If god is kind and loving........................?

Question

Why would he allow the innocent children of the world to suffer starvation, diseases, abuse, and murder? I live close to the area that Jessica Lundsford used to live, until she was abducted and killed. And, it is a sore spot for alot of the people in the community. For you christians who answer with "God is love" and other mindless, cookie-cutter, church tripe, have you ever had a terriblely awful thing happen to someone you know, and asked yourself, "How could god let this happen?"

So it was god's will that she was suffocated in a garbage bag, after being assaulted and locked in a closet? I'm sure there could've been a nicer way to bring her to a "better place" than that. Can't he send his firey chariot anymore? I think a messy car accident would have been a kinder choice even. Try harder

She did not put herself in danger, she was snatched from her bedroom.

Answer 1

i asked something similar before i said god is pro choice cause if he knew people were going to get abortions and didnt stop it, why not, why not come down from the sky and stop the killing of the innocent

absentee landlord

Answer 2

I agree with you and I wonder the same thing. I am so sick of this "God's will" crap. Was 9/11 God's will? Personally, the only explanation I can come up with is that because we have a free will, we can also use it for evil. Sometimes we are just in the wrong place and the right time. Cancer killing children can not be God's will either, bad things happen.

Some people believe that we chose how we will die before we are ever born. That we chose that for a reason that we will remember when we cross over to be with God again. Personally, I like that idea best. That for some unknown reason, which may not even occur until years after our death, that our death was supposed to happen. Of course, if my son was raped and murdered even believing that would not help me deal with the grief and anger I would feel.

Answer 3

People make bad choices, but if we did not have the ability to make bad choices, we would not have any choice in anything at all. We would cease to be sentient beings; we could not think for ourselves; we would be robots.

We all suffer on earth. Some suffer more than others. As emotionally challenging as that is, I know that you can't have pleasure without knowing what pain is. it is just the way things are on earth. Was her death any less painful that someone who SUFFERS from cancer for years and years before finally dying? It's a tough call.

But without pain, we cannot understand pleasure. Without both good and bad feelings, we again are like the robots, neither feeling any pleasure or any pain.

I'm very sorry for the traumatic thing that happened. But is Jessica suffering now? Humans tend to think of things right before them. Jessica's suffering was a horrible thing, but she has an eternity in heaven. She may have suffered for minutes, hours, or days. Not to belittle that, but how does that compare to a billion years? Or a billion times a billion to the billionth power...and that is only a fraction of eternity...

It seems that you are feeling angry with God for allowing that. The next time something good happens to you, or the next time you try a dessert you like, or the next time a guy flirts with you, or the next time you see a sunset, just remember that you couldn't enjoy that unless God had given you the ability to feel.

Answer 4

You have no idea how many times I have answered this question: God allows bad things to happen in order to make us stronger people. It is the same concept as being disciplined as a child; you were punished (a.k.a. you suffered) in order to make yourself a better person so that you wouldn't do the wrong things.

Another note to make is that God is perfect: everything he created was made perfect. However, Man screwed it up when Man sinned in the Garden of Eden.

Justice delayed is not always justice denied. If God doesn't deliver the justice now, He will when the time is right.

If you want more information on the issue, check out this link:

http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/hell.html

Answer 5

I believe God stands back and and lets random things happen to us like suffering and death. Every once in a while he steps in and rescues some of us for a bigger cause (don't ask me what that is, i don't know) if GOD got rid of disease and suffering then he would have to be "fair" and everyone would have to be able to live the same number of years. and to be "fair" everyone should be just as intelligent as everybody else in the world, and everyone as equally attractive and it continues on until we are all exactly alike. its the unknown that makes life worth living and it is supposed to make all of us treasure this very day because of the uncertainty of tomorrow. I too have lost people to disease and accidents. although that might leave an empty void in my heart it does truly get somewhat replaced with the belief that they are in a better place than we are and will suffer no more...!!!

Answer 6

To each his own, to the guy above me there.

According to the Bible, right now Satan rules Earth, and will until Jesus walks the Earth again and the Golden City springs forth. So, by that thinking, things happen fault of Satan.

Some believe that God has a purpose for everything, that EVERYTHING happens according to some GREAT PLAN. But I have to ask, if God made everything in a set pattern, already knowing exactly what would happen, wouldn't He get REAL bored? Why stick around? Like watching "Titanic" eight times straight like my brother did. What's the point? Therefore:

My belief is that things happen. That's it. It's no one's fault. Mayhaps God planned it, had something else for her to do. Mayhaps God had nothing to do with it, because it's all on Satan. And mayhaps we come from little Martian people and there is no God.

No, I've never asked God why He let something bad happen. I watched my grandmother die of colon cancer. Trust me, you don't ever want to go through that. I cannot imagine what losing a child is like; I don't have any. But I'd think that this girls' parents went through, and are still going through, much, much worse.

As for those who answer mindlessly, God is Love, I live in the Bible Belt South, which is a place, as a recent song says, "With more churches than trees." And yet I do not go to church. Do you know why? Because I do not need some self-righteous, bible-thumping hypocrite telling me what I can and cannot do, and can and cannot THINK, while he's screwing the neighbors' wife. Or, depending upon denomination, the neighbors' son. Those sorts of people do not think for themselves. They follow, and believe, anything and everything they're told by their priest, preacher, padre, minister, whatever you call them. They, and humans in general, do not want to think that our death has no meaning, we would rather ascribe it to a "higher plan." We also do not wish to deal with death close up, so we seek to distance ourselves from it, giving the predigested answer of "Gods' Will" rather than actually trying to find what's going on ourselves.

You have to find your own faith. There is no one true way. If your comfort comes from saying that it's Gods' Will, then that is your comfort. If it comes from saying there is no God, then that is your comfort. If it comes from following the Martians, then that is your comfort. To each his own beliefs, and comforts, and reasons. It is only recently in human history that any god has loved humans. Just look at Greek mythology. Those gods ignored humans for most of the time, and trampled over them the rest. Odin wasn't a particular friend, and Aztec and Mayan gods demanded human sacrifice. In a thousand years, if we haven't destroyed ourselves, whatever religion exists may say the exact opposite, that there is no God, just a great demon waiting to take our souls, or something like that.

Answer 7

To answer your question and this no lie. We are living the last book of the bible. Revelation. After studying the book the signs were clear to me. I don't know when Jesus is returing to get his people, but time is getting closer. Events from the bible in the book of revelation have already happened. 9\11 is one of the events. I don't know if you have heard about the Fall of Bablyon. Bablyon is Iraq and its nieghbors. The fall has begun. Bablyon won't fall completely till the antichrist takes over. That is all I can answer for now. Just don't doubt God and his plans for the earth. Thing will get so bad here and then thats when it will happen. The earth will exsperience 1000 years of War of all nations. All I can say is be ready and stay with God.

Answer 8

Because God didn't make a messed-up world! He made a perfect world and we have destroyed it because of our sin.
You can't buy a new car, get into an accident with it, then take it back and ask why they allowed the car to get crushed. God gave humans dominion over the earth, and we are obviously doing a lousy job.
This should just show us again and again how much we need God to clean up our hearts so we can show His love to the world.

Answer 9

God isn't responsible for the things we or others do. I know it seems strange since God could just zap away any circumstances that would cause such pain; but for some reason; that doesn't happen. I think if God intervened in life for one person; he would have to do it for all persons. That would be strange. I wish I had a great answer for you since I wonder many times why things happened to me that didn't seem to happen to anyone else.

Answer 10

Oh for sure!That is the way to think! GOD should make this Heaven down here so we can get all wrapped up in ourselves and live like GOD'S so when we go to hell we can be that much more devastated,And with this being Heaven who cares to seek GOD after all we enjoy living for right now.Well when right now consists of burning in hell from then on I can imagine we would love to be back here suffering.If you got something against GOD don't be a moron and learn to love,PAIN,AGONY,AND MISERY it will help when you reach your goal.

Answer 11

If the perception of Christianity's God is actual, God might want to be actual impartial more effective than an all-loving god. in case your dad whom in his spare time, created drugs like E and threw them right into a crowded room of ravers, then allow you to recognize that it grow to be a plan to work out if every person might want to take the bait, might want to you label him as A) omnipotent Being of significant information, or B) criminal? followers of God faith continually says that the evils of the international are created by technique of the devil. Who created the devil and helps it to wander the planet and wreck each thing? They argue that in case you've been a verify, might want to you be to blame in case your children dedicate crimes. No as human dad and mom we won't be able to, yet GOD is friggin valuable. With a snap of his eyelash, he can command an complete existence to vanish. All loving? no longer even close.