself was a Jew. So the only thing I can say would be there must have been some awfully huge cosmic lesson needed to mankind for God to not intervene sooner. Or maybe he did, but just in smaller ways.

Answer 2

Lots of bad things have always happened to people...and they continue to happen to people. Why does Jesus/God let ANYTHING bad happen to ANYONE?

Faith is not supposed to make sense. That's why it's FAITH.

I *could* say that God set up the Earth in such a way that human beings have Free Will, and if God ever interfered with anything, then that would mean that people don't REALLY have Free Will, and that would be a contradiction. And, indeed, people use their Free Will to do evil all the time, and Jesus/God has allowed/continues to allow it to happen.

And yet there are numerous instances, cited in the Bible, of Jesus/God intervening in various things all the time.

So, does that mean that humans truly have Free Will, or not?

And what does it mean when God/Jesus allows Jews to be killed--whether it's the Holocaust, or the Spanish Inquisition, or whatever? Does it mean that He's mad at the Jews for rejecting Him, and he wants to punish them?
And--even more confusing--why did Jesus/God allow Protestants and Catholics to war with one another, in His name, during the Hundred Years' War?

My personal theory is that, on this plane of existence, everything that humans do is of their own Free Will and that God does not interfere.
And yet there are many, many stories in the Bible about God interfering with various things (i.e., miracles), so how does one explain this?
Well, if you have Faith, then you don't question the apparent contradiction.
And if you *don't* have Faith, then you shrug, and say that the stories are wishful thinking, and that they're not true (i.e., there never were any miracles--people just made that stuff up for their own purposes).

Answer 3

it is not for us to know what God/Jesus does, but only to except that he does everything for a purpose. Read the Bible Jesus did alot more miracles than just changing water into wine. How about the time he healed the blind man or caused the lame man to walk again?

Answer 4

Perhaps it would alter the question, and the answer to first consider that the water to wine story was plagiarized from one ancient religion to the next. As were all of the rest of the stories about Jesus in the Bible.

There are multiple sources - on the net and in print.

Answer 5

It is all in God's plans. We will not know untill we get up to heaven ourselves. Also, there have been plenty of times where jews have been persecuted minus the holocaust.....such as The Spanish Inquisition, or The Diaspora (Romans kicking the jews out of Jedea{if you didnt know})

Bottom line.....God had, and has a plan for everything ;)

Answer 6

Jesus performed the first miracle at the request of His mother. 1,935 years later, did the Jews ask Him/

Answer 7

Christian: "I know Jesus was God, because he performed miracles!"

Skeptic: "Prove it!"

Christian: "Um, you just have to have faith."

Skeptic: "Why is it that I have to have faith that some guy changed water into wine and fed 5000 people with three loaves of bread more than 2000 years ago, but I can't have faith that he will end war, hunger, and disease in modern times?"

Christian: "Well, it isn't God's plan to do those things."

Skeptic: "It was God's plan to perform superficial magic tricks for the amusement of a crowd of sheep herders and religious nuts, but it isn't in his plan to save the lives of billions of innocent people right here and now? It was his plan to raise some random nobody from death, but it wasn't his plan to save more than 6 million people from brutal slaughter by the Nazis?

Sorry, man, I'd sooner worship Mother Earth. At least she does some useful things for humanity!"

Answer 8

You can find the answer to this by reading the apostle Paul's book to the Romans in chapter 11. By the way, you can find out the answers to all your other questions about God, Jesus, and all other spiritual questions in the Bible also.

Answer 9

Yes, that would have been cool! But why start there? Why didn't He save James from being killed by Herod? Why didn't He stop Stephen from being killed by the Sanhedrin? Why didn't He stop the Romans from destroying Jerusalem in 70ad?

Acts 1:8 But you shall receive power, the Holy Spirit coming upon you. And you shall be witnesses (mártus) to Me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

mártus - is the Greek word from which we get the word Martyr.

As to the Jews who rejected Jesus, before He left He said...

Matthew 23:37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Answer 10

yes that would have been cool. the Bible says we should never ask why God does things, that he does everything for a purpose and the answer will come. instead of thinking about all the bad things about it, try to see the good things that came from it(i'll leave that part up to u, it's amazing what u find sometimes.)