I don't "get it" I belive in God but what's up with all the wars, crime, sickness and innocent people dieing?????
2006-10-03 04:29:32 · 16 answers · asked by Barrierbuster 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good question, tough answer.
For purpose of this conversation, we are going to acknowledge the Christian faith as fact. It just make things easier. Afterwords, believe what ever you want to.
God gave humans two things: Path of Salvation and Free Will.
It all starts with free will. God gave everyone the ability to act as they chose. regardless of right or wrong, they can do what they please. Now, since this is important to salvation, free will can't be altered by God. Yes, even he has rules He must follow in order for the plan to work.
Now, the down side is that there are bad (or just foolish) people who do the wrong things. If God stepped in at every error or evil deed, that would deny us the free will so needed for our salvation.
So, in short, he has to let 'bad things' happen, but cause if he didn't, you couldn't be saved. Since the path of salvation is based on choice, not circumstance.
Okay, now you may believe what you want - best wishes.
2006-10-03 04:45:21 · answer #1 · answered by Odindmar 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, no one knows for sure if there is a god, no matter what they say .. unless they are dead, and then they know for sure.. but no one living can honestly say they have been contacted by people from the dead and the dead clearly stated "I am with god right now".. i would not believe a story if someone said that to me anyway lol... as for the bad things.. crap happens.. and anywhere you go there are bad people and there are good people. Sickness is a form of genetic imperfection.. we are working on that. The crime and innocent people dying, etc.. again goes with the good and the bad.
2006-10-03 04:47:25 · answer #2 · answered by Vita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God really exists. God never allow any bad things to happen or recently happening or already happened.
God instructed us to follow right path and don't do any bad thing to other or ourself.
The root causes of now happening are need to blame ourself.If everybody comes to follow the right path which can lead us a good heaven in this world and afterlife everyone can achieve the Heaven promised by God.
2006-10-03 04:40:35 · answer #3 · answered by Hidhaya 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, firstly I can tell you that yes there is a God. But then again, this is coming from me. There is nothing I or anyone can ever tell you or show that would make you believe or disbelieve. Your faith is within you only.
As far as answering why He allows bad things to happen, well that one isn't so simple. The only thing that I have for that would be to look at Adam and Eve, the first humans He created. God had the power to stop them from biting the apple and ruining humanity but he didn't. He wanted to preserve their free will. He knew that taking away our free will-our ability to choose strips away what it is to be human.
So why does God allow these things to happen to us? Well, we do these things to ourselves. People hurt people. We die because it is part of life. Hitler was not acting on belief. He was insane. Wars happen because people have not yet learned what wars can do. God can save us and He will.. but first we must save ourselves..
2006-10-03 04:37:13 · answer #4 · answered by KIm Z 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't pass the buck.
God gave mankind the freedom of choice and it is well within mankind's power to end wars, crime, sickness and the deaths of innocent people caused by mankind. These things are your responsibility and your fault, not God's.
"I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings." - Albert Einstein
2006-10-03 04:38:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My God is an awesome God but, he isn't a dictator. He gives men brain & allows them to make choices. Just like he gave Adam & Eve instructions in the garden but allowed them to make a choice to eat or not eat out of the tree of good and evil, he is still the same God today and forever. Even for your own salvation, you know he came down, left his throne and chose to die for our sins but, still he say "if" you believe in him, you should not perish but, have everlasting life". Keyword "if" is a choice right there. So, God allows men to make choices, Men however, choose to do evil with that priviledge.
2006-10-03 04:38:55 · answer #6 · answered by Tasha 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do people allow these things to happen? Everything you mention are acts of human beings, not acts of God.
Imagine if we spent as much on conquering disease and poverty as we do on war. Would we even have diseases? (The world spends more on war and military than on everything else combined!)
It is the "leaders" of the world that allow or commit these things. The answer is to change the "leaders" to people that truly follow God rather than those that take His name in vane.
2006-10-03 04:37:03 · answer #7 · answered by my_iq_135 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think there are lessons to be learned, everything happens for a reason, and Gods plan is sometimes bigger than what the human brain can grasp and comprehend. Everything you're seeing today is prophecy being fulfilled, and it says, *all these things MUST happen.* wars, rumors of wars, disease and plagues, decline in morality, natural disasters ect...I think God's showing us what He can do if we don't stop hating and killing...
2006-10-03 04:42:20 · answer #8 · answered by marquita 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and yes. God has a plan, even if he thought you needed to know about it odds are you wouldn't understand it. It invovles a lot of busses packed with young children exploding and waves of good people dying in natural disasters and wicked men becomming extremely wealthy and living to a ripe old age.
2006-10-03 04:34:20 · answer #9 · answered by W0LF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's not God, those are people making choices. We're all made free moral agents, free to choose anyway we want. Unfortunately, people refuse to accept the Lord and until they do, they're constantly living in a condemned state of existence, constantly under the bondages of sin. You're going to see much worse before long.
2006-10-03 04:34:13 · answer #10 · answered by Gail R 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋