, even allowing slavery, knowing full well the suffering people would experience because it wasn't one of his ten commandments: "Thou shalt not own slaves nor buy and sell them for profit."
2006-11-27 12:48:09 · 10 answers · asked by Socratic Pig 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
there is no God
2006-11-27 12:49:40 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Brooke 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
We're not omniscient, omnipotent, nor omnipresent, how can beings such as us answer that question? Know that this is not Heaven, it's earth. If there was no suffering, it would be Heaven. The suffering shows how radical of a place Heaven is, and will be when we get there. It's so different from Earth. It's so much better. What difference would there be if earth were perfect too? There is also much good in this earth that many people overlook.
2006-11-27 20:52:50 · answer #2 · answered by pleiades423 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Decrees of God is His eternal purpose, according to His will, whereby He has foreordained whatever comes to pass. His Decrees do not negate the responsibility of people for their sins nor does it mean that God is responsible for sin. But, it necessarily is true that God knows all things actual as well as potential, and that that which exists, exists due to His creative effort. It also follows that God has eternally known all events that have occurred, are occurring, and will occur in this creation including the fall, redemption, glorification, etc. Yet, God is not the one responsible for the sin in the world but has decreed, by His permission, that it be allowed to exist. Isaiah 46:9-10 says, "Remember the former things long past, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, 10Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘My purpose will be established, and I will accomplish all My good pleasure."
God's efficacious decrees are those decrees which God has purposed and determined to occur, i.e., Acts 2:23 "this Man, delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death." God's permissive decrees are those decrees where He permits things to occur such as evil.
2006-11-27 20:57:53 · answer #3 · answered by Jo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't answer why he allows these things; I don't know. I do know that this same God that allows these evils to happen to us came down and suffered torture and betrayal and death when He was completely innocent of sin, that He cried with others who suffered in His time here, and that He understands pain. While evil still exists, He suffered with us, and one day He'll destroy it forever.
2006-11-27 23:32:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not barbaric, humans are barbaric. God is the all loving observer of this illusion we call life.
2006-11-27 20:57:41 · answer #5 · answered by Jeff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God allows evil. He even allows people to call Him barbaric. But one day all evil will end and judgment will come.
2006-11-27 20:50:43 · answer #6 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You're reading the wrong books, my friend! Why not open your mind to the endless possibility that is life itself?
2006-11-27 20:55:19 · answer #7 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Real God isn't, Bible Drone God is.
2006-11-27 20:49:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God defines morality. You are not to judge God.
2006-11-27 20:49:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Because he's nature and nature is cruel.
2006-11-27 20:50:49 · answer #10 · answered by moebiusfox 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋