How can the following be reconciled with a Loving God?

Question

Charles Darwin went through a very upsetting upheaval in his faith when he couldn't deny the brutal elements of life. How do we explain the following:
1. The fact that life feeds on life with massive suffering occurring every moment as predator kills prey
2. The fact that lions and other species engage in infanticide (killing of babies) to promote their genetic line
3. The fact that a whole array of microscopic organisms are constantly at war with our bodies, trying to kill our bodies. The fact that our vulnerable bodies were built as mechanisms to keep the universe out and protect our internal organs. Why make bodies and the universe like this?

Frank - that's the whole point: Darwin could explain away the negatives done by humans as 'sin' but he couldn't resolve the way things were set up -- the whole setup of nature itself. Think about it.

Answer 1

God's Original purpose:
(Genesis 1:28-30) Further, God blessed them and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth.” 29 And God went on to say: “Here I have given to YOU all vegetation bearing seed which is on the surface of the whole earth and every tree on which there is the fruit of a tree bearing seed. To YOU let it serve as food. 30 And to every wild beast of the earth and to every flying creature of the heavens and to everything moving upon the earth in which there is life as a soul I have given all green vegetation for food.” And it came to be so.

How he will fix it:
(Daniel 2:44) “And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite;

(1 Corinthians 15:24-28) Next, the end, when he hands over the kingdom to his God and Father, when he has brought to nothing all government and all authority and power. 25 For he must rule as king until [God] has put all enemies under his feet. 26 As the last enemy, death is to be brought to nothing. 27 For [God] “subjected all things under his feet.” But when he says that ‘all things have been subjected,’ it is evident that it is with the exception of the one who subjected all things to him. 28 But when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone.

(Revelation 21:3-4) With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more,
neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

(Isaiah 11:6-9) And the wolf will actually reside for a while with the male lamb, and with the kid the leopard itself will lie down, and the calf and the maned young lion and the well-fed animal all together; and a mere little boy will be leader over them. 7 And the cow and the bear themselves will feed; together their young ones will lie down. And even the lion will eat straw just like the bull. 8 And the sucking child will certainly play upon the hole of the cobra; and upon the light aperture of a poisonous snake will a weaned child actually put his own hand. 9 They will not do any harm or cause any ruin in all my holy mountain; because the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters are covering the very sea.

Answer 2

Well, you have to look back in the very beginning and also at the prophecied end. Those are the times when God's full perfect plan for earth can be seen. When man chose to disobey, all this suffering was brought to earth. We made the choice, not Him. In the Garden, before the fall, everything was at peace, man walked with the animals.

Genesis 1:30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food

In the end, when there is a new heaven and a new earth it talks about babys playing with snakes and the lion laying down with the lamb.

Isaiah 11:6
The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.

Answer 3

Our present bodies are temporary sinful flesh the world is also a temporary place all will return to dust. We have the capacity to be more than mere flesh and blood but this comes from God and is eternal.We are a creation that is still in the process of being created and perfected that which is flesh and blood will die.God created man and man had a sin nature therfore man was a part from God who is righteous and eternal. God has a plan to restore his creation and that plan is to die in our place For many of the things that you see in this reality are examples of things that are spiritual. The world in which we live is destined to die and is obvious to the most carnal of us. The answer to this question is spiritual and in order to see that which is spiritual one must recieve revelation from God.

Answer 4

Hellfire is a pretend doctrine. Hell is purely the grave. The Bible says once you die you already know no longer something, can do no longer something and have no reminiscence. Ec. 9:5, 6. How could you already know in case you have been being tortured? The Bible additionally says the wages of sin is dying. no longer eternal torture. non secular leaders took the symbolic scriptures of entire destruction to signify completely tortured. they choose to scare people into being stable. destructive teachings on no account artwork nonetheless. If there have been a place of torture, Jehovah God could have advised Adam and Eve that in the event that they sinned they could be tortured in hell. He did no longer tell them that. He suggested they could die. that's thrilling to observe that each funeral I even have long previous to, the ministers on no account point out that the guy became into going to hell, no remember how undesirable that individual became into throughout the time of existence.

Answer 5

We have the choice of blessings or curses and when original sin occured we began living under the curse and to recieve blessings we have to accept them. God does not cause bad things but He allows them to happen as He has given us free choice. It is our choices that have caused the evil in the world.

Answer 6

3. what about the array of microscopic organisms that help our bodies, making life possible?

Answer 7

Darwin was a nominal Christian by birth, never understood what it meant to be a Christian and failed to have faith because he couldn't accept axioms of the Christian faith that are necessary to its understanding, like the idea of sin. His faith was either weak and uninformed, just like his philosophy, or non-existent and inconsequential, just like the claims of his philosophy.

Answer 8

1) That is not the way God created it, but it is the way satan perverted it.
2) Again, satanic perversion
3) Again satan! God created us with perfect body's, but through the agencies of satan we have become weaklings. Satan hates us with a passion of hatred that would frighten even his most ardent admirer.

Answer 9

Wow. Isn't it something how sin brought so much into the world. That was an easy question

Answer 10

LIONS????? how about PEOPLE!!!!!!!! killing BABIES??????

how do you explain that????????????

I can, its called sin and it explains why some folk promote darwinism. He was a nut and a fraud. If you know about him and have read what he wrote to explain our existence you would know that he was a wacko and if everyone would just study this nut job, his name would quickly fade away.