Can "free will" explain that one?
2006-10-09 09:59:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
And an omnipotent God couldn't have designed a world without earthquakes? Or smallpox? Or any other "natural" (as opposed to moral) evils?
2006-10-09 10:07:25 · update #1
"Free will" refers to our ability to make our own choices in life. For example, raising a family near an epicenter. ---...or...building an entire city below sea level, and when it floods from a hurricane, rebuilding it in the EXACT SAME SPOT. (New Orleans...how can we be so dumb?)
God allows children to get crushed in earthquakes because God allows the same laws of physics to exist that have existed since existence. We must make good choices to succeed within the rules set out for us. To blame God solves nothing, nor proves anything.
In response to your additional details:
In otherwords, could God have created a world without obstacles and tragedy?
Perhaps. But He didn't. Every religion has it's own way of explaining this. My way is based on what I see. Evolution is essentially Progress through Struggle. Without struggle, we do not advance. The universe has been set up this way, and the only escape from struggle is death. So life and humanity are reluctantly bonded with struggle and tragedy.
(as a painful example: Populations who choose not to live by epicenters or below sea level ...populations who can invent vaccines, will survive to face new struggles)
2006-10-09 10:09:03 · answer #1 · answered by jeffo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, even for a non-religious like me, this is quite an easy one.
Your god, any god will do, either created, or has to obey, natural laws. If you build a planet the size of the earth, with an iron core, it will liquefy, releasing heat. That heat will cause convection currents, therefore driving plate tectonics. The only way round it is to make the planet a different size, or use different materials. However, if you do that, it will not support life.
Free will comes in to it because people know about earthquakes and volcanoes (look at California), but still choose to live there.
Come on, if you want to trap a religio, I'm afraid you will have to try much harder than that.
Additional
But, as you see, they can never come up with a rational arguement, because they have been brainwashed.
2006-10-09 10:05:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I cannot explain this very well. We do live in a fallen world with much tragedy and sorrow. God does not always spare us this. He is love but He is also a just God and He sees the big picture, we only see in part. I just have to trust that He is in control, no matter what the outcome.
2006-10-09 10:02:53 · answer #3 · answered by jworks79604 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is why. People are so confused. God is all love BUT the thing is he makes everyone make thier own decisions... INNOCENT people suffer because of our sin For the things we do wrong GOD will NEVER tell anyone what to do I was molested I belive in God and His love. If WE WANT ALL THIS TO STOP we need to come to the Lord But people do not listen PEOPLE DO NOT WANT TO! And that is why ALL THIS HAPPENS BECUASE PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THE TRUE GOD!
JUST BELIVE IN HIM! DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS CRUEL WORLD.. JUST BE ON GODS SIDE! NOW THAT I TRUST GOD SO MANY THINGS HAVE GONE RIGHT IN MY LIFE!
2006-10-09 10:05:36 · answer #4 · answered by x0hEEE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not god. It's our Earth Mother. Given what we've been doing to Her, is it any wonder we've been getting massive hurricanes like Katrina let alone earthquakes that take life?
2006-10-09 10:02:34 · answer #5 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No such thing as free will, yet we are free moral agents
Why do humans allow Children be crushed in earthquakes.
2006-10-09 10:01:54 · answer #6 · answered by Darriel Hagans 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The consequences of Adam's sin reverberate throughout human history, and will continue to do so, until the end of time.
No one will die in the next age, when God promises to restore all things.
2006-10-09 10:44:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does decide weather someone dies or not though he gives everyone a chance to live. Though technically only their body dies their souls remain forever. There's nothing fair about who lives and dies. Hey if its your time to fly to the big puffy clouds its your time. So make best time out of your life.
2006-10-09 10:05:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Talk to me when your number comes up. Bad call bleeding heart. Youse a stone hippakrit!
2006-10-09 10:01:26 · answer #9 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know...why did atheist leaders kill and torture 20 million of their own countrymen? Why do people do evil things?
Same question-type, right back at you...do you think that that's fair?
2006-10-09 10:05:33 · answer #10 · answered by stronzo5785 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋