Question about God???

Question

Right, first off, I'm not trying to offend anyone here. Lots of bad things appear to happen on a daily basis. My question is, is God all-powerful and just doesn't care, or is he actually not all-powerful, and therefore not able to protect people from bad things?

Answer 1

Do you really think that there is a god, or allah, or buddha.
The Romans and Greeks had lots of gods and fervently believed that they were the source of good (and evil). The Inca's had the sun god, the Vikings also had a variety of gods and they all believed that their gods were real and all-powerful.
Why should we believe that our particular god choice is any better than theirs?
The religious write off disasters as Gods Will and thank him for any good fortune. What a crock.

Answer 2

God does care and has the power to do something about it. Unfortunately, we don't seem to want to be told why we're going wrong. We keep coming up with apparent solutions to our problems. However, these solutions don't work. We end up either no better off, or even worse off. As I say, we don't want to be told this, we need to see it with our own eyes.

The problem is that we have decided to rule ourselves without God's guidance. If God stepped in while we were trying to prove it, we could say (rightly or wrongly) that we can do it ourselves, because our action had natural consequences and things turned out well. Therefore God must stay back until it becomes blindingly obvious that our actions without God's guidance has taken us beyond the brink of disaster.

When that day comes, everything will be set straight. Those that have a humble and spiritual outlook and want to search for God and serve Him according to His way not their own, will get the chance to live beyond that time. Paradise conditions will be brought back to the Earth. Everyone who has lived will get the chance to live in that paradise. (There may be some that won't get there, but we are not the ones to judge that).

When eternal life is bestowed on all worthy humans, they will live on to a time when nothing bad will ever happen and all the badness that happens now will be completely forgotten, it won't come up in conversation, it won't enter into our thoughts. Essentially, it will be like it never happened.

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Answer 3

God is all powerful, and He does care.

But the adversary roams the earth to seek, kill and destroy.

If you are not under the protection of God, by accepting His Son, you are wide open to attack from the adversary.

I am a Christian, and I feel the protection from God. I sometimes get advance warning not to do something. The key is to listen to His voice and obey.

Yes, bad things happen. When they happen, if you are a child of God, He will comfort you and give you strength to endure.

I've lived this life without God, and I now live this life with God.

It's as different as day and night.

For God said "If I am for you, who can be against you?"

Answer 4

God is both all-powerful and He does care. He is able to protect people from things, I have had personal experiences that He has in my own life. However He has not protected me from chronic physical pain that I have had since I have been a teenager. The pain and bad things we experience are a result of a fallen world, not God being weak or uncaring. He does care, the biggest proof, He sent His only Son to die for me so that I could live.

Answer 5

None of the above. God is a just God. The Bible says that all have sinned and the wages of sin is death. If someone has broken one of the ten commandments they are guilty of all of them. Therefore the cause of all the evil in the world is man. Now would God be a just God if He just stopped all the evil in the world? Also, no one knows how God thinks or what is His plan. All we can do is trust that everything will be okay for those who believe that Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven. Christ's death was the death we deserved and the Bible says that all of our sins and evil deeds were upon Him. He paid the price so that the just God would see Christ when He judges us in the end.

Answer 6

Have you ever gone through a particularly difficult time only to look back and realize how beneficial the struggle was?

When 'bad' things happen that we don't understand, we ask these kinds of questions. We do not always have the benefit of perfect sight in seeing the entire picture. Life is a series of tests designed to build us up. None of these tests are beyond our capability to succeed. Sometimes, success may include pain or death. But it's our souls that reap the most benefit. Our job is to make the best decisions based on what we know. If we do that, especially if we follow God's instructions along the way, in the end, we'll all be just fine.

Answer 7

Do not try to project temporal morality onto god.
Any box that you put him in will be totally invalid.
If you want to know his true nature then look at his son, Jesus Christ. He said "if you have known me then you have known the father" (god)
God living as a man Is Jesus Christ.
How did he live?
Bad things happen on earth because this is a fallen world and we are all subject to the influences of the fallen angels (pain/hate/evil in general etc...)
However when we return to the holy father, he will wipe away every tear and all will be made new.(no more corruptible bodies/evil/pain)
So don't resent god for the evil in this world.
We are the ones who broke with him, but he is the loving father who will always forgive us.
God Bless-

Answer 8

God gives us free will and I believe lets us make bad decisions. Years ago a bus filled with a church youth group ran head on into a truck driven by a drunk driver. Over fifty of those youth died (the driver of the truck lived). It was the worst bus disaster in the country. I believe that group prayed for safety before leaving for their ill-fated journey. Why then did it happen? Because God gave the truck driver free will, it wasn't God's will for him to get drunk and drive that evening. Without free-will we are nothing but robots. God doesn't create the bad in the world, but He can see to it that good things come out of the bad. Many more lives have been saved since that tragedy because it grew awareness of Drunken Driving and changed many laws around the country.

Answer 9

There is no right or wrong answer to this. There are only opinions.

As for the gods you described, the first is more like the deistic god. Deism involves the existence of a god that has amazing power, but is apathetic in matters of the human race. The second god is similar to those of polytheism, involving a god more human, and therefore more prone to mistakes. The monotheistic god, in contrast, is "perfect," even though his/her/its perfections contradict each other. (Can such a god change his/her/its mind if he/she/it already knows his/her/its future choice?)

In my personal opinion, there is no god. However, of the two you listed, the first is more realistic than the second, even if evidence doesn't point to its existence. (Why would a god obsess over such a small creation such as the human race?)

Answer 10

God is an all-knowing & all-powerful God, he gives us the freedom to choose what we want, he does not just let bad things happen, there is a beginning and an end. What we do in the middle is our choice. He does protect people from bad things, when we choose to ask & seek his protection.