then why did he allow it. the amount of tension/anxiety/stress a human endures through life...is that really worth it. is life truly worth living... when you see so much evil/injustice and suffering in the world. and you are helpless and cannot do anything to change it. why did god not stop the evil people? and if he did not then is he wrong? and if god is wrong then how can he be god? i am really confused. i would appreciate some good answers. thanks.
2006-12-31 17:23:17 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
bikerbear- lol. your ahead in the number of league championships. you have 51 and celtic have 40. so they have a lot of catching up to do. ps was loving rangers run in the champions league last year.
2006-12-31 17:32:08 · update #1
joe cool- yes i agree. but if free will is ok, then why is the devil/satan in hell? what is his crime? he also had free will did he not. and he went against god and was thus cursed. does that not mean that if we do the same then we are also bound for hell?
2006-12-31 17:34:41 · update #2
frank- i feel for you. you seem to be a nice person and i can tell your intentions are pure as you would not want your child to suffer in such an evil world. i do believe that there is a god... but i dont think he can be worshipped in a world so evil. and if you do decide to have children, then i hope you find happiness in life and a good husband.
2006-12-31 17:37:32 · update #3
simpleman- i have seen too much to know about god. try stopping someone from raping a woman/child and if you can do so then come back to me.
2006-12-31 17:39:13 · update #4
dean- yes i agree ith you totally. but put it this way, if god says that if you have faith in me and that i will provide for you. but which person will have that faith. definitely no one on this planet. they would rather provide for themselves.
2006-12-31 18:09:10 · update #5
I never asked to be born. As far as I know, none of us do. This is why I have chosen not to reproduce and bring another child into this cruel world. I can tell your question is sincere.
I do not believe in God.
2006-12-31 17:30:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The first two answers that you were given are correct. Read the King James Bible and you may be able to find the answer. The book of John. Romans and Genesis is good to start out with. Proverbs will also give you some insight to many questions you may have. He gave His Son for us-he knew we would be sinners! That is why He gave His only begotton Son for us! He loves us, but our sin seperates us from God. If we were all made perfect, then God would not have allowed the creation of Hell! He also wouldn't have sent His Son for us! Hell was orginally for Satan and a 1/3 of his demons! We can't do it on our own and God wants us to know this! God will stop the evil people when GOD'S PEOPLE get on there knees and pray and seek his face -and turn from there wicked ways- then God will heal their land! this goes for all countries, not just America! We are all sinner by nature. ever had to teach a kid how to steal or lie? Nope. I rest my case!
2007-01-01 01:37:22 · answer #2 · answered by Beth 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe humans are to learn from our mistakes. Life is worth living so we can make it better. If your going to live be a protagonist throughout your life. Try to better something do some good. Spread some love. I mean really. And yes there is evil and injustice in the world but dang man everyone on here is pessimistic. Glass half empty boo-hoo but hey no one notices the left over chocolate milk! Stop whining try to reverse the evil that flows in the world by being reasonable, kind, having secular governments, be diplomatic, talk to one another, don't kill for revenge, forgiveness, etc. etc. Look at the good in the world people.
2007-01-01 01:31:05 · answer #3 · answered by Cindy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God is eternal, infinite, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, etc. Why should we human beings (not eternal, infinite, omniscient, omnipresent, or omnipotent) expect to be able to fully understand God’s ways? The book of Job - God had allowed Satan to do everything he wanted to Job except kill him. What was Job’s reaction? “Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him” (Job 13:15). “The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be praised” (Job 1:21). Job didn’t understand why God had allowed the things He did, but he knew that God was good and therefore continued to trust in Him. Ultimately, that should be our reaction as well. God is good, just, loving, and merciful. Often things happen to us that we simply cannot understand. However, instead of doubting God's goodness, our reaction should be to trust Him. "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight" (Proverbs 3:5-6).
It has been said, this world is the only hell believers will ever experience, and this world is the only heaven unbelievers will ever experience. We have to trust God because He sees the end from the beginning. He has a reason for everything. In the end, the unjust will be judged and things will be made right.
2007-01-01 01:31:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know where you are coming from.
Just lately this whole Iraq war/execution thing has thrown me for a six. The world does seem to be full of evil and suffering.
As a Christian I have to believe that God hates the evil and suffering as much as we do. The Bible calls the devil the ruler of this world, meaning Earth, and so all the evil comes from him (and human nature) until Jesus returns and puts it right. Also there are many things that our human brain was not created to understand, and I believe that this is one of them. That is where our faith has to come into it.
This morning I lay in the shallow waters at the beach as my children played nearby. The water drifted over me as I looked up at the blue blue sky, and I realised it is moments like those that God created the world. For us to feel joy at the beauty of the world he made for us. And I realised that although war rages around us, and people are inhumane and we feel unsafe, God is with us, wanting us to find some enjoyment and goodness in the world He made for us.
He DID wipe out the world in Noahs time. They must have been pretty bad, to be worse than us huh?
I know in my heart that God is never wrong. Sometimes in this crazy mixedup world it is just hard to see him. I feel for you, I really do. I hope you get the answers you are looking for. Have you joined a church? Sometimes it is enough to get me through.
May God bless you
2007-01-01 01:34:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
So you want a god who has complete control over every thought and action of all people, including yourself.
The true, and evidently secret, nature of God is to create things with an independent free will from Himself. IF (which doesn't seem likely) people want to have a good life with providence and protection from God, it is available to those who put their full trust in Him.
Matt 17:20
20 He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
(from New International Version)
But WHO puts that kind of faith in God? Most just like to complain about God and not do what is good for the world and their loved ones.
2007-01-01 01:31:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Garden of Eden was a paradise on earth yet Adam & Eve show us that it wasn't enough. Mankind wants to do his own thing he resents God as the father that won't let you go out Saturday nights. Mankind wants to do his own thing without God getting in the way saying don't do this or don't do that. "Why don't you let me find out myself?" that's the way most of us think when we're growing up we don't realize that father knows best.
So God let mankind do things his own way, he didn't intervene, he didn't boss mankind around, he didn't say don't do this or don't do that mankind can do whatever he wants. You can accept God, you can reject God, you can follow his law or you can reject it. You can go around mocking him or you can worship him, the choice is yours. it's freewill, that's what you wanted.
The problem is that this freedom comes at a price; everything comes at a price. What you describe is the price of this freedom to do whatever we want whenever we want it; the price we pay for having God out of the equation not intervening saying do this or do that; this is the way we wanted it and now we have it the way we want it we don't like it. You've got take the good with the bad.
The bible talks of a time when this will all come to an end and things will be restored as the way they were in the Garden of Eden. I would think we've suffered enough but it seems we haven't suffered enough. But at least we can look forward to a time in the future when all this suffering will come to an end.
2007-01-01 02:07:49 · answer #7 · answered by middsco 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The angelic conflict is why the world is in turmoil.
We are a part of it .
Jesus Christ was our substitute on the cross He took our place.
the reason being Romans 5:12 Therefore ,just as through one man Adam sin entered into the world ,and death through sin ,and so death spread to all men because all sinned .
Though the human race is condemned ,God has not deserted it.
Anyone can be saved by faith alone in Christ alone".
Satan loses his appeal trial when just one person believes in Jesus Christ.
Each believer is a testimony of God's grace and a witness for the prosecution against satan's accusation.
The world is in a ceaseless invisible warfareEphesians 6:10-17.
There are 7000 promises in the word of God an answer for stress is 1 peter 5:7 God tells us to "cast all your anxiety upon Him because He cares for you.
Take care!
Happy New Year.
2007-01-01 02:56:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was going to pose the same Q. the other day I felt so overwhelmed with what is required of each of us to live a decent lifestyle. My son will graduate from College and as a computer will be outdated so will he when he graduates. technology is hitting us at the speed of light. I'm sure you and I are not the only people who feel that is it really worth it? I live to pay taxes, for what! I honestly feel like selling off everything and vanish start to live my life dream about with a tiny log cabin on a trout lake far far away before i die from stress of it all.
From what I understand we can make it a heaven or we can make it our hell. It is too bad that so many are making it a hell for all of us to see and I don't want to. Stand back,take a deep breath and dive back in is all we can do. I'm only fifty due to stress I feel and look almost 70. Maybe I will opt for the free will lifestyle.
Do not carry the world on your shoulders its way too heavy.
2007-01-01 02:05:20 · answer #9 · answered by BONES 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My dear,
The real universe and real life has not yet started, as this worldly life is a test run of the real one.
We will be evaluated at the day of Judgement and go through a scanning process to get classified as each categories of good and evil. Finally be awarded one of the two places Paradise and Hell.
That will be the start of real eternal life when every one will have a well confirmed justification about his status, based upon the deeds he has done in this temporary test run, either in Paradise or in the Hell. No one will have any doubt.
In this temporary world, our almost 7 to 8 % brain cells are in action others are non-activated like sleeping, as it is only the test run, but in real life of hereafter, 100% of brain cells will be active to know, to enjoy fully the reward of good deeds or feel fully the pain of punishment.
2007-01-01 04:15:18 · answer #10 · answered by Ishfaq A 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a clock that is perpetually 5 minutes behind. It is the nature of the clock. It cannot speed u p or slow down unless I intervene. When I do that, the clock is no longer a clock, but merely a pawn of my playing around.
God set people up with free will. We have chosen our own way, fast or slow. This causes all the symptoms you describe. God could intervene, and when the "time is right' will. If he had set us up differently, we would be so many rocks, clocks, etc. w/ no freedom to be ourselfs. Part of being made in the image of God is having the freewill which causes so many mess ups.
2007-01-01 01:28:22 · answer #11 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋