Why does the loving god give some people free will to kill innocent people?

Question

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Why does the loving god give some people the choice to kill "innocent people" ?

Is it fair to those innocent people?

Jagatkarta,

"How do you know that the "innocents" this life were not the killers in the last life and are now receiving their reward?" ==>

How do you, Jagatkarta, know you were not a killer in the last life ? So, don't say no if someone is going to kill you.

shine_radian,

There won't be an end to killings if killers use karma as an excuse to kill.

Answer 1

God as an Omni-Potent, Omni-Benevolent, and Omni-Present being is only a personification of God. It is the way our small, stunted brains can handle the idea of something larger is to personify it. I am not saying that there is a God.

I am saying that God is most likely just an initial energy and all that follows afterward. He is the clicking track of a roller coaster starting and the continuing ride. God is neither good or bad, here of there, knowing or unknowing. God just is.

So when you ask why God allows us, humans with free will, to do harm unto our neighbors, I answer this…

God does not allow humans to harm each other. God does not have the capacity to grant that kind of permission. It is just what happens. Wyrd. Fate in the broader concept. The roller coaster goes on and it is my chance that one vomits, one laughs, one looses their shoe, or one falls out and dies. It is not fair. But that is just the way it is.

Yes, I know, I did not answer your question entirely as you would probably have liked.
I wanted only to give my perspective on the question.

Answer 2

How do you know they are innocent? Have you been there to witness everything those living beings have done throughout the many, many lives they have lived? How do you know that the "innocents" this life were not the killers in the last life and are now receiving their reward? God's love means He allows us the independence to choose our own path. Forcing anyone to choose would not be love. Can you force your child to love you? Force is the opposite of love. Love is freely giving our devotion. When we choose to love God with sincere devotion, we will experience unlimited bliss. Then we will have no use for the so-called love in this world, which is mostly just business -- I scratch your back if you scratch mine.

Answer 3

We all have free will. We all pay the consequences for our choices. That's called Karma. There is no death. We are not the body. We are Soul. Both the killed and the killer will live another day to straighten out the Karma. That's called reincarnation. The object of the game is to learn to love one another and God.

Answer 4

Nope. God gave EVERYONE free will, it is other humans who take it away. Besides, innocent people die everyday, we live with it. Survival of the fittest. May the best man win. A mother cat may eat her babies if she can't protect them, is that killing innocent cats? Or is it fair? What about abortion? If one man kills another innocent man, that man is dead whether you like it or not. God gave us a choice to live as a good person or no. Alot of people believe that innocent person is with God now, and is really happy. These life and death questions are fickle, and should not be answered for any number of reasons. Wait your turn to find out what Heaven and death is really about.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

Yin and Yang, Good and Evil. Love and Hate
There are two energies that rule everything and everyone. Which energy positive, kind and helpful, or the negative, cruel and murderous, which will rule you ?
This is the war of all wars, been going on since before recorded history. An on going Battle of souls.

Answer 7

We don't have freewill!!!! You depend on the parents you got, the country you were born or raised, your social and economical conditions, your brain situation, the teachers, classmates, neighbors, aunts you were stalk with, so,,,stop saying we have freewill. There's a difference between being able to choose from certain options and actually having freewill to do whatever pleases us. As for killing innocent people...another option...stupid...selfish...blind...but option, after all. As for God, he's dead...it was Nietzche, not me

Answer 8

We all have free will to kill innocent people. We are all essentially innocent. If it were not possible to kill, we would not have free will.
We kill for our souls to understand what love is, by experiencing what it is not. All experience is valid, god is love and makes no judgement.

Answer 9

Man chooses to be evil and to hate.
God does not give them the will to do it, but he did give us a choice, and for every choice there will be a reward or consequence in judgment

Answer 10

christians trying to kill muslims. muslims trying to kill christians. this is what religion gives u. i even hate my own stupid religion.