If you had the powers of the biblical god, would you feed the starving children in the world?

Question

If so, why doesn't he? Don't give me that C.S. Lewis "The Problem with Pain" crap either, that was the most ridiculous book I've ever read.

yngona, this is a problem that kills people

it's hardly an experience that makes life worth living

Wow, C.S. Lewis was full of it, and he still made more sense then some of you.

acc, you totally sidelined the question, you should think about the ministry as a vocation, you'd be good at it.

I wish I could pick a worst answer.

Answer 1

you bet!

id give up this whole heaven, helland earth thing. id remove all people from hell (except people like hitler, murderers and rapists) and just hang out....feed all the people....make heaven on earth.

if the world today is the best the christian god can do....i vote for a coup.

Answer 2

THE BIBLE TEACHES THAT GOD WILL BRING ABOUT THESE CHANGES ON THE EARTH.

“He will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore.”—Revelation 21:4

“The lame one will climb up just as a stag does.”—Isaiah 35:6

“The eyes of the blind ones will be opened.”—Isaiah 35:5

“All those in the memorial tombs will . . . come out.”—John 5:28, 29

“No resident will say: ‘I am sick.’”—Isaiah 33:24

“There will come to be plenty of grain on the earth.”—Psalm 72:16

For example, think about a wise and loving father with a grown son who is still living at home with his parents. When the son becomes rebellious and decides to leave home, his father does not stop him. The son pursues a bad way of life and gets into trouble. Is the father the cause of his son’s problems? No. (Luke 15:11-13) Similarly, God has not stopped humans when they have chosen to pursue a bad course, but he is not the cause of the problems that have resulted. Surely, then, it would be unfair to blame God for all the troubles of mankind.

Consider this illustration. Imagine that a teacher is telling his students how to solve a difficult problem. A clever but rebellious student claims that the teacher’s way of solving the problem is wrong. Implying that the teacher is not capable, this rebel insists that he knows a much better way to solve the problem. Some students think that he is right, and they also become rebellious. What should the teacher do? If he throws the rebels out of the class, what will be the effect on the other students? Will they not believe that their fellow student and those who joined him are right? All the other students in the class might lose respect for the teacher, thinking that he is afraid of being proved wrong. But suppose that the teacher allows the rebel to show the class how he would solve the problem.

Jehovah has done something similar to what the teacher does. Remember that the rebels in Eden were not the only ones involved. Millions of angels were watching. (Job 38:7; Daniel 7:10) How Jehovah handled the rebellion would greatly affect all those angels and eventually all intelligent creation. So, what has Jehovah done? He has allowed Satan to show how he would rule mankind. God has also allowed humans to govern themselves under Satan’s guidance.

The teacher in our illustration knows that the rebel and the students on his side are wrong. But he also knows that allowing them the opportunity to try to prove their point will benefit the whole class. When the rebels fail, all honest students will see that the teacher is the only one qualified to lead the class. They will understand why the teacher thereafter removes any rebels from the class.

Answer 3

The question should more properly be, "Why do WE allow children to starve?" God gave us instructions in His Book on how to be good Christians, and feeding the hungry and clothing the naked is part of that. Starving people give Christians an opportunity to manifest the goodness of God through themselves.
I think you will find that most (if not all) of the starving people in Africa and Asia are those who have rejected God. They are either animist or Muslim. When we "seek first the kingdom of God", then all these things (food, clothing, shelter) will be added to us. I see that in many African villages that have been Christianized, they now have food, water, better housing and sanitation. God has provided for them. The starving people also seem to be the ones that are spreading AIDS around Africa via sin. If they would turn from their sin and follow God, he would heal them. That doesn't mean that we shouldn't give humanitarian aid to non-Christian cultures (Jesus would!) Jesus would want us to show His mercy to EVERYONE. People don't care what you think until they think you care. Only then will they be open to the Gospel.

Answer 4

One of the greatest gifts God gave us besides Jesus is free will. To make your "perfect world" one needs to strip every person of their tendency to commit evil, to do so we need to take away the choice- free will. We are then only robots basically, doing good only because we have to and were made and forced to. God wants a loving relationship with each of us. Relationships with robots do not work. Real love is a choice (whether with God or with any human being). Hence, free will comes in. However, because humans use free will instead to commit evils such as killing and greed and because we all share the same world and are affected by one another's decisions, that's where suffering comes in. One kind of suffering is starvation, usually caused by other people (greed, war, corruption, etc.)
P.S. Sorry, I've never read C.S. Lewis.

Answer 5

You want to know what is funny, there is No food shortage! It is all politics preventing food from being given. There is more than enough food to feed everyone in the whole world, it is a bunch of crap everyone screaming food shortage! "Oh what kind of God does that starves poor children, makes babies, starve" God doesn't do that men do that, men who rule the planet into ruins. Rulers of countries prevent there own people from maintaining food. You are so worried about food shortage, when is the last time YOU OPENED your door to the homeless starving people that surely live around YOU! God will provide for HIS people, and all his people will tell you they are fine! Plenty of food plenty of space for all of us alive and all that died, it would give everybody on the planet a little less than an acre of land apiece. If your life is so great w/o God why do you question the God you do not believe in!!!!!!!

Answer 6

Your assumption is that this life is all there is. That if we are not happy or well fed in this life then that is the ultimate injustice when the ultamate injustice would be for God not to reveal himself or save anybody. That is of coarse a false assumption.

A time is coming when believers will enjoy a new body that is free from disease and the need for food. Dont forget it is OUR sin that destroyed this world and made it what it is!

Answer 7

I don't know everything God does - nor do I presume that I do.
If it doesn't fit what you think then be a "free thinker" and realize he loves everyone more than we can imagine and suffers with us - but there is a battle for this world that has caused pain and suffering, and God will not push himself into those (our) decisions.
It is tragic - but is not God's will or fault.
He will crush evil at the end of time.

What are you doing to help and serve others?

Answer 8

This is the way I see it:

STATEMENTS
1. God knows everything and is
everything and is all powerful.
2. If Me=God, and
God=Everything and power,
then Me=everything and
power
3. God knows what is best.
4. If God knows what is best,
and me=God, then I should
know what is best.
5. If God doesn't feed the
starving children, and
me=God, then I wouldn't.

REASONS
1. Given, through the word of God
2. Transitive Prop, your given.
3. Given, through the word of God.
4. Transitive Prop, your given.
5. Transitive Prop

So my answer is no.

Answer 9

If I won the lottery, I'd feed many of the world's starving kids. It doesn't take God, it takes people with money and the ability to care. God has given us the ability, its only greed that stops it from happening

Answer 10

if i had the powers of a biblical god (or any other god for that matter) no one would be starving.

i will stick with the goddess. i believe that harm none also means do good. we have everything we need to make a difference. it's up to us to try.

Answer 11

Why not make everyone in the world equal while you're at it? Not critisising, just wondering about all those other people who suffer, and not necessarily just from starvation.