If someone is drowning and I could save them with a thought and I just watch them drown, is it ok because I didn't push them in the water? If God is in control of EVERYTHING how can there be ANYTHING that God is not held accountable for. If I put a gun to someone's head and pull the trigger God could jam the gun if he wanted to because he can do ANYTHING right? So if the gun fires and they die, how does God escape all responsiblity for it?
Can a president say "I didn't make the people poor. I just allowed them to starve to death while money to feed them sat in the treasury" and we just go "OK that makes sense."?
2006-07-14 06:29:20 · 4 answers · asked by Chris D 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Free will is the ability that God gave each of us to create our own reality. God will not interfere with this. God does not give it and then take it away at either God's or our convenience. Once given, it's all up to us.
The universal law of attraction is that the vibrations (via our conscious or unconscious beliefs, thoughts, emotions, words, actions) that we put into the world, and whether they are positive or negative, love-based or fear-based, lead to the events that we experience in return, in one form or another.
These vibrations occur singly, by individuals and collectively, by societies and cultures, in the form of natural disasters, disease, pandemics, war, terrorism etc. etc.
2006-07-14 06:35:47 · answer #1 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are several different views on those ideas. Some people argue that God is all powerful and omniscient. Can God be all good, and all powerful? Why would an all loving God allow evil and suffering? So people who assert these attributes of God have to reconcile those notions with the idea that God has reasons for allowing suffering and evil, and that everything that happens, happens for some mystical, but ultimately good reason, that we may never know.
Others would rather reconcile these issues by giving up the idea of God as all powerful. If humans truly have free will, then God is limited in human activity, and in the natural order of the world. These questions were especially examined by theologians in the wake of WWII and the Holocaust. Many theologians began to follow Jurgenn Moltmann's idea of a "suffering God." That God is most present with the innocent sufferers.There is a very good interview with Elie Wiesel on speakingoffaith.org on NPR, discussing some of these issues.
Liberation theology asserts that God has a preferential option for the poor, they teach that if we look through scripture we see God is always for the cause of the poor.
I've tried to be unbiased, but you can probably tell which perspective makes sense to me...:)
2006-07-14 13:48:09 · answer #2 · answered by keri gee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you want to blame God for everything and then turn around and say free will,free will,it is people that let,not God.God has a perfect will,and God has a permissive will,what will you do with that?
2006-07-14 13:38:09 · answer #3 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agree. I love how "god" stands in direct violation of the lesson taught in the story of "the good Samaritan".
I look at it this way .. if you are indeed all knowing and all powerful then everything is your fault all the time.
If there is indeed a god, he is indeed a bastard.
2006-07-14 13:34:16 · answer #4 · answered by sam21462 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋