Where was God during the holocaust?

Question

I know this was asked previously but I really need a concrete answer. Millions of innocent people died mercilessly including the disabled, children and babies, etc. I can't believe someone or some of us let this happen. What was U.S. doing when this happened? Was there some effort to stop this from happening?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust

and where was God?

Answer 1

Anyone who thinks God is up in the sky somewhere sitting on a throne watching everything that goes on here on Earth is simply naive.

God set up the SYSTEM. We are in charge. We are all responsible for our own actions and will have to account for them, lifetime after lifetime after lifetime... until we get it right. God does not look down and decide what is good and what is bad, and interfere with anything. If you read up on the universal law of karma and reinarnation, it all might make a little more sense as to why we are all born into vastly different sets of circumstances ... and why "bad things happen to good people". No one is innocent ... everyone reaps what he sows. I'm sorry if this answer isn't comforting, but if you will investigate a little further, you might find that it makes a lot of sense.

Answer 2

You have to understand that according to the Bible that the greatest gift God gave to man was "free will". So in accordance with a gift such as free will, God has no place interfering in how we make and act on those choices. In the larger picture look at what the Holocaust did in terms of the human condition. Up until that period in our history we have never experienced such a horrible and terrible thing. It is probably the single most determining gauge against all other evils. So in a matter of sense the holocaust would give a sense of what is good and evil to its extreme.

Answer 3

There will be a day when he will return, but until then Satan is the ruler of the earth, and God has allowed this to prove a point. Apparantly one that not many people realize from reading the Bible. Satan didn't challenge God's power over him physically, after all, it would be a wipe job, Satan instead challenged God's "RIGHT TO RULE." This means that God could do one of two things, #1 destroy Satan and put an end to it and possibly lose more angels by killing him outright (after all, he didn't get a chance to prove himself) or #2 prove once and for all time that he, God was the ONLY one that was wise enough to rule the angels, Heaven and Mankind. This meant that any future challenge could be met with swift and deadly force and no one could question God's will, after all, He had proven it by allowing Satan a chance to prove himself.

Ruler of the Earth

The apostle Paul associates Satan with "the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places," and speaks of them as "the world rulers of this darkness." (Eph. 6:11, 12) As a governing force in the invisible realm immediately about the earth, he is "the ruler of the authority of the air." (Eph. 2:2) In Revelation he is shown to be the one "misleading the entire inhabited earth." (Rev. 12:9) The apostle John said that "the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." (1 John 5:19) He is therefore "the ruler of this world." (John 12:31) That is why James wrote that "the friendship with the world is enmity with God." (James 4:4)

This is why when Christ Jesus taught his apostles to pray, he said, "Let your will be DONE, ON EARTH, as it is in heaven." And why in the Old Testament it gives a promise in the future of one day where "a Lion will lie down with a Lamb, and a Child will lead them." However, this will not happen until Satan is done away with and Christ and His fathers Kingdom returns!

Answer 4

What do you mean where was God?

God was and is there and has always been there. He is the Living, the Eternal.

Coming to why God doesn't stop all this. Just tell me one thing. If everything in the world is right, there is no evil, then what would be the value of this 'trial' ? How can we be tested? The test immediately loses its importance as soon as you think of a perfect world.

Man has the potential to do both good and evil and he has the Free Will to choose which way to go. From the perspective of those innocent people who got killed, they will ask on the Day of Judgement their murderers, why were they killed? What was their fault? Then the ones who murdered them would be held accountable and the recompense will be paid.

When the female (infant), buried alive, is questioned. For what crime she was killed; When the scrolls are laid open (Qur'an, 81:8-10)

Answer 5

God is a concept of the human mind. As such, God was being systematically abused, starved, tortured, and killed in the millions during World War II, in which an estimated 60 million people, mostly civilians, died. Finally, the God people, outnumbering the Devil people, got the upper hand and beat the crap out of the Devil, so there was peace on Earth for a few years, until the next war broke out.

Don't you people get it? Stop blaming God and take a good hard look at human nature.

Answer 6

Millions of people are dyeing now. You talk as if we are living in peace today and there are no violence what so ever any where in the world. God was at the same place he is now: in a book hiding in a closet, where people only look for him when there is a holiday or when someone dies. The problem is that God has to be in everyone's heart to be effective, not just a name in an old and dusty book in the back of the closet.

Answer 7

Read 1 John 5:19. The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one. That's not God. Jesus taught his disciples to pray for God's kingdom to come and for his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. The bible also tells us that we are living in the last days of this system of things (2 Timothy 3:1-5, Matthew 24, Luke 21). When God's kingdom is established on the earth, he will make all past wrongs right again. He will put an end to all suffering (Revelation 21:3,4).

He cares, he really does.

Answer 8

God was there with them. Satan wants God's chosen people destroyed, and he will stop at nothing to do it. Satan has a short time here on earth and he is going to take as many people to hell with him. He will go after the people that believe in Jesus Christ. He has everyone who don't believe, but he attacks the people that follow Christ, so that more will turn to him, and stop people from getting saved. When we are going through the valley, God is right there carrying us. He never leaves us, and it is an honor to be beaten for the Lord's name. He took the stripes for us, and was nailed to a cross. He took on the sins of the world, so that we could go to heaven. God had to turn his back on Jesus when He died on the cross for us. He knows what it is not to have God when a person most needs Him. Only the people that die without Jesus will know this also.

Answer 9

The USA was fighting for it's butt in world war two when this happened. The Germans and God let it happened so lets not be blaming anyone else. That's why we are in the mess we are in today having to defend Israel in the Middle East. The UN gave Israel to the Jews after world war two because of the holocaust. And that's where the trouble begin.xx

Answer 10

The problem of free will is the problem of whether rational agents exercise control over their own actions and decisions. Addressing this problem requires understanding the relation between freedom and causation, and determining whether or not the laws of nature are causally deterministic. The various philosophical positions taken differ on whether all events are determined or not—determinism versus indeterminism—and also on whether freedom can coexist with determinism or not—compatibilism versus incompatibilism. So, for instance, hard determinists argue that the universe is deterministic, and that this makes free will impossible.

The principle of free will has religious, ethical, and scientific implications. For example, in the religious realm, free will may imply that an omnipotent divinity does not assert its power over individual will and choices. In ethics, it may imply that individuals can be held morally accountable for their actions. In the scientific realm, it may imply that the actions of the body, including the brain and the mind, are not wholly determined by physical causality. The question of free will has been a central issue since the beginning of philosophical thought.