Is God Just? If so...?

Question

If so, why are some born rich and some born poor. Why are some born handicapped and some as super-models?

Answer 1

God is just. Most os the main religions affirm that.

If you are a Christian or a Muslim, you cant rationalize this one because what is avaiable is one life, one god, one chance and eternal salvation or eternal damnation after that. Rather cruel and makes God look unjust.

In the eastern religions like Hinduism, Buddhism the soul gets created and goes through a process of evolution until it reaches the one goal salvation. An interesting point to be noted here is that all souls get eventually liberated in these religions - and none is eternally damned.

And since reincarnatin is based on karma - the result of ones own good and bad deeds, one can easily explain disparities one sees in the world around. Those suffering today are suffering because of some bad deeds done in a previous lifetime. This is the only damnation the wicked need to face, and it also allows them a chance to reform and turn to the good side eventually.

In summary, with reincarnation and eventual salvation, eastern religions show that God is always just!

The western religions, without reincarnation, come a little short of proving this claim that God is just, although their faith is essentially that God is just as well.

Chose the path that suits better for your conscience and you should be fine. Remember that your choice may not necesaary be that of someone else's but learnt to respect the choices everyone makes here on earth to make their way through life.

Answer 2

Life is a test. Everyone is given a different situation than the other and tested. If you have more money, you will be MUCH more accountable for it on the day of judgement than those who are poor. If you are healthy, you will be MORE accountable for your body and what you did with it in life than those handicapped. God is NOT unjust. He is just testing you for you to see where you will end up. Paradise or Fire.

Answer 3

From The Urantia Book:

3:5.5 The uncertainties of life and the vicissitudes of existence do not in any manner contradict the concept of the universal sovereignty of God. All evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities. Consider the following:

3:5.6 1. Is courage -- strength of character -- desirable? Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.

3:5.7 2. Is altruism -- service of one's fellows -- desirable? Then must life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality.

3:5.8 3. Is hope -- the grandeur of trust -- desirable? Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties.

3:5.9 4. Is faith -- the supreme assertion of human thought -- desirable? Then must the mind of man find itself in that troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe.

3:5.10 5. Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable? Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible.

3:5.11 6. Is idealism -- the approaching concept of the divine -- desirable? Then must man struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things.

3:5.12 7. Is loyalty -- devotion to highest duty -- desirable? Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default.

3:5.13 8. Is unselfishness -- the spirit of self-forgetfulness -- desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. Man could not dynamically choose the divine life if there were no self-life to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast.

3:5.14 9. Is pleasure -- the satisfaction of happiness -- desirable? Then must man live in a world where the alternative of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities.

3:5.15 Throughout the universe, every unit is regarded as a part of the whole. Survival of the part is dependent on co-operation with the plan and purpose of the whole, the wholehearted desire and perfect willingness to do the Father's divine will. The only evolutionary world without error (the possibility of unwise judgment) would be a world without free intelligence. In the Havona universe there are a billion perfect worlds with their perfect inhabitants, but evolving man must be fallible if he is to be free. Free and inexperienced intelligence cannot possibly at first be uniformly wise. The possibility of mistaken judgment (evil) becomes sin only when the human will consciously endorses and knowingly embraces a deliberate immoral judgment.

Answer 4

Adam is the one you should blame, not God.

Adam was handed dominion over this place, and he took it out of God's hands, and Satan usurped it.

Satan is the "The prince of this World" (John 12:31). He's calling the shots. Don't blame God.. God loves you and has gone to the trouble to give you a book to show you how to be healthy, happy and wise. He gave his only begotten son so you can live throughout the ages to come.

And you sit there and attribute the work of Satan to God.

You ingrate!

Give credit where credit is due and crack the book from time to time to find out what the score really is.

Answer 5

One of the main tenents of the mainstream faiths of the "book" (Islam, Christianity, and Judiasm) is that God HAS to be just. But as you point out, there are suffering and inequalities that make a just God pretty impossible.

Answer 6

This basic question cannot be explained or understood without understanding oneself as a soul which incarnate again and again according to the law of Karma.God is always Just.We reap what we bow.

Answer 7

Do not look upon these things in partiality. No one is greater than our Father in heaven. Maybe this is your test of faith. Read James!

Answer 8

For each to learn something from the other and overcome obstacles...Either way it's all about learning and getting along with people.

Answer 9

You are assuming that wealth is equal with justice--and you are also assuming that there is something better about wealth.

You are wrong in these assumptions.

Answer 10

because divine justicxe is not the same as your human concept of what seems to be fair and just.