It is up to God's people to make the changes they want to see in the world. If you go without a meal, why not take the money you would have spent on food and donate it to a charitable organization that feeds the hungry? Unicef and Oxfam are two such charities.
2006-12-28 02:03:01
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answered by Anonymous
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Maybe it's our responsibility to help our fellow human beings, instead of blaming god for not doing more. It's easy to moan about how unfair God is, but if everyone donated a fair portion of their time or income into charity projects then there would be no more poverty. It's our own selfishness in the 'developed' world that has resulted in numerous people dying every day of starvation or easily avoidable disease (like from drinking contaminated water).
2006-12-30 07:44:03
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answered by Nikita21 4
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Aren't we the ones who caused this in the first place? God might as well clean up our crap everytime we poo our pants as well.
He gave us a free will to exercise in helping our fellow man. He has given us the way to live our life and we have, for the most part, ignored him and lived selfishly and we see the results of man's selfishness to man.
The only way to exercise charity, is if God allows us to do so. If he continues to pick up our mess, we will NEVER learn and in fat any mistakes we make, we won't see the bad results of.
If you look around you, you can see that it starts with you, but the problem is, people point fingers at others and their defects without ever really looking at themselves and starting there. The more you change, the more someone near to you will changes and so it spreads.
That is not to say you are doing bad things like others, but you see the failings in all of us become blurred when we focus on the more severe failings of others. If we made an efforta nd got our own lives right with God, we would begin to take an effect on those around us without even needing preach. Daily prayer and putting that prayer into action inside of ourselves.
God is not to blame for the world's problems. He created it good, be we stuffed it up by disobeying Him. He gave us free will, so we could love Him freely. If He had created us to MAKE us love Him, where is the love in that?
Without adversity, where is the fight for good? Without rules, or testing, how does one ever know the person really loves them and is loyal? God tests each of us everyday in ways we don't often recognise and is asking us all the time to come closer to Him, to buffer off our sharp edges, our egos etc.
Often God is shut out of places and people's lives. He's ousted out of the schools and out of the classroom, yet when things are bad and wrong? who do people blame? God. It's probably one of the only times He gets spoken about. But when things are going well? HE's barely given a mention.
2006-12-28 08:55:55
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answered by Gus 3
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So you are asking why does God allow evil and calamity to exist on this world. Maybe to get our eyes off of this world and look to the place that God has prepared for us, a perfect world where there will be no pain or suffering. That is the hope of the Christian.
2006-12-28 08:49:45
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answered by oldguy63 7
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Gender issues aside; God may not have wished to decide on these troublesome moral questions, believing perhaps that the road to redemption are the acts of charity that lead from self awareness and love for those less fortunate.
My our coming year be as good as we can make it.
2006-12-28 09:05:33
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answered by stephen t 3
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Well, not having known and or spoken to "god", no one knows why things were created and run the way they do. We all have free will. Some misuse it for greed. For example, most of the starving people are in African regions...where there are diamonds and rich kings and such. And how about the Vatican having all those riches and treasures, while people are dying of starvation? Go figure???
2006-12-28 08:48:07
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answered by Anonymous
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God expects all people to be responsible to feed the hungry, shelter the homeless protect the Innocent. Asking "Why doesn't God" is a cop out of OUR responsibility.
What have YOU done to feed the hungry????
You second question is so lame it is not even worth a reply!
2006-12-28 08:48:08
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answered by williamzo 5
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He did make a world where the poor could be cared for. We're the ones that deny the poor. Read a Bible. You'll see very clearly that the poor are one of God's top priorities.
Step up. Take responsibility. Stop blaming God for our shortcomings.
2006-12-28 08:45:40
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answered by luvwinz 4
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Because he made the world with people who have free will - that's why we're here playing on computers when we could be doing something useful (but not as much fun) and why most of the world hasnt got enough and the minority (us) has too much.if we didnt have free will, we wouldnt be what we are - capable of love and free giving of ourselves and all the other good things we see around us in our fellow human beings. the downside though, as you point out is sufferiing.
2006-12-28 08:47:44
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answered by Star 3
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That's a very good question.
Part I think is free will. We have the choices to make for ourselves and how we wish to help one another.
In my own volunteer work, I've found those who we help to be those that are closest to God. I truly believe God exists in the positive spirit of those in need.
2006-12-28 08:47:02
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answered by JC 7
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