Did God Create Halitosis, Acne, and Flatulence?

Question

Since people say that god created "everything", did he create AIDs, acne, and the famously fragile spine? I hardly think there is much intelligence in those designs...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fdVucvo-kDU

Answer 1

Well, usually when you get stinky/gross stuff going on in your body, it's a sign of poor diet or hormonal imbalances (sorry, teens!), stuff like that. So as a warning, maybe these things have some merit. Of course, many people have stank breath and don't know it...so I'm not sure whose benefit the halitosis is for.

As far as bad backs, I agree that the spine and vertebrae could use a bit more intelligence in the design. Maybe we just haven't been walking upright long enough to work out the kinks (pun available if you want it.) I pulled a back muscle going up the steps at a movie theatre one time...and it wasn't even a good movie! It was Snow Falling on Cedars! What a diabolical stroke of bad luck!

Now, with viruses, I'm not sure how they fit in the creation story. They mutate extremely rapidly, and I wouldn't blame God for creating something that mutated and mutated until it turned into a vicious killer. I suppose you could make a case for disease being a way to cull the herd and thereby strengthen the gene pool. Also, it could be a way to teach compassion because disease isn't necessarily the result of actions--you can get some stuff from just breathing or touching an infection. It's a lesson in humility or some bull like that.

I take disease as just part of the experience of being alive--you avoid what you can, but it's practically impossible to go without an infection or two. Studies have shown that animals raised in germ-free environments have incredibly weak immune systems and live much shorter lives, so a case can be made that disease not only gets rid of weak individuals, but it also strengthens stronger individuals.

But if I get a chance to talk to God, I'm not asking about halitosis, at least not until I get a good explanation for the sh!t I've had to deal with in my life. God has some 'splainin' to do.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Halitosis is the result of someone not keeping their mouth sanitary or by eating certain foods, it is initiated by man not inflicted by God.

Acne is an immune system response, usually it occurs seldom on the body as a reaction to a pathogen; however, like all immune responses it can be caused by allergens that the body thinks are pathogens. These allergens are typically dust, dirt, and oil. Acne is a good thing for the skin.

Flatulence is just like urination and defecation, but instead of expelling liquid or solid waste it is a means to expel gaseous waste. These gases are formed after the entrance of digestive materials into the intestinal tract; if they form in the stomach they will be expelled by burping. Like acne it is a natural process that is not bad for people.

Answer 4

The answer to that is no.

They are species of evil, or what should not be according to the proper essences of things.

God does not create evil because evil is not a positive being.

It is the absence or privation of the good or being that *ought* to be there according to the nature of a thing.

Goodness and being are convertible notions. They are one and the same, so any evil is a species of non-being.

Since it does not have positive existence, God is not needed to cause it, as God is the cause of all positive being or goodness.

It was St. Augustine who came to this solution, when he was perplexed by the problem of evil with the existence of an all-good God.


Now evil is present in the world because man sinned.

This evil is not a positive punishment sent by God, but is merely the result of man's union with God being severed in the garden of Eden.

With the severing of this union, then the human organism became subject to the randomizing forces that constitute the problems that we are subject to.

With perfect union with God, everything would have maintained its integrity and stayed in place.




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Answer 5

If you believe god made everythings, will come up with many questions. Such as god made a joke on him that he created people who does not obey him. He created every sins and tolures, sicks and painful, desires and anger. He is powerful but not stop death or let death return to alive. The nature disaster etc.
If you believe everythings is created by us, will we be god? Actually everythings is created by our desires. If we think we are god, will become pride and prejustic.

Answer 6

All of the ills that plague mankind are the results of evil, through sin, entering the world... The original design of God was for mankind to be perfect and live immortal lives . When man rejected God and evil gained then man lost immortality and became suseptable to all the results of evil through sin. which included the breakdown of the Genetic code causing birth defects and all the genetic illness etc.

Answer 7

AIDS and other diseases are a consequence of man's sin. Things like flatulence, though I don't know a WHOLE lot about them, are probably GOOD for people, perhaps to release extra air in the stomach or something. I don't claim to be a doctor, though. God bless!

Answer 8

Nope, he didn't. These things are the result of living in a fallen world. At the time of the fall that is when all the bad stuff came in because Satan was allowed to do his thing. Man chose to follow Satan rather than God and got bad breath and all the other stuff because of that decision.

Answer 9

I guess he did, even if the devil created them, being all knowing he created the devil and knew that the devil was going to create them. So by creating the devil he knew what was going to happen.

Answer 10

Very interesting video,thanks for the link!