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One word: SIN We all sin, we all deserve death. Even the innocent. But if they are truly innocent or believe on Christ, when death comes upon us, we are in the Presence of God.

2006-08-14 16:48:42 · answer #1 · answered by Carrie 4 · 0 0

The Scriptures don't teach that God controls everything...He IS all powerful and Supreme over all....but He created man in His own image and gave us authority and dominion in this earth. We receive protection from the Lord and great deliverance when we submit our lives wholly over to Him....but unless we are living sensitive and obedient to His voice and leading, we're pretty much going to reap the fruit of our own ways. That's not a successful place to be.
We have Adam to thank for the disasters....when he opened the door to the devil, all that was of God in Adam's nature died. And he passed that along to all of us. That's why every person is so in need of Jesus. Either we are identified with our original ancestor Adam...complete with his fallen nature and rebellion against God....or we are identified with Christ when we believe on Him. The disasters are not of God...if you didn't see Jesus "ministering" disaster in the Gospels, then God isn't ministering disaster today. People will tell you the disasters are God's judgment (9/11, Katrina, etc), but the truth is these disasters were either concocted by evil men, or the result of a creation which has been corrupted by Adam's rebellion in the garden. (It was all put under Adam's care, so of course when he turned it over to the devil we started seeing the devil's influence.) The Scriptures teach that Jesus came to deliver those who were oppressed of the devil and heal the sick. He is the full expression of God's goodness, mercy, and the Divine will for every man. If you don't see Jesus killing babies with cancer in the Bible, then He isn't doing that today.
God's ultimate purpose and plan will be accomplished when this earth is completely delivered and restored...that day is coming, but don't believe the lies against God that you're hearing today. God isn't the author of our trouble. We have an enemy who deceives us - his name is satan, and we have our own willful, disobedient, ungodly natures to contend with. Not everything is the devil...sometimes we manufacture our own trouble well enough without him. However, God IS the source of our deliverance. Just like a parent telling you not to play in the traffic when you're old enough to go out on your own, you have to hear and obey that parent in order to stay out of trouble. God's Spirit leads us away from disasters every day....but not everyone is listening. And sometimes those who hear willfully disobey. THAT is the source of the disasters you see....not our Heavenly Father.

2006-08-15 00:04:07 · answer #2 · answered by CassandraM 6 · 0 0

If the suns shines it gets hot and sometimes people die from heat exhaustion. If it rains hard rivers flood and sometimes people drown. That is nature as god intended and he never made any one immortal that I know of. And who is innocent anyway? you cant see into other peoples hearts and if it is children who are very young then they will end up in a better place than us. He does not cause these thing he simply allows them.

2006-08-14 23:52:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Here are some reasons why God allows sufferings exist:

"Praise be to God, thou art severed from all else save the Heavenly Father. Thou hast been of the earth -- thou art now of the Kingdom. Thou hast been of the world -- thou art now of the Realm of Might. Thou art spreading the divine Teachings. Thank thou God, thou art bearing trials in the path of the Kingdom and art enduring persecutions and sufferings. These afflictions are conducive to the spiritual development and the descent of the Holy Spirit.
(Abdu'l-Baha, Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha v1, p. 223)

2006-08-14 23:57:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

God allows things that you call a disaster. There are many reasons for Him to allow this. If people never went through difficulties they would not grow, many would not ever seek God, life would not be appreciated or valued if it were always easy.
Try to read the book of Job.

2006-08-15 00:35:37 · answer #5 · answered by shepherd 5 · 0 0

God is in control, and he has decided to give us free will, and we are killing people and destroying the earth. He has also told us he will send his Son Jesus back to earth i stop the people that are destroying the earth. So with your free will people are getting killed. It breaks my heath to see that people cannot just get along.

2006-08-14 23:53:13 · answer #6 · answered by marshall_blake2000 2 · 0 0

God might be in control of the universe, but we are in control on this earth. He gave it to us to run. He runs heaven. Do the homework. Don't just listen to what everyone tells you.

2006-08-14 23:49:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

God does not want his children to suffer at all. When Adam (mankind) ate the fruit of the knowledge of both good and evil he received a sentence of death. To prevent contamination of the Land of the Living with evil we could not remain there so we were cast down to the world of the dead.

Man was exiled from the Land of the Living to the land of the dead where there is no Knowledge, no Wisdom, and no Understanding. Thus Man caused his own death by eating the "fruit" that was poisoned with the "knowledge of evil," and caused himself to be cast into the endless cycle of the fires of Hades. God has never wished to torment Man endlessly in the fires of this world, but He has rather been working for ages on a plan to rescue Man from the place that has entrapped him.

The Scriptures tell us of the plan of God to save us out of the world of the dead and to save us from being condemned along with this world. The theme of the entire Bible (despite its apparent diversity and variety of men who wrote it down) is concerning the plan of God to free man from the captivity he brought upon himself. And man (Adam) has no idea or notion of the sacrifice that God has made for man's redemption -- to free man from the captivity that he works so hard at to retain. The entire Bible, from front to back, is concerned with releasing Adam (Man) from his sentence of death, from his imprisonment in the world, which is "beneath", and restoring him to his former estate.

Man's lack of memory is the reason for the messages from our Father trying to bring former things back to our minds. The Scriptures are the Father's attempts to prod us to remembrance. The beginning of the Book tells us that Man was exiled from the Garden so that he could not partake of the Tree of Life, receiving a sentence of death. The ending of the Book tells us of the resurrection of Man from the dead. The same theme runs through the entire Book, the theme of rescuing Adam from the land of his exile, from the world of the dead.

2006-08-15 00:22:58 · answer #8 · answered by Ninizi 3 · 1 0

That's the work of men, not God. We have free will, and if we choose to use it to destroy one another, then that is our own fault.

2006-08-14 23:49:56 · answer #9 · answered by James P 6 · 0 0

we all have our own free will... and of course, those innocent ones may have done something in their past life that they are getting it back now... and those people "harassing" other innocent people, may have been harassed in their past life... you get what i mean?!... that's called KARMA...

2006-08-14 23:49:10 · answer #10 · answered by mini_me 1 · 0 0

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