if theres a god why all the natural disasters and wars?

Question

if i had that many children i wouldnt let that happen to them.well if i was god.if he made earth then surely he can control the tsunamis earthquakes wars etc.

Answer 1

If the biblical God actually existed, he is a homicidal psychopath.

There is no other conclusion.

But, he does not exist.

Atheism, the only logical choice.

Answer 2

Being an agnostic, I don't really care.

However, some possible reasons:

1. God is like The Federation on Star Trek and has a "Non-Interference" policy. This would mean that everyone is wrong about previous contact with God.

2. God is dead. He hasn't interfered with us for 2000 years because he isn't there any more.

3. God is testing us. After coming down in the past, he is now content to watch and judge.

4. God is sending those things as punishment.

5. God created the universe -- but we are just this biproduct that he doesn't really know much about.

6. God is watching us for entertainment value & doesn't want to mess with the outcome (any more).

7. God stopped caring about us when we killed his son.

8. Since the Mormons are safely tucked between two mountain ranges and away from the major faults -- God is trying to wipe the rest of us off the face of the planet.

9. Perhaps the wars are caused by men and the natural disasters are caused by a combinatin of chance and global warming and have nothing whatsoever to do with the existance of God.

10. He decided to only answer Jerry Falwell's prayers -- and Jerry is asking for money rather than world peace.

Answer 3

That depends on your religion. My religion focuses on balance, not good triumphing over evil, or happiness triumphing over sadness. In my religion, the good and the bad are two sides of the same coin - without one, the other simply could not exist. Without sadness, how could you ever truly understand happiness? How could anything exist without its opposite? Nature is beautiful in part /because/ it is unpredictable and dangerous.

Another way you might look at it is god ensuring that humans, intelligent and powerful and everything that we may be, are still quite humbled by nature's force. We should not become too complacent in believing that we can conquer everything, this earth included.

Another thing to consider - humans are at fault for wars. If you believe in and cherish free will, you have to accept that sometimes people will choose bad things.

Just some thoughts. My beliefs mostly revolve around the idea that suffering is a part of life, and without it, we would be numb, emotionless beings. The ability to know and understand tragedy and its flip side is one of the very things that make us human.

Answer 4

well, now you are a human being and you will be having one or two children. Will you be able to control them in all their activities? Of course in future also, they will suffer or enjoy their life as per their sin or good activities. That's the nature. You only gave birth to them. Then why you cant able to give them happiness always? No need to trust in god. Just have faith there is some power above us and it will do good if we are good and vice verca. In fact if that faith exists in this world, then people will be afraid to be violent with others know? Thats why that faith should be there.

Answer 5

Because if there IS a God...he obviously left us all alone on this horrible planet to deal with the horrible things that happen here. Despite the fact that we are "God's children"...he certainly does not act like a loving father, does he? What kind of parent abandons their children, leaving them in a dangerous, terrible and scary enviornment, and then supposedly is going to re-unite with them about 80 years after they suffer through their life? F this world.

Answer 6

You might be surprised to learn that man is actually behind many of the natural disasters that we see going on in the world today. I am going to provide you with a link that talks about this subject, http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2005/7/22/article_02.htm

I am also going to include a link that discusses your statement about God. He can do something about the disasters and he will.
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2005/7/22/article_03.htm

Answer 7

Our free will has brought a great grief to us
We are the ones who has rejected one another
not God
It grieves God that we have done so
in Genesis 6
it tells a story about it and it also mentions how it grieved God to His heart
that He had to see all this from man
See God cannot grieve if He already knew
So what happened was this
God kept it from Himself
He placed the all knowing in Divine Order
in it's own Abode He separated it

And watched us
And when He saw how bad we were
He had to punish us
We have caused Him Much pain

Answer 8

God is the Almighty creator. The Universe is the best possible because He could not do otherwise. Here there are universal laws that we cannot understand fully. Here there are Liberty in the most wide sense of the world. There are an equilibrium that we hardly can see... we see events as you described as violence.

Answer 9

Many of his children rebelled with Satan, instead of condemning them to death with Satan, he instead made them flesh, to see who will over come death!
This flesh world he commands, he has laid out in a book what will happen, this shell not change!
All will have a chance at life and a chance to overcome. But many especially in the end times shell be those who hated him the most, and those who loved him the most.

Fear not for the children who die for they shell enter the kingdom of heaven, but fear for the young MEN who will enter the kingdom of the Anti-Christ, and there lose there souls!

Answer 10

Wars-------manmade!!

Natural disasters----mother nature!!!