With all sorts of natural disasters running rampant in our world does God feel bad about them? Can God feel remorse if God is infallible? Being infallible entails not being wrong and being remorseful entails feeling sorry for your actions. Therefore if God feels bad for something God did then what God did was wrong which would make God fallible. On the other hand if God doesn't feel bad for the death of millions of innocents through natural causes is he really the sort of God people should worship?
I ask this not to cause trouble or start fights. I'm not trying to convert anyone away from their beliefs. I only ask to gain understanding. Please if you answer I'm really only interested in the theist perspective because I know what the atheists are going to say. Also I ask you only attack my arguement, not me, and that you provide supporting details.
2006-07-21 03:32:25 · 9 answers · asked by Jake S 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'd be curious to know how man's sins caused Katrina, Rita, tsunamis, earthquakes, etc. I'd accept that God is sending them as punishment for our sins but that raises all sorts of other questions that I won't get into here.
2006-07-21 03:44:15 · update #1
remorse
Moral anguish arising from repentance for past misdeeds; bitter regret
2006-07-21 03:45:27 · update #2
god said he regretted what he did in flooding the earth and actually placed the rainbow in the sky to remind himself not to kill everyone again. so, not only did he feel remorse, he has A.D.D.
god also put a mark of protection on Cain after Cain killed his brother because God rejected Cain's gifts. to protect a brother-killer, god must have realized he was to blame.
2006-07-21 03:38:09 · answer #1 · answered by cassandra 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God always makes the best choice
God can have conflicting feeling about things, as a best choice may not be a comfortable choice in all respects
God may also speak in anthropomirphic terms, being sorry or repenting in Jonah for example, or after the made man given that a sinner repents be will act one way and for out understanding my say God relented ot repented.
The plan to send Jesus to die for the sin of man, that was a done deal before creation, before making man and God knew what would happpen and it was the best choice, it was not a comfortable choice
2006-07-21 03:38:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1- God likes His creatures. However, if God destined someone to some fate, then God is the only one who knows: why? If you can answer this question properly, then you are God.
2- The verb "feel" is related to creatures, specifically, human beings. God "knows without the need to feel" and we cannot use "feel" with God. Hence, anything related to feeling or senses are earthly concepts, not heavenly concepts.
3- Death is inevitable, and if there are limited ways to die, then death will be predictable, which is a horrible thing.
4- When one dies, the body dies not the soul. We all get sad to lose some loved ones, but this sadness will gradually fade out! Eventually, you will forget! Is forgetting humane? If it is humane, then how we define humanity? Isn't against humanity to forget? However, philosophy of forgetting is that God wants to be merciful with human beings, or else, life would be very hard.
2006-07-21 04:05:00 · answer #3 · answered by design_gecko 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has a plan for this earth that is more important than these things. Of course, He feels sorrow for the collateral damage that comes from our planet being a fallen world. But He doesn't feel remorse, because that would mean He caused it.
Man caused it, through the sin of our first parents and all the selfish sins man committed on top of that.
Jesus predicted these things for these last days, but that doesn't mean He caused them.
2006-07-21 03:40:52 · answer #4 · answered by freelancenut 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are judging, "...the death of millions of innocents ". How do you know that they are innocent? Let God do the judging. To be absent from this body is to be present with the Lord.
2 Corinthians - Chapter 5:6.
God did repent that he made men flesh. Genesis 6:6 "And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart."
2006-07-21 03:58:51 · answer #5 · answered by LP S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God, to my understanding, is a being of emotions. When the power of natural disasters overwhelm humankind, why God doesn't intervene is unknown to me. But I shall not blame him. With the collective 'sins' we have, are we worth it?
No one can come up with an answer about why God does this or don't do that. Everything is guess work and assumptions.
2006-07-21 03:44:48 · answer #6 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity and other religions depict 'God' as emotional, among other unflattering things. Emotions come from hormones and chemicals in the brain.
'God' has no brain; 'God' has no physical body - and 'God' is in no way human.
'God' doesn't interfere with our world other than through a set of natural laws; e.g. action = reaction.
As long as humans blame 'God' and/or 'Satan' for what's happening, they're sitting in the dark, crying like babies, pretending daddy's going to come and turn on the light.
2006-07-21 03:40:59 · answer #7 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think feeling remorse means you feel you did something wrong parents feel remorse when they have to punish their children even though they were doing it for the right reason they still feel bad .God felt bad for flooding the earth that is why we see rainbows now its his promise to us that he will not destroy the earth that way again
2006-07-21 03:42:49 · answer #8 · answered by frogger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOD never wants to punish innocents but those who cause trouble to innocent ppl or his devotees especially he has to kill them by giving them painful death. If you think this person was innocent who was killed then my frnd sorry bcos u have just seen his this life's activities Lord knows him since time immemorial.
I hope my answer meets best to your thinking.
2006-07-21 03:46:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋