2006-10-24 08:44:39 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If god was there, then the Jews, Communists, Gypsies, Polish, captured POWs and other non "Aryan" peoples wouldn't have died needlessly.
2006-10-24 13:07:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The question itself can only be asked by a believer, for if the answer is that there is no God then there are no questions. Without God, the world has no destiny & no purpose.Humans may decide to act as they wish for there is no accountability. Super races may be formed and only the fittest will survive. In a Godless world the Holocaust is not a theological question,rather a statement of how low man can stoop? The question becomes rhetorical - not where was God?? or was God at Auschwitz??,but rather ' where was man during the Holocaust?
The very fact that those who claim they are non- believers incessantly ask where was God or was God there, is in fact the greatest proof that they too,deep in their hearts,believe there is a God, only they are aching for an answer to the question. They want to believe in God but the Holocaust poses a question of such dramatic proportions they feel they can not believe.
Is this your pretext for asking the question? Or one who thinks this is a question, true believers can't answer? Because I do have an answer with absolute truth. I'm just not sure you really want a answer.
2006-10-24 18:16:28 · answer #2 · answered by Faith walker 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have heard it said that Jesus is crucified again and again in all of the evil acts in the world. I have heard this theory especially when there is an act of evil against a child. Jesus is there with the child to shield their soul. He can not protect their body against the evil intent of another human being with the free will do to evil, but He shields the child’s soul. And if they live through that time and turn to Him for help He will bring someone into their life to help them heal. If they do not live He will take them to be with Him where they will no longer know pain and will be safe in His love.
And the Jews are God’s very special children. They are His chosen people. I think that the acts of evil against his precious children by His other children must have broken His heart. Of course He was there and His angels were there helping as best they could. And the tears of the angles mingled with the blood of the martyrs.
2006-10-24 22:53:08 · answer #3 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i can only say yes - i do not have to understand why or how he could have let things go on the way things did - but God is everywhere all at the same time - that is why i can say yes.
that era has always interested me - i have read much on the subject of the nazi's and the regeme of the reich - the devil was there also. but eventualy God made an end to it all - you know that
hitler had a plan to take the U S of A with in the same torture.?
2006-10-24 15:51:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God's presence is everywhere, but for now, he allowing humans to determine for themselves whether the time has come to realize that human forms of government will never solve the earth's problems. Like children, we have to learn the hard way. Things may be bad, but life is short, especially compared to thousands of years of everlasting life, once we learn that lesson.
Also remember, Jews were not the only ones prisoned at Auschwitz.
2006-10-24 15:49:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know where you're going with this. You want me to say there is no God because he allowed the Hollocost to happen. Well just think if God had actually done something and ended the world right then and there during WWII. There would be no 60's revolution and no Beatles or Jimi Hendrix. There would be no 1980s. No U2, or Nightmare on Elm St. movies. No 1990s and definately no you and me. So why do you keep asking these pointless questions about God?
2006-10-24 17:41:38 · answer #6 · answered by Harry Manback 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would think he was playing golf at the time. Were these burnt offerings meant for him? Jews were not the only ones who died. I remember something Jesus was supposed to have said about "why hast thou forsaken me?"Or was that the Hollywood version? Everything happens for a reason. Would people have felt the same way about the Jews if it had not been for the Holocaust? The truth is out there......something sure is "Fishy"
2006-10-24 18:45:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes He was there. There too there were people who loved Him, followed Him, and were still able to comfort, care for, and share with others. God has not promised us no suffering in this life. He only promised strength for those moments and love to go with. Relief from suffering comes in the next life.
2006-10-24 15:54:44 · answer #8 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As Teyve says in "Fiddler on the roof", "I know we are your chosen people, but why us"?
It is hard to justify a god after seeing that, yet I know of people who both lost and found faith through the experience of seeing the camps.
2006-10-24 15:50:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've read many accounts of Jehovah's Witnesses and what they endured at all of Hitler's concentration camps.
They all testify to the fact that if Jehovah hadn't been with them, they would have died there.
I've also enjoyed accounts from former guards from the concentration camps who are now JW's because of the faith and courage the witnesses showed.
2006-10-24 15:53:04 · answer #10 · answered by TeeM 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋