how can ANYONE say "It was God's will" when horrendous things happen like little Amish kids getting lined up against a blackboard and executed? That's what their parents are saying. I hear it all the time, you know, people get killed by a drunk drivers and their families say "God wanted him" or "It was his time". How is that comforting? And if God has the power to stop something like that happening, why doesn't he do it? It baffles me..
2006-10-03 22:35:37 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So, Yeusmarn, does that mean God intended for those kids to die at such a young age? Or, Rodger, that if they hadn't died, they might have grown up to be horrible people? Or, Prophecy +, that it may have been somehow beneficial for them to have been shot point blank in the head because something REALLY bad may have happened to them otherwise? I'm not having a go at you personally, it just reaffirms my thought that religion is seriously screwed up if it can be used to justify something as horrific as that.
2006-10-03 23:31:11 · update #1
It's a way for people to take the next step towards moving on. People only say that to themselves or each other to help deal with a terrible tragedy. It's not the best way to heal, and if there is a god, god clearly has nothing to do with it. It's a simple way for people who are traumatized to deal with their shock and grief.
2006-10-03 22:48:15 · answer #1 · answered by Wonder Weirdo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All life is in God's hands. You don't know what those little girls could have been being spared from in the future. God knows the future, there are scriptures that teach plainly not to question such things because God knows what each day holds, what if those girls were going to face being raped each day by a relative for 10 years and God in His mercy and grace decided to spare them the physical and physchological pain by bringing them home early? I'll trust Him and His pure motives and His knowledge of the future vs Man's any day.
Sweety we aren't justifying murder, just trying to give you some sense of why God allows things such as this to happen.......And your not listening very well and yes you are having a go at us...that's quite obvious. God doesn't have to justify Himself to you, for crying out loud He could take your very breath from you at this moment.
2006-10-04 06:07:40 · answer #2 · answered by Prophecy+History=TRUTH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is a very good question. what is the degree of Divine intervention (if He really intervene!)?
well, i think that God has a will and it is not his will that the children be killed or the evil prevails in some parts of this world, i think God's will was spoken through the religions, i mean He said what he wanted to say, He answered the human bewildered questions and emphasized on what is right and what is wrong, the things that exist in every human being and called consciousness. consciousness, i believe, has an origin, and this origin is God Himself. Good deeds are accomplished through the hearts and will of some good people (despite of the religions, because of this light God gave us like a birthmark; consiousness, and i believe that this explain (to me at least) why is the good deeds are done by human beings regardless of their religion or anything else)
so, my point is this; may be God sometimes watches and sometimes intervene. The distinct decision remains His will that will remain a mystery to us.
2006-10-04 06:02:07 · answer #3 · answered by Kalooka 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God were to prevent such events it would take away the free will of the one who is sinning against Him. God loves us so much that He will not force us to love and obey Him. He wants our love to be genuine. Also, as far as God is concerned, the murdering of the Amish children in Pennsylvania is no worse than you or I telling a lie or taking a really nice pen from the bank. In other words, there is no such thing as a "big" or "little" sin. We all need the forgiveness of God to absolve our sins.
2006-10-04 05:48:06 · answer #4 · answered by Celestian Vega 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consider the child that dies when he is little. Why should we curse God for such a thing? It is God that shall bring us again to the child. And how can we say whether had this child lived, he or she would not have been the killer at the blackboard? I have found that we can in no wise judge God. I suggest you cease from doing so.
2006-10-04 05:47:35 · answer #5 · answered by Rodger G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is called brainwashing and the church is a master at it.
when something good happens it is gods will. when something bad happens he works in mysterious ways.
fact is god does not make good or bad things happen because god promised to never again take a direct hand in the path of man.
I am a religious man. an ordained minister actually. (Celtic Pagan) people need to realise that god, or the gods in my case do not cause every little situation that happens to us. men have free will. and some men decide to use this free will to cause harm to others. god did not do these things, a sick man did.
i do however agree with you that it is sad when parents will accept the death of a child simply as "GODS WILL" makes you wonder what else they would brush off or be open to as part of gods will.
2006-10-04 05:48:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humans were created differently from other creatures. Humans were designed with free-will, even unlike Angels who solely obey god's command 24/7. Humans have the choice to decide, rationalize and heed or conversely disregard.
In this sense, God has the foresight property to know the outcome of each of our choice. God bestows us with a few things, like the date of birth, our bounty on earth and our day of death. How we get from point A to point B is entirely up to us.
God is watching, for surely man's true behaviour will only be seen when he thinks no one is watching. God is like the teacher who left class, only to peek from a corner to see who has been behaving and who has been naughty while he's away.
In the end, when judgment day arrives, justice prevails. For those who thinks they can get away from shooting young children by commiting suicide, then i can almost hear them hollering now at the state they are in on the other side.
2006-10-04 05:45:51 · answer #7 · answered by Happy me 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You intuitively understand that this system cannot exist in reality. But it is ego that wonders such things, because ego wants to keep you in the dark. Know that in truth nothing has ever happened to cause any harm to God's creations. There is no harm in God, only peace; we are part of Him. we dream this world as part of our fear that we had separated from Him, but it is only a dream. Ask for clarity and direction. The answers will come.
2006-10-04 06:21:20 · answer #8 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Quran syas that if God did fix things, He would fix them
RIGHT. And there would be a whole lot of sorry SO and SOs
looking at Hell. So we better be glad He don't fix them yet, and
we stil got some time to straighten up.
Native teachings say there is a force building up in the earth
called the FEAR. Full of evil spiritual energies we have created and it is getting BIGGER, causing people to SNAP.
Isaiah 24:18 KJV.
2006-10-04 05:47:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They say it's God's will because they are sorely misinformed. God's will has nothing to do with it. It is MAN's free will that God GAVE MAN that has everything to do with it. God is definitely not pleased, but saddened to watch this idiotic sick stuff play out down here. It all boils down to "original sin" when Eve decided to exercise HER free will and eat the forbidden fruit. We've been paying for it ever since. When Jesus returns, He says there will be a new heaven and a new earth....meaning it will be just as He intended it from the beginning...perfect. No crime. No evil.
2006-10-04 05:42:17 · answer #10 · answered by Jan O 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋