I've heard good religious explanations of why good things happen to bad people; most of them tend to suggest that God doesn't directly intervene in history. If you believe the divine intervention described in the Bible in a purely literal sense, how do you view modern tragedies - Holocaust, 9/11, for example - with respect to divine intervention?
2006-07-31 05:53:33 · 10 answers · asked by speckless 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To seeking answers: on any given day, people are bound not to show up to work; out of the 6 million people killed in Holocaust, it would shocking if there were not a few scenarios that allowed some to escape. That a few people escaped both tradegies is not evidence of divine intervention - it is evidence of luck, and in the case of 9/11, the free will of those who chose not to go to work that day. Christianity staunchly supports free will - it is often used as an explanation for why bad things happen to good people, as people have the free will to harm others. It's odd that you would suggest that God somehow manipulated the will of these people.
2006-07-31 11:04:16 · update #1
Divine intervention can exist without requiring God to intervene in every situation. Just because there was a 9/11 or holocaust does not mean that there is no God.
2006-07-31 05:57:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think in some cases there was divine intervention in the Holocaust or 9/11. Corrie ten Boom was accidentally released instead of being sent to the gas chamber. There are numerous stories of people running late to work or having a family situtation arise that prevented them from being in the WTC on 9/11.
Why doesn't God intervene on a large scale? I don't know. I have read the book of Job and do know that Satan can only go so far and do so much. God is totally in control of everything and all will be revealed in His time.
God sent His son not to condemn the world but to save the world. He doesn't want anyone to perish. However, Satan comes to destroy. Right now people are choosing sin and the earth is rightfully Satan's. One day God is going to send Jesus back and the battle will be fought and Jesus will rightfully win and we won't face these tragedies anymore.
2006-07-31 06:14:09 · answer #2 · answered by Seeking answers in Him 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For reasons we don't understand, God did not intervene on 9/11. He did not intervene during the internment, and murder, of millions of His chosen people. An intelligent question is: why? If He is a God of love, why does God allow this?
It's a very fair question, and it's asked often. I think the best and fairest answer is: we cannot know. We cannot read and know the mind of the infinite, divine God. The closest I can come to giving you an answer, and, with questions that involve God, I always want to go to the source: His word (the bible), would be to point you to the book of Job. At the end of this book, Job asks God a similar question: why? God then comes back with 32 questions of His own. I feel this always puts me back in the place where I need to be: He is God, I am not. I cannot understand His ways.
I do, however, respect and love God for who He is...therefore, in all things, I trust Him, no matter how much I may not understand.
2006-07-31 06:03:42 · answer #3 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the divine intervention is actually God allowing these mass murders/ tragedies occur. Maybe he wants people to realize that NO god would ever want you to blindly follow him or devote your existence to him. Through these tragedies, maybe people will learn that maybe religion isn't such a good thing!
2006-07-31 06:01:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Divine intervention is purely up to God. It's not up to us to comprehend God's plan. God allows things to happen to us for different reasons unbeknownst to us. No one died in the Holocaust, 9/11, or Katrina that God did not intend to die. For whatever reason God allowed these tragedies to happen and is not for us to comprehend but to know that there was a reason behind it. God has his own plan and sometime he allows destruction to keep us in line. But that is not up to us to comprehend. Its all up to God.
2006-07-31 07:00:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Easily. Psalm 139 states that God has all of your days written in his book - from birth to death. This then means that God planned for all those 3+ millions of Jews to die horribly in the ovens.... If we continue this thought process, we see that Hitler then was doing God's work when he killed those millions of Jews.
Therefore, Hitler was a saint.
2006-07-31 05:59:38 · answer #6 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry. Can't help you since I don't believe in the Bible. I am anxious to see the answers, though.
2006-07-31 05:57:47 · answer #7 · answered by Allison L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
god must have been away in a galaxey far far away or it might be the is no god
2006-07-31 05:57:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read or watch shindlers list. (mis.Spl)
there are others
2006-07-31 06:39:05 · answer #9 · answered by Grandreal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm an atheist..
2006-07-31 05:56:47 · answer #10 · answered by Phil S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋