For the believers: How can you love a God who is all powerful, all knowing and creates a world where millions of innocent babies and children have died from starvation and disease, in tsunamis and hurricanes?
How can you love a mass murderer (even if you say he didn't kill them, he's guilty of complicity for being all powerful and not stopping it).
2006-08-26 06:03:14 · 9 answers · asked by the last ninja 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What exactly did the little babies do to deserve God's wrath Stephen J?
God's righteous indignation at sinners is a pathetic justification for baby-killing.
2006-08-26 06:15:37 · update #1
If God is all knowing that means God knows everything. Not kind of knows or can predict it. God knows it...100%. It is written in stone. If I can't make a choice that will change what happens tomorrow, then I'm ruled by fate. If I am ruled by fate, I don't have freewill.
Therefore, if God is all knowing I cannot have freewill. How is it possible for God to have given us freewill if God is all knowing?
The best and most logical answer is that we do have freewill, it's just that God knows all the decisions that we will make before we make them. It doesn't mean we don't make choices it's just that God has known what they were going to be before God created the universe.
Here is the problem with that, if that is true it means that God knew exactly who was going to hell long before they were to be sent there, and long before God created the universe. If I go to hell, I go to hell because God created me knowing I would. If God truly loved me or cared about me then why would God create me just to send me to hell?
There could be only a few possible answers; one, God does not care at all; two, God doesn't know the future; and three, nobody will ever go to hell
If any one of these answers are correct, then God does not truly love me. If any religion proclaims that God does truly love me while at the same time threatening me with eternal damnation in hell for something that God knew I was going to do when God create me then that religion is based on a lie.
By the way of the three possible answers, I choose no one will ever go to hell. I am an agnostic theist. I affirm an inability to know about the non existence of a deity or deities and claim this inability leads me to a belief in a catagory of myth that includes soul and spirit.
2006-08-26 06:11:44 · answer #1 · answered by H.I. of the H.I. 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's called sin, and it separates us from God's protection. If you want to get rid of it, follow Christ. Then you'll have forgiveness. God isn't a mass murderer, ppl murder. God gives them that choice. Why doesn't He stop it? I don't know, I'm a little surprised God didn't destroy the Earth the moment Adam and Eve sinned, but He evidently decided that it was worth keeping around, bc He loves us that much, even the ppl doing evil, He loves them anyway. I trust that God knows what He's doing and has a plan.
By the way, the only way God could stop evil forever, is by killing all of us or removing free will. He won't remove free will, however, since He wants a real relationship with us and we need free will for that to happen.
2006-08-26 13:12:11 · answer #2 · answered by STEPHEN J 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
Maybe this will help you but you shouldn't ask these kinds of questions unless your open minded to the anwers.
It's atleast possible that God is wise enough to forsee that we need some pain for reasons which we may not understand but which he forsees as being necessary to some eventual good. Therefore, he's not being evil by allowing that pain to exist.
Good luck in finding your faith
2006-08-26 13:15:29 · answer #3 · answered by cat s 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
God doesnt kill people you kill people by dong the wrong things.
such as
1-allowing guns and others to have guns
people kill people not guns
2-destroying the earth by drilling oil causes mass earthquakes and volcanoes, as you shall see more soon and people did this to get rich, not God, he needs not money
3-genocide by Hitler was done by man, not God
so if you will see the point when you tear up and destroy the earth then you will reap what you sew. When you let someone control your mind, body and land then you will reap what they sew.
2006-08-26 14:06:15 · answer #4 · answered by eg_ansel 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is a differnce between complicity, and Adam and Eve eating the apple. It is called the Fall, but thankfully, God redems those who reach out for Him.
2006-08-26 13:12:52 · answer #5 · answered by engineer 86 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well seeing as they'd marry a born-again murderer I'm quite sure they're capable of anything.
2006-08-26 13:09:52 · answer #6 · answered by Kirtap 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Good point of view
2006-08-26 13:09:36 · answer #7 · answered by a_ebnlhaitham 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF MY HEART AND SOUL AND MIND. GOD KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING. WE MUST HAVE FAITH IN HIM.
2006-08-26 13:08:33 · answer #8 · answered by ms.melancholy 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
we are many!
people are many!
Apollo!
2006-08-26 13:07:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋