How can anyone suffocate their own children?

Question

If god is true, then how could he suffocate his own children in an Earthly flood except those on the ark? Does god not believe in family values? If you believe that god is good, then shouldn't Andrea Yates go free? I know it sounds ridiculous, but do the logic if you believe in god. If you do, then Andrea is just as nice as god.

(Google Andrea Yates, if this question doesn't make sense to you)

Wow, I am astonished that a few of you absolve Andrea AND God of the guilt of murder. Amazing!!! Tell more! I am interested!

conradmex, you are exactly the person I am asking this question for. What kind of god would be above goodness? It's so simple. What kind of god creates people that he has to kill. To create and kill is not a godly act.

Wow conradmex, you logic is dizzyingly cyclical!!! Did you actually just absolve god of the murder that he committed? Let’s put some numbers here… Maybe a hundred million people or so? Your god can kill that many people and you say he had his reasons? WOW!!! Wow is all I can say!!!

Michelle, you make a good point about postpartum depression. Sadly that is not the question at hand. (Unless you are making an analogy of god being someone suffering from postpartum depression) If god was so "Just", then he would never have to drown anybody.

WOW, nonCom technically answered this correctly... So wrong... So wrong!!!!

Answer 1

If there was a God he'd strike you dead for posting that! ....... but since God died in the Big Bang (he should have taken Physics and Chemistry and he might be alive today). But fortunately for, you he made a bad booboo and he poof!

But, Miss Yates was legally insane when she killed her kids. NO ONE can kill their own kids and be sane, NO ONE. But, if God were real, he should have saved them, period! No ifs, ands or buts. Spew all the Biblical Bable you want, if there is a God, he sucks big time!

Answer 2

God is a just God as well as loving. He must judge sin if the sinner will not repent.
Andrea Yates is not a god and is not given power to pass life of death judgment over others.
God on the other hand does pass judgment on us and will continue to do so without our permission. You presume to judge God, he will judge you when he is ready. How will you answer him?? If you have ever been in a real court, then you know that the prisioners do not pass judgment on the judge, even though the judge is another human being.
God is owner, creator, and judge of this world that we live in. He does as he will.
IT IS NOT THAT GOD is above goodness, but that you do not understand what He is doing and why he is doing it. You still seem to think that life is all about this short time we spend here on earth and it is a much bigger picture. I can only think that you don't want to understand, as I don't know any other way to explain it than has already been said on YA . Over all God will do what he wants and if we do not like it, he will still do what he wants. He does not normally strike people down for what they say or do, but lets our very short lives take their courses. You will eventually see the light at the end of the tunnel for good or bad.. God only knows your case..

Answer 3

God drown the evil blood line of Caine and Abel (Adam and Eve's Children). Sin came into the world when Eve bit the apple and man, Adam, followed along. After that, Caine slew Able, basically over jealousy. Then, Angels were coming down from Heaven and mating with giants, also known as humans. This created the evil again, after God sent Caine to the Land of Nod. So, to get rid of this, he drown everyone, but Noah and his family, 'cause at the time, his family was the only one without sin.

Answer 4

God always said that he would punish those that sinned - although we only know what we read and it isn't nor will it be a detailed story so getting into that would only seem as one opinion over another. As for this person God does not control man's law and way he chooses to live this is the free will. if this person sinned or not has nothing to do with how the law of the land views it and they find her guilty then that is not Gods blame now as far as Standing being judged by God we will never see her trial in Gods eyes. If she sin against Gods laws and her heart she knows she sinned will God will show no mercy because He is God and he has rules for all and if we can not abide them we will be sent to hell.

Answer 5

Actually..........I do believe that Andrea Yates should go free (or at least institutionalized). If you have bothered to do ANY real research on her you would know that she had pregnancy induced psychosis----well documented in her pregnancy history. She was strongly cautioned not to have any more children but did so at the request of her husband. I can not imagine the torture she goes through every single day of her life.

As for God----you have to remember that God is just. God loves all his children, all his creations----but still he is just.

Answer 6

Ethics and morality are guy-made constructs, and through situations of disaster they regularly flow excellent out the window. The extra intense the disaster, the extra in all probability human beings are to flow with their straightforward instincts, this is to live on. this party jogs my memory of yet another ethic predicament I heard the different day even as observing a documentary about the sinking of the MS Estonia. because the deliver became taking position, passengers were on the decks looking for lifejackets, notwithstanding the cubicles conserving the lifejackets were painted over, and the paint acted as a glue, so there have been not sufficient lifejackets. some passengers began stealing individuals's lifejackets. Of the few survivors, just about all were man or woman adult men.

Answer 7

Me as a mother...no I don't get it....but from the bit I know about God is that he created this world, he created us....we got so preoccupied with the world and the pleasures that lay with the world that we were like "God who..?" Do what, pass the wine!! Party! There's no way that thing called God could create fun like this.... So I think God was like, WTF....okay...I have fun waiting 100 times anything I show you on earth....I'll flood your fun and start over with a new crop....and I think that's what he did....and if we are not as bad as the first bunch, it makes me wonder, what in the world were they doing to tick him off that bad....??

Answer 8

I do not believe in God. Yet, i think that any act of a human has reasons, no matter how horrible that act is. Any act needs, after the proper punishment, to be forgiven. Even acts like this.

Answer 9

Because the God described in the phony "Bible" is a false God and the true God, Giggles, would never have done that!

Answer 10

I beleive it was just a natural melting of the ice caps, god let science do its work. If this seems odd, look at my answer to thoughts on god question.