You have the typical scenario of the guy who says he's wasting his life on alcohol. He "turns his life to Christ" and through a "miracle" he stops drinking and gets better, or so he claims, yet god is turning a blind eye on poor suzy in etheopia (and lets assume she's Christian) dying from hunger and/or aids? Why would god make a miracle for some drunkard that with some half rate treatment and self control might have gotten better and not for poor suzy that has no options available to her?
2006-11-17 00:51:29 · 23 answers · asked by Alucard 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Have you read the scenarios on supposed miracles?
People being rescued from drowning by invisible hands?
Personally I think it has to do with faith. I think some people want to believe that they were saved by a deity. It makes life so much more interesting.
The drunkard didn't stop drinking through a miracle. He just had nothing to believe in while drinking and when he made the choice to "try God" it gave him the strength to TRY not drinking.
Suzy is so sick and hungry she has no strength for faith. She needs real help. Is anyone there to help her? This is where we (people) have to do "God's work or it doesn't get done.
In short, the drunkard helped himself. It was alot easier for him to stop drinking , then it is for Suzy to start eating when there is no food available, or to get well when there is no medicine available.
2006-11-17 01:05:27 · answer #1 · answered by Irma 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Why do you put more importance on some people than others? Is the drunk not a person? God is working thorugh those who obey Him day after day. There is a lot of bad in this world and it will be here until the final curtain call, however you cannot claim that God doesn't see the suffering of some just because someone who was lost is now found/
You are saying that starving kids in Africa are more important than the drunk, which is not true. No one is better or worse (person wise) than anyone else.
2006-11-17 00:59:20 · answer #2 · answered by newcovenant0 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God loves us all equally, as has been stated...and since we are human, and can't always understand the reasoning God has, we don't have the answers, other than, "God has a Divine plan". Maybe not the answer you'd want, but that's the way it is! At least for now! We'll have the answers to this and all the other things we're concerned about, the next time around! Just have faith and trust, that God has a plan, and has reasons for allowing certain things to occur in this lifetime.
God Bless you!
2006-11-17 01:09:44 · answer #3 · answered by JoJoCieCie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says God doesn't have a plan for "Little Suzy"? Her salvation if she is Christian may be much grander than the drunk guy. God sends many people to this part of the world to help these children. Many would be already dead if it weren't for missionaries who go their and risk their lives to save others. And let's not forget children are suffering everywhere, not just Ethiopia. Why not sponsor a child or go help out if your that concerned -instead of blamin God.
2006-11-17 01:05:54 · answer #4 · answered by Patty W 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Dear Alucard,
First let me ask you What are you doing for the little kids who are dying in Africa?
I know that God knows what He is doing.
I know that God does what is good ALL of the time.
I know that God is trustworthy.
Perhaps the drunkard will be the one through whom the awesome uncreated Creator of the universe discovers the key to AIDS or to famine.
God works miracles through people who make themselves available to Him.
2006-11-17 01:03:45 · answer #5 · answered by JOYfilled - Romans 8:28 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I prayed for those youngsters each and every nighttime, some distance earlier I ever even considered myself. i could no longer think of a god would abandon them, the youngsters in North Korea, those suffering genocide in Sudan, those being systematically raped in the Congo, etc etc - if he relatively existed and became stable. And if a god existed and did no longer do something approximately that stuff, he wasn't worth of my worship or care. yet yet another excuse i'm an atheist. that's a nicer international that way :)
2016-10-15 16:10:38 · answer #6 · answered by balom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gee, you probably don't think God stops to make sure the other girl named Suzy, in the U.S., gets an A on her math test or gets selected to be on the cheerleader squad? You really are a skeptic, aren't you?
To Jesus Freak - I've helped out the starving kids in Africa with donation to UNICEF. Can you say the same?
2006-11-17 01:00:13 · answer #7 · answered by Kathryn™ 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you support either the starving child in Africa or the neighbour in your home town?
I suspect you don't help anyone and therefore blame God.
If I give money to starving refugees from one country I suppose you can pick ten causes you have declined.
When will you stop complaining about God and start doing some good?
2006-11-17 01:12:37 · answer #8 · answered by angle_of_deat_69 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Come on now! That's not fair at all. Everyone knows God loves drunks!!! That's why so many Preachers are drunk all the time. Hell every time I drank ( Granted it's been twenty years since I've tilted out so I'm not in a state of drunken Grace at the moment ) I could feel God closer to me! Isn't that why people drink? If the starving orphans of the world want God to help out they better start drinking too! I thought everyone new this!
2006-11-17 01:01:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The starving children who may have aids in Africa are our responsibility. If you think it is so bad what have you done to help?
And by the way God is Omnipotent and Omnipresent which means he sees all knows all and is everywhere..... What an AWESOME GOD!!!!!!!
2006-11-17 01:01:04 · answer #10 · answered by Jesus freak 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋