As much as I'd like to believe there is a God, I keep going back to the same thought process.......If the was a God why is the world in the mess it's in? A fair question and without an answer. Maybe there is no God. Maybe we're here just by chance.
2006-09-05 17:57:46
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answered by The Mick "7" 7
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You are equating pain with punishment and death with something bad. God made the world the best He could. In it, for reasons we don't know now, but can sometimes get a glimpse of, there is pain. Pain makes us grow. So here we see, as St. Paul said"Throough a glass darkly; but there, clearly". When we join God in heaven, we will see all the reasons we couldn't see here and we'll say aha... I get it.
If we all got what we wanted here, we would learn nothing.I have prayed for some things that I didn't get, and later I was all too glad my prayer didn't have a positive answer. God is sad at our suffering and He helps us with it. But He allows us to learn.
2006-09-06 21:57:16
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answered by a_phantoms_rose 7
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Without mountains we would never learn to climb. Without hard stuff we would never learn. The suffering of humanity is brought on by greed. there are greedy people but there are also angels among us who make a difference everyday, like, Mother Teresa. That is where the suffering stops, not by greed or the pruit of fame, but the pursuit of humanity and humility which can become scarce in this world.
2006-09-09 14:09:30
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answered by marfaud 2
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I believe God is the creator. He made the planets, the universe, people and everything else. God made us and now we are on our own. God does not get involved in our lives, I do not believe that.
I do believe that people control their own destinies to a great extent. Its our job, not God's to expand humankind or the way we behave as a collective peoples.
There are energies out there called Orisa, or you can even say Catholic Saints or even natural energies that we can tap into to help us improve our lives and obtain things, etc. These energies are used for these purposes. God himself is on a higher level. God does not care if you get a raise. But you may give honey to Osun for example and obtain human goals like that. I hope this information is helpful to you.
2006-09-08 16:27:50
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answered by TG Special 5
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You are wrestling with good questions. Excellent. Here are some answers.
a) The question depends on whether or not you in a relationship with God.
b) If you are not, then the passing of pain is a desperate call from God...upping the ante so to speak...for you/us/humanity to wake up.
c) If we are in a relationship to God, then it draws us ever closer to God who is so merciful that we are not all KFChicken by now.
2006-09-02 16:55:48
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answered by Anonymous
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Does god do things because he's benevolent? If yes, then what he wills is because he's right. but...
If he's benevolent, how could he allow 6 million of his chosen people to be incinerated by Hitler, or why did he allow Truman to vaporize 200,000 Japanese men, women and children or Stalin to kill 30m Christians? If he was also omnipotent AND benevolent, then these events could not have happened.
If you counter that man's "free will" caused those events to happen, so don't blame God, then can it be said God is not omnipotent AND benevolent, because he allowed man's free will to reign?
And further, the mere existence of evil in the world makes the existence of a benign god impossible: if god were omnipotent, he could eliminate evil and if he were benign, he would want to do so...another way of saying this:
If god is able to prevent evil but is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not benevolent.
If god is willing to prevent evil but is not able to prevent evil, then he is not omnipotent.
Evil is either in occordance with god's intention or contrary to it. Thus, either god cannot prevent evil or he does not want to prevent evil.
2006-09-02 18:25:06
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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The absence in today's society of Sin-eaters.
A SIN-EATER, is a person who for trifling payment was believed to take upon himself, by means of food and drink, the sins of a deceased person. The custom was once common in many parts of England and in the highlands of Scotland, and survived until recent years in Wales and the counties of Shropshire and Herefordshire. Usually each village had its official sin-eater to whom notice was given as soon as a death occurred. He at once went to the house, and there, a stool being brought, he sat down in front of the door. A groat, a crust of bread and a bowl of ale were handed him, and after he had eaten and drunk he rose and pronounced the ease and rest of the dead person, for whom he thus pawned his own soul. The earlier form seems to have been more realistic, the sin-eater being taken into the death-chamber, and, a piece of bread and possibly cheese having been placed on the breast of the corpse by a relative, usually a woman, it was afterwards handed to the sin-eater, who ate it in the presence of the dead. He was then handed his fee, and at once hustled and thrust out of the house amid execrations, and a shower of sticks, cinders or whatever Other missiles were handy. The custom of sin-eating is generally supposed to be derived from the scapegoat (q.v.) in Leviticus xvi. 21, 22. A symbolic survival of it was witnessed as recently as 1893 at Market Drayton, Shropshire. After a preliminary service had been held over the coffin in the house, a woman poured out a glass of wine for each bearer and handed it to him across the coffin with a "funeral biscuit." In Upper Bavaria sin-eating still survives: a corpse cake is placed on the breast of the dead and then eaten by the nearest relative, while in the Balkan peninsula a small bread image of the deceased is made and eaten by the survivors of the family. The Dutch doed-koecks or "dead-cakes," marked with the initials of the deceased, introduced into America in the 17th century, were long given to the attendants at funerals in old New York. The "burial-cakes" which are still made in parts of rural England, for example Lincolnshire and Cumberland, are almost certainly a relic of sin-eating.
2006-09-09 02:11:41
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answer #7
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answered by peterwayne007 2
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God can't change the sinning because if he did the world would be perfect. if the world is perfect we'd never learn anything. God made the world the way it is supposed to be.
2006-09-09 12:07:29
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answered by ???????????????????????????????? 1
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God grew to develop into guy to pay the debt of guy's sin as required via His own regulation. Leviticus 25:25 says that if a guy could fall into debt and can't pay off it, his next of family could desire to attain this. guy can't pay for his own sins using fact he's a sinner. the only suited sacrifice grew to become into given via Jesus of Nazareth.
2016-10-01 05:54:10
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answered by ? 4
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God see humans suffer the pain because when we do suffer it draws us closer to him and let us consentrate more on him and not so much on the pain that we are feeling
2006-09-02 16:21:31
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answered by Cops 3
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