God doesn't stop starvation, hunger and war because he doesn't want to, right?

Answer 1

People need to quit relying on / blaming god for these things. Unless humanity its self does something, nothing will happen. This is OUR world. And only we hold to key to fixing these problems.

Answer 2

In other words, why does God allow suffering? Be careful, because one day God may ask us why WE allowed other people to suffer, since it is within our power to stop most of it. ;-)

A complete answer is beyond human understanding, because a finite human mind cannot hope to ever completely comprehend the infinite mind of God. But the following article (based on two popular books by C. S. Lewis), might help:

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"The Problem of Pain", the first of a series of popular works on Christian doctrine, was written in 1940, twenty years before his beloved wife, Joy Davidman, died of cancer in the third year of their short-lived marriage. In the book Lewis considers the problem of suffering from a purely theoretical standpoint. Years later, struck with a daunting grief of a mourning husband he will write another classic on pain, a masterpiece of introspection: "A Grief Observed". It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it. C. S. Lewis had both.

The existence of suffering in a world created by a good and almighty God — "the problem of pain" — is a fundamental theological dilemma and perhaps the most serious objection to the Christian religion. The issue is serious enough already in Theism. Christianity aggravates the problem by insisting on Love as the essence of God; then, unexpectedly, it makes a half turn and points to the Mystery of suffering — to Jesus, "the tears of God." Lewis does not propose to penetrate the mystery. He is content enough with approaching pain as mere problem that demands a solution; he formulates it and goes about solving it. "If God were good, He would make His creatures perfectly happy, and if He were almighty He would be able to do what he wished. But the creatures are not happy. Therefore God lacks either goodness, or power, or both." With a characteristic conciseness and clarity Lewis sets the stage for the entire book in the first paragraph of Chapter 2. "The possibility of solving [the problem] depends on showing that the terms 'good' and 'almighty', and perhaps also the term 'happy', are equivocal: for it must be admitted from the outset that if the popular meanings attached to these words are the best, or the only possible, meaning, then the argument is unanswerable". In the remaining nine chapters, Lewis will develop this basic statement through an in-depth reflection on divine omnipotence, divine goodness, human condition, human and animal pain, and last, but not least, hell and heaven.

The main argument of "The Problem of Pain" is preceded by a presentation of an atheist objection to the existence of God based on the observable futility of the universe. The book starts on a personal note: "Not many years ago when I was an atheist … ". There follows a compelling picture of a universe filled with futility and chance, darkness and cold, misery and suffering; a spectacle of civilizations passing away, of human race scientifically condemned to a final doom and of a universe bound to die. Thus, "either there is no spirit behind the universe, or else a spirit indifferent to good and evil, or else an evil spirit". On the other hand, "if the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? […] The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been ground for religion: it must always have been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held". But, where should we look for the sources? ....

Answer 3

This is more of a complex question than you think. God is all powerful. However, in Genesis 2, God gave the governance of the world--the authority over the world--to human beings. They were created in the image of God to rule the world. That's why there is suffering right now...because our sin has caused it. Our failures cause the current problems. Could God stop it all. Yes. One day he will.
Does he WANT to stop it? Yes and no. God allows time for mankind to see how unfixable the problems are to mankind. Thier only option should be to call on him for aid, but we are pretty selfish and won't do it. When Christ comes back he will rectify the problem. He is God in human flesh. Therefore, he will be the man who will rectify man's problems. He has authority (both heavenly and earthly) and will rectify our problems.

Answer 4

I would say "God sends down starvation, hunger and war because he wants to". Nothing takes place without God's will. But we read in almost all religious scriptures that God test His people. This life is probably a test for the hereafter. So God wants to test the faith of His people by putting them through difficulties. God wants to test the depths of the faith of the believers ---- whether they have faith in Him even during times of distress. Patience and faith are the best virtues during troubled times.

Answer 5

Starvation and war are started by man and can be cured by man. When someone says it is "God's plan" or "Satan's doing" they are looking for scapegoats. If this world of ours is going to be fixed it will not be from some Divine being but because we finally pulled our collective minds out of our butts and did something about it.

Answer 6

Actually I believe that He wants us to stop starvation, hunger, and war. He left us in charge of earth (and we've made a real mess of things).

Answer 7

God placed everything that we would need to live on Earth man just hasn't used the material in the correct way. All of the things you listed are results from someones decision. God told us how he wants us to lead our lives but he can't make every decision for us. Not saying that pple suffering from hunger choose to be like that, they are just victims of society. Everyone has a destiny and not all are good

Answer 8

If everything in this world was good, we wouldn't know goodness. And if everyone in this world was happy, we would have no chance to better ourselves.

Suffering occurs so people better off can look around and realise they are better off. We have free will to choose to do God's work and choose to share our advantages with others, or to choose to turn our back's.

Starvation, hunger and war can be ended by us, as a group, by working together. God doesn't end them, not because He doesn't want to, but because He wants us to. He doesn't like to see His children suffering, but He knows that in the long run, it's kinder to let us work it out for ourselves.

Answer 9

Let's look at it this way. If you took the scraps from the restaurants alone that they dump every day,you could feed the hungry worldwide and less than 10% of any population eats out any given day.Wars are started by man and God allows us to have choices and changes in our lives. We have the food, we have the ability to wage no war.Turn the weapons into plows and they will war no more, man made the weapons right, he seeks his advantages, he protects his borders, from who? Other men right? ..So God is to blame?

Answer 10

No, god doesn't stop starvation, hunger, and war being god doesn't exist.

Answer 11

Mythical beings have a consistent problem where specific action is required.

They only work at a general causal level and are pretty useful to blame for natural disasters and shortcomings in the human psyche.

When it comes to actually doing something concrete, the theists usually use the "god works thorough us in mysterious ways" or "it's god's will" argument.