God burns a city to the ground and just because some women feels compasion for the people of the city he turn the woman into a pillar of salt
Why would a loving God kill every man, woman, child, animal on the planet in a gigantic flood? You think Hitler was evil and you justify this?
If there is an all powerful God, wouldn't it make more sense for him to just get 0rid of evil altogether. Or better yet, it would have made more sense to just start over.
2006-10-23 12:26:28 · 29 answers · asked by recycled 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes, according to history, God is the leading cause of death. I dont actually think there is one, but if there is and that's it... I have no interest in worshiping something like that. Sounds like a dictator... BELIEVE IN ME OR I WILL SEND YOU TO HELL!!!!!
2006-10-23 12:28:57 · answer #1 · answered by Smitten_Kitten 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
God starts over all the time. In the flood- 8 decent people survived to continue on. Yes, Sodom and her sister city were destroyed, but 3 people lived. The question you ask was already answered by Jesus Himself. He said that there was a field (the world) and in the night it was strewn with the seeds of weeds in the wheat. So the workers (angels) asked if everything should be burned and the owner of the field (God) said no, we'll wait till harvest (judgement day) and separate the wheat (the good) from the tares/weeds (the evil people). If God were to judge the earth right now, in justice, all of us would be dead, and the earth would be blasted into bite-sized chunks. That goodness He is going to wait.
2006-10-23 19:33:58 · answer #2 · answered by Damon 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who said that the stories in the bible are anything more than that? there is no physical proof of a world flood, so how do know one happened? The born again christian explanation of God getting rid of all evil is that it would take away all freedom of choice, but isn't it the same thing to totally accept God's programming. I believe there is intelligent creation, but a micro managing anthropomorphic God that is involved in every aspect of our lives? I have problems with. People kill people and use God as an excuse for their actions.
2006-10-23 19:47:50 · answer #3 · answered by you do not exist 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is the only one who knows why he made the flood,, but we have been taught that he was not impressed in the way humanity was turning out, so he ended it, but if you look at things in fact, how do we know that it was god that caused the flood, acts of nature has explained many of biblical mysteries, as for hitler he was a maniac and he failed in his bid to rule the world and when he was about to be caught he took the cowards way out by killing himself,, i hope this helps some .
2006-10-23 19:34:51 · answer #4 · answered by Lumper35 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
These people you are so worried about were exceedingly wicked. Abraham asked God to spare the city if there were only 10 righteous in it and God agreed. You are accusing a perfectly righteous God and Judge for wrong doing for punishing a very wicked people. What kind of judge would that be? How would you feel if your child was raped and killed and the judge just let the criminal go?
2006-10-23 19:34:40 · answer #5 · answered by beek 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because he has a God sized ego and a very fragile emotional state... the god of the bible is a selfish god. I think this verse sums it up best:
Gen 6:7
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Of course, those of us in the know are privy to the fact that god doesn't really exist. But we must sometimes posit a hypothetical to make a point.
2006-10-23 19:33:51 · answer #6 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You need to go back and read the Bible, God gave chances for the city to be saved, but Lot could not find one righteous person, outside of his own family. Lot even bargained with Lot, decreasing the number of righteous people that neede to be found to save the city. Sarah was told to not look back, but did anyway, she knew the consequences of her actions. The flood was God's attempt to start over, it didn't work, because after all He is working with failable, weak humans. Hitler was evil, but people could have stopped him, but they chose to do nothing, it's the herd instinct. Don't hold God responsible for our failings as human.
2006-10-23 19:33:08 · answer #7 · answered by Jenny Lou 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What you're describing is the LPOE (Logical Problem of Evil) when it comes to an omnimax god. Those with the minds of children are incapable of thinking rationally about what you're asking them to think through. There is no god, except for in the minds intellectual weaklings incapable of logical thought. People get killed by people, magical sky daddy's have nothing to do with it.
2006-10-23 19:30:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First off, hew can't get rid of evil because of free-will.
And he promised not to start over for a 2nd time, after he did start over with the great flood (think Noah's Ark).
God can kill people as a punishment for disobeying him.
He's God, he gets to make the rules.
Did your parents ever punish you for disobeying them?
They deserved for you to be an obedient child and when you wern't, out of a sense of teaching you a lesson they punished you.
God does the same.
2006-10-23 19:32:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Abraham, the father of Israel, pleaded with God to spare Sodom if fifty righteous people could be found in the city. God relented and accepted his appeal. Eventually, after a good bit of haggling, Abraham got God to agree to spare the city if only ten righteous people could be found.
God, not knowing how many righteous people were in the city of Sodom, sent two angels to find out. The angels warned Lot to take his family and leave town and not even look back, but the only ones who would go with Lot were his wife and his two betrothed daughters (their husbands-to-be chose not to believe Lot or the angels). They went to Zoar (the center one of five cities along the southeast shore of the Dead Sea), but on the way Lot's wife disobeyed, looked back longingly, and became a "pillar of salt."
-You see she looked back longing for the sinful life style God has given her a chance to leave. He spared her but she chose to look back. Ugh I don't believe it...
2006-10-23 20:01:27 · answer #10 · answered by Kyria D 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is all-powerful and righteous, which means it is up to Him when to judge the evil of the world. He will get rid of evil altogether, but right now He is letting Satan have his reign. We must put our trust and faith in Him and wait for this time. God wants us to come to Him by our choice
2006-10-23 19:32:20 · answer #11 · answered by Daniel K 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋