Is god cruel?

Answer 1

Well, let's see: He gives cancer to 3 year old kids. What do you think?

(And don't give me any lofty load of BS about "Satan." God created Satan, who was one of the original archangels but fell from grace because he challenged God, so obviously, God is ultimately responsible)

Answer 2

Since a common definiton of cruelty is "an intentional act that causes pain or suffering", then yes, God is cruel. However, that assumes that there is something inherently evil about pain and suffering. Is this so? Not at all. Case in point: A child is born without the capacity to feel physical pain. It bites its fingers and appendages off, nearly dying from blood-loss. The child continues laughing but the mother cries out to God "why can't my child feel pain?" See my point?
No, there is nothing inherently wrong with pain and suffering. I think what you are really asking is: why can't I understand God's reason for being cruel? Surely nobody can doubt his reason. The universe that he set in motion is an astonishingly rational structure. The only problem is that we are ignorant of many things in the universe and most importantly, we are ignorant of the mind of God. This ignorance and the accompanying desire for knowledge of God and universe is the source of another kind of suffering. If we do not know the reason behind this suffering, then we simply need to suffer more.

Answer 3

sometimes efficiency seems cruel, but often it becomes necessary. We kill poor little bacteria all the time becuz there becomes a necessity, are we cruel. Sometimes if a group has a disease which which threatens the community then some lose their freedom in quarantine, are the ones on the outside being cruel. Sometimes pesty little rodents threaten health and food storage, slowly degrading shelters, on rare occasions get big enough and hungry enough to attack baby humans, If we reduce their population using poisen, traps etc. are we being cruel.

I think that while God is superior to us in many ways, I think we have become intelligent enough to realize He may have created this place using pre-existing rules and since His creation was interferred with that He may be trying to save His creation from things He never planned on happening.

Freedom and choice may be also conditions in heaven thus the scripture which reads "there are evil powers in places in heaven" (there is some disagreement on the word evil in this script Eph. 3 10), So if like here there is in existance powers in disagreement with our creator then He has some rules or environmental rules He must live by or He chooses to live by because the alternative is not preferable. Since we see not the big picture then how can we make correct decisions regarding the things we may see as cruel.

No doubt Bacteria may see us as cruel, aggressive unfair, but their world is so much smaller than us and how could we possibly explain to them that if they modified their behavior we could live together in peace.

I know maybe we should find someone willing to become a bacteria to go in and tell them just do not do this and that and we can let them live with us in peace. Probably won't work. No doubt that volunteer would get crucified.

Answer 4

No.

The idea of cruelty from God originates with commercial Christianity that teaches that bad people go to hell when they die. If this were true then we would be at the mercy of a sadistic God.

Learn the truth of the matter from a booklet called Hell Is A Lie.

No, God is not cruel.

This phrase is repeated over 40 times in the Bible:

"...his mercy endures forever."

Answer 5

Is it cruel to create a universe and place man in that universe and let him choose whether he will do the will of God or his own will, and then, come to earth as a man, having no sin of his own, to become sin for man, and die on a cross to pay the cost of man doing his own will? Is it cruel to resurrect that man and place him above all principalities and powers and give everlasting life to those who believe on that man? Is it cruel to be a light in the darkness? Darkness was all that there was before Jesus Christ created the world. No, Jesus Christ is not cruel.

Answer 6

No God is not cruel, man is.

God is a God of righteousness. It is not possible to be righteous and cruel.

Being cruel is causing harm to another, in any form, to further your own desires.

God only wants what is best for us, in every area of our life.

Giving man the power of choice and honoring the choices that we make is not cruelty. It is being true to His word, since God will never take the power of choice away from us according to His word.

Answer 7

only if you consider mass killings, and animal sacrifice cruel.oh, and slavery and allowing women to be subjugated to men. Almost forgot, human sacrifice as well as animal sacrifice. so if you would consider that cruel then yes God is cruel...or at least that what it says in the Bible...but hey only if you believe in the literal meaning of the Bible could you consider God cruel

Answer 8

Well, the answer is pretty simple. In the Bible, about 2,038,334 people were killed by God, or as a result of his command. That's not counting those who died in incidents like those of the great flood at the time of "Noah's Ark." Don't forget about all the rape, muder, pillage, and other murders done by God in the Bible. So yeah, I'd say God's pretty cruel.

And, God's answer to about every crime or personal problem is to stone someone to death.

Answer 9

God in the OT is, he orders some of the most savage things ever attributed to a book. HOWEVER, and this is a big however, the scriptures are allegory. I would even say it is unworthy to even think that "God" is some allegory out of the OT. The OT God, if you have reason is deranged. Like a angry man, basking in worship. That's allegory, completely unworthy to even compare the first cuase with such thing.

Answer 10

Cruel is subjective to the person involved. What is wrong or pain-full is subjective to the culture involved.
Punishment is only a way to change a wrong that was not changed when instructed.

Answer 11

The real God who sent His Son to the cross is not cruel, He is just. the other fake gods are al cruel because their master satan himself is cruel.