let the world suffer so much .children especially.what have they done to suffer or die at a young age?no bible answers please i do not believe in the bible.
2006-09-20 01:39:07 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
good question.. can't wait for the dumb answers
2006-09-20 01:42:06 · answer #1 · answered by psychstudent 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Why are millions of children born into this world only to suffer and die? I don't know. I am a christian, but I have weak faith because of these unanswerable questions. But if God does exist, then there must be a reason, no matter how unfathomable it is to us humans. I wish I had an answer. Maybe when we die, God will tell us, and we will all finally be
at peace with our creator.
2006-09-20 08:54:09 · answer #2 · answered by WHITE TRASH ARMENIAN 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
An intelligent or perceptive and eternal energy is at the source of the Cosmos; the Cosmos is everyone and everything that ever existed. The Cosmos is beyond human ability to comprehend, but it makes itself known through the design of natural laws, including karma, which govern the universe. This is the only true and real God, of which we are each an integral part. It is nonjudgmental and nonintervening, but it is an eternally progressive energy, and we evolve and gain wisdom through interaction with its natural laws.
Humans have free will - and every person alive made the choice to become incarnate and to develop and grow as a separate human being - without divine intervention.
When we reach a point in our experiences when we can recognize what "God" really is, and understand its presence in everything and everyone (including ourselves) -- when we can understand the profound responsibility we collectively have for one another and the world in which we live -- then we can begin to change the world. We're a long way from that, however, and as long as we "blame" 'God' or 'Satan' for the things for which we ourselves are responsible, and as long as fools believe in fairy tale bible stories, humanity remains in its infancy.
2006-09-20 08:49:28 · answer #3 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
no Bible hey. well it is like this god created a environment that ran itself on certain rules applied everywhere like gravity, time etc. He also gave man the ability to understand all these interaction. Mistakenly he thought since man had brains he would use them. Seems like he would and yet all those people died in the sunami while some tribs who did use their brains for things other than profit, lost no tribal members. It has to do with free will, they sorta chose to die, by the way they lived.
2006-09-20 08:50:54 · answer #4 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
this is only my personal belief so take it with a grain of salt...i think that the reason they die is b/c once someone finds outs the meaning of life, its thier time...and as odd as may seem, i feel that some children can stumble upon it in thier niave innocence....as for the suffering...that is created by others...goes with the whole free will thing i suppose....SIDE NOTE: i am actually wiccan
2006-09-20 08:42:23 · answer #5 · answered by Steven D 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We need also to recognize that our very minds were created by God. We can only use these minds to the extent that He allows, and it is, therefore, utterly presumptuous for us to use them to question Him and His motives.
"Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (Genesis 18:25).
"Shall the thing formed say to Him that formed it, why hast Thou made me thus?" (Romans 9:20).
We ourselves do not establish the standards of what is right. Only the Creator of all reality can do that. We need to settle it, in our minds and hearts, whether we understand it or not, that whatever God does is, by definition, right.
The world is now under God's Curse (Genesis 3:17) because of man's rebellion against God's Word.
This "bondage of corruption," with the "whole world groaning and travailing together in pain" (Romans 8:21, 22), is universal, affecting all men and women and children everywhere. God did not create the world this way, and one day will set all things right again. In that day, "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain" (Revelation 21:4).
The sufferings of unsaved men are often used by the Holy Spirit to cause them to realize their needs of salvation and to turn to Christ in repentance and faith. The sufferings of Christians should always be the means of developing a stronger dependence on God and a more Christ-like character, if they are properly "exercised thereby" (Hebrews 12:11).
Thus, God is loving and merciful even when, "for the present," He allows trials and sufferings to come in our lives.
Since "all have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23), there is no one who has the right to freedom from God's wrath on the basis of his own innocence.
2006-09-20 08:44:13 · answer #6 · answered by heresyhunter@sbcglobal.net 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
You are assuming that trials and suffering are some kind of punishment. They're not. By that same logic, a weight-lifter would see his weights as enemies. But that is silly. A weight-lifter uses weights to make him stronger. God lets us go through trials and suffering to make us stronger. You are thinking of God and man in an entirely mortal, short-term way. Look at it from an eternal perspective and see the purpose of this life.
2006-09-20 08:52:05 · answer #7 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Don't pass the buck. God gave mankind freedom of choice and does not interfere. God does not let the world suffer. Mankind lets the world suffer when it is entirely in its power to stop it. In other words, God is not responsible for the World's suffering, you are. What have you done about it lately?
2006-09-20 08:46:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Hi!
The first one to answer is right but I will show you this...
Human beings inately have a sense of JUSTICE...they arrest criminals, give speed fines, take to court etc.
Now in our justice system, we see a need to take someone's life if he has taken another's...what about his children?Will they not starve like those in Ethiopia and the likes? They will.
You see,Justice is necessary but its nature is that "IT WILL AFFECT THE LOVED ONES OF THE OFFENDER...
Now God cannot ignore His OFFICE of a righteous JUDGE where He exercises judgement to the offenders...unfortunately, those around the offenders will be AFFECTED when JUSTICE is exercised...Every sin has to be paid for...that is why Jesus Christ died on the cross, so that the offenders would not have to pay for their wrongs...
If God ignored this office, we would call Him UNRIGHTEOUS and unfair!
Another way to look at it is this way...when children die, THEY GO TO HEAVEN for a safer peaceful place!But the OLDER ones are likely to repent when they see DEATH FACING THEM...
Greater pain is coming after DEATH...this suffering on earth is nothing compared to the earth-shuttering eternal torment of hell.
Hug!
2006-09-20 09:02:41 · answer #9 · answered by Hope Dollar 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
This is one of those subjects where the theists do the old doublethink (i.e. professing to believe two contradictory things simultaneously). They claim there is a god and he/she/it is all-knowing and he/she/it sometimes intervenes in people's lives. But then they give god credit for anything good but do not blame god for things that go bad. But if god is all-knowing and all-powerful and chooses not to intervene to prevent bad things from happening then how is he/she/it not to blame?
I saw a comedian talking about athletes thanking god when they win and he said just once he'd like to see the losers blame god for their loss ... "we were winning and then god made me fumble". Exactly!
Crediting god with success and yourself with failures is harmful because it distorts the relationship between cause and effect. If you want to be humble about your successes thank the envirnment that made it possible for you to succeed, the training you received that prepared you for success, those who assisted you, or even "luck" but assuming that god decided helping you succeed when there are so many other problems to be dealt with seems to me to be not humility but rather the height of arrogance.
2006-09-20 08:53:30 · answer #10 · answered by frugernity 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A big part of the life experience is to suffer. The world is not good or bad, it just is.
2006-09-20 08:42:48 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋