Is he not responsible for AIDS/HIV, tsunamis, volcanoes, Alf, malaria, mosuitoes, the NY Yankees, cocaine, eathquakes, famine, the plague, and any other bad thing?
2006-09-08 09:26:49 · 15 answers · asked by bc_munkee 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What's wrong with that?
2006-09-08 09:32:40 · answer #1 · answered by mar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say that ultimately He is in control of all of those things. This is a tough subject, that of the line between human responsibility and God's Sovereignty. But from the accounts of Job and other places we see that God is in control of these things...even the NY Yankees and Alf.
Such passages supporting this idea are:
"If a calamity occurs in a city has not the LORD done it?" (Amos 3:6)
"Shall we indeed accept good from God and not accept adversity?" (Job 2:10)
The idea that God is the cause of all the good things and Satan the cause of the bad borders dangerously close to dualism, which the Bible does not support.
2006-09-08 16:46:07 · answer #2 · answered by ertofu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason people who complain about him never seem to give Him credit for the good things like flowers, the love of a spouse, a starlit night, Monday Night Football, and all you can eat buffets. He made those things as well.
As for the bad things in life, the main reason is that Christians see them as a consequence of Man turning away from God and by that action tainting all of existence with sin. God did not make all the things you mentioned per se, they are a consequence of our actions. God cannot force Man to love Him. Love that is forced is not love. Man has to come to God of his own accord.
2006-09-08 16:35:12 · answer #3 · answered by Tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bc_munkee,
I'm not a fundie. I give God credit. Hey, it's like this: You can go your own way and worry about dying. I don't have to. It's your choice.
"You have already made the choice, you just have to understand it."
-- The Oracle, The Matrix Reloaded
2006-09-08 16:29:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because god is good and the devil is bad. Because god causes good things and the devil causes bad things. Because they like things in neat little packages. Because it is easy to think that way. Because as far as religion goes xtianity is the equivalent of pre-school....deep as a teaspoon and a bad imitation of older pagan beliefs.
2006-09-08 16:36:19 · answer #5 · answered by Medusa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i give credit for all these things to G-d, and i consider them good and necessary. i think the world would be in a far worse state and probably already destroyed and barren if these things did NOT exist.
we have to try and think from the point of view of G-d, not humans. we hate these things because we fear death, we think no good can come of death. but G-d in his wisdom knows that death is necessary to allow for the continuation of life, and that by allowing for what we consider to be senseless death he is actually acting according to his nature of mercy and goodness.
besides, upon death we reunite with G-d. this is no punishment or evil, and so why would G-d consider causing death to be evil?
2006-09-08 16:34:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh no - see all that falls under God's formal homosexual love partner Satan. But after they broke up, God sent him to hell and now he gets blamed for everything. Sort of like how your mom talks about your Dad Ralph.
2006-09-08 16:28:58 · answer #7 · answered by rab2344 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Besides natural disasters, God is not responsible for that stuff. Human sin and errors caused all those other things.
2006-09-08 16:30:57 · answer #8 · answered by Coco 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hey, what's wrong with Alf?
2006-09-08 16:28:11 · answer #9 · answered by Allison L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a bolt of lightning hits yourass, I would say its God.
2006-09-08 16:30:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prejudice I guess.
2006-09-08 16:32:03 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋