If there's a God, why are there diseases, cancer, earthquakes, hurricanes?Why didn't you make a perfect place?

Question

Did you make disease?

Why are there disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, etc when they kill people?

You're always letting us humans down. The wars you bring, the babes you drown.

Why didn't you make a more perfect place for us?
We all need a big reduction in amount of tears on Earth.

Did you make mankind after we made you? I think so.

Answer 1

I think that this site has a good discussion. http://www.franciscan-anglican.com/The_Problem_of_Evil.htm

(Nice XTC lyric references btw)

Answer 2

If you believe in God (good) then you must also believe in his counterpart Satan (evil). Satan has produced the negatives that you listed (earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes,disease)that are outside of our control. Then there is a little thing called free will. God did not bring war people bring war, God does not drown babies people drown babies. God is an excuse that has been used for ages by people to explain why they are doing things that would otherwise seem inappropriate. God told me to is childish. What God did say in one form or another in pretty much all religions is, treat others as you would like to be treated, and he will judge the heart of people it is not our place to judge each other.

Answer 3

If there's a god It is a personal thing, Just like the expression heaven is a place on earth, We create our own heaven and hell just as we create our own god. When terrible, unexpected or just downright cruel things happen we want to blame someone or something tangible - so we lash out and say either 'It's God's fault,' or 'God can not exist otherwise this would not have happened.' The fact is humankind as a collective has an individual, group, communial, national and international responsability to accept that sometimes there isn't a reason or a logic. Sometimes the more we search for someone to blame the more hurt we cause.

Answer 4

Who do you no who's desirable i am going to't imagine of all people, God isn't desirable he's purely someone to grant you desire that in some unspecified time sooner or later when we meet him he will love and take care of us like no individual else ever has. He has no administration over what takes position right here in the international , he enable's us try this, 'what's maximum cancers? this is what we've placed into the international no longer God , little ones are sufferer's of the international we stay in , no longer sufferer's of God

Answer 5

I think you need to get a Bible and began reading at Genesis1. Everything that happens in our lives or this world, happens because we, the people that God created allow it when we invite sin into our lives. These sicknesses are passed down through family generations and will continue until that curse is broken off of that family. As far as the disasters are concerned, God is no respecter of persons. The vengence is His and when He has had enough, THAT'S IT. Just like in the days of Noah. Maybe a praying America will heal the land. God is moved by compassionate prayer, praise and worship, and the knowledge of His Word.

Answer 6

People may wonder why, if God exists, He doesn’t wave a magic wand and fix things, making or at least influencing everyone so that they do exactly what they ‘should’ do. But God never takes away anyone’s freedom of choice. God’s wisdom is to recognize and respect each soul’s individual identity, freedom and inherent goodness. God shares knowledge – a profound understanding of the dualities and dilemmas of love and hatred, happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat, etc. – but He does not make our choices for us. The soul is free to choose ‘to be or not to be’, ‘to love or not to love’. God’s love strengthens the soul’s will to free itself from the distresses caused by vices such as selfish desire, anger, fear, ego and attachment. God’s power helps the soul to recognize its highest potential and to aim for perfection by practising the art of simple living and high thinking. Such practice by a significant number of souls eventually brings about positive change in the whole of humanity.

Answer 7

God made the world perfect but gave him a mind to make decisions and he chose to disobey God. Most of the problems we have in the world are man made and the natural disasters are a way of thinning the heard because if no one died prematurly , we would really be overpopulated. Dieases usually occur because people mess with nature or live unhealthy lifestyles where as war occurs because of people not being able to get along with each other.

Answer 8

God DID make a perfect place, but He created Adam and Eve with free will. He did not want a couple of puppets. Unfortunately, Adam and Eve made a bad choice when they did the very thing that God had told them not to do....eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. As a result of their disobedience, they were cast out of the Garden of Eden with many, many bad consequences that they CHOSE....and unfortunately we are still dealing with the consequences of their disobedience.

You can read the story in Genesis ch 1-3.

Answer 9

I am sorry that you feel as you feel, and I hope what somebody says to you give you a word that will comfort you, God sees everything for good, no matter how bad it may be, to be able to live somewhere without tears and wars and all the things you don't like please try to believe again ask for forgiveness and go to heaven then and only then will you see a new world a perfect place. people are NOT made to live forever we are born to die the thing is where do you want to be?

Answer 10

God created this planet so we could be tried. He lets us go through trials so we can learn to overcome challenges. If life was always easy, we would never grow. If we had a perfect knowledge of everything from the beginning, our faith would never develop. He never said there would be no storms in life. He never said our bodies would not get sick and die. He knows that our life on Earth is only temporary, and when it's time to go, it's time to go. We will be resurrected one day, with perfect bodies that never become weak. We will be reunited with our loved ones. Remember, life on Earth is only a testing period. We just need to keep an eternal perspective.

Answer 11

Have you ever thought that it is very egocentric to see the world through human criteria only? For example, bacteria, who are also works of God, feed on us, should we be the only ones who get to eat others? Also, the earth is already overpopulated by a destructive species (humans). Can you imagine what would happen if she couldn't defend herself by killing some with earthquakes, etc? As for all the crime, that is still the humans' choice. So don't blame God for not matching our criteria!