I always thought God was good, but the Bible tells us about JOB who was plagued, and tormented by the devil while God stood by and did nothing...Children killed, fortune destroyed... Job gets sick, he has to live in the dump...yet God describes Job as good.
Is God a little qwirky, does he(or she) get satidfaction from human suffering?
2007-01-03 11:36:13 · 15 answers · asked by Bill A 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God's true nature was best expressed by Jesus as He healed the multitudes and raised the dead. Jesus never inflicted disease on mortals, He removed the illusion of another cause outside the jurisdiction of divine Love. We have to remember that all that God created was good, and that doesn't change, but human illusions go like a pendulum from evil to good to evil.
God's satisfaction is in the surrender of a human heart to Him, His will.
2007-01-03 11:53:00 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad things happen mainly because humans do bad things. Poverty, abuse, preventable illnesses, global warming...human stuff. War--human. Theft--generally human (though bears and crows enjoy stealing our stuff too. It's not all because of bad people.)
As far as tectonic plate activity, plagues, insect bites, stuff like that...bad things happen. To bad people, good people, all people. One bad gene could give you something as innocuous as a birthmark or as catastrophic as progeria (terrible disease--look it up if you don't know what it is.) It's not God testing you...come on. It doesn't work like that. We live in a wild universe and I wouldn't say things are necessarily happening at random (I mean, there's cause and effect), but there isn't a grand scheme behind it all.
I'm pretty sure Job was just a story. A metaphor about being good even in the face of stuff you don't deserve. Because really, people don't get what they deserve most of the time, good or bad. Life, for EVERYBODY, is about dealing with the unfair stuff and trying to be good and happy and make the world a halfway decent place. God doesn't want people to suffer...but people screw up all the time, do things that they don't think through, and the consequences are devastating. One advance can lead to mountains of waste down the line. Introducing one species to a new region might kill off a dozen species who were there all along.
If humans have free will (which we do), then God can't intervene when we screw up if it'll ruin somebody's chance to choose freely. We have power in our choices, and we have to be careful about what we do because God won't just come thundering in and fix all our messes.
So relax, do the best you can with what you get, and try not to pass on the suffering you receive.
2007-01-03 11:55:42 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No thats God showing other people what happens when people are not right. Look at it, 9/11, after that, people get a clue that God is the almighty, not ourselves, and the people that have the misfortune are many that are going to a better place.
2007-01-03 11:43:08 · answer #3 · answered by Drummer 4 Life 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't hate god or blame him for something. I purely hate you damn religious human beings. no person had to die on a pass so which you would be able to be forgiven. no person has to die in any respect. Your god makes you die and go through. Your god made the genetics that gave you type a million diabetes, not Adam and Eve. have you ever asked your god why you may go through through fact of something somebody else did? of direction not. that could make your god evil, does not it? A god that punishes human beings for issues they don't do could be like...devil. And who made devil? God. Your stupid god does not even exist. Your bible isn't something yet made up thoughts.
2016-12-12 03:08:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, he doesn't get joy out of human suffering. A lot of the trials and hard times people go through (specifically people in bible) are tests of their faith or to in the end make them stronger for what they have been through. Everything God does is to bring glory to him, even though the reason doesn't seem obvious at the time, I don't believe him to be cruel,.
2007-01-03 11:42:50 · answer #5 · answered by KELLY B 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The God described in the Bible is a monster.
"Count all the people God wants you to murder"
http://www.godisimaginary.com/i22.htm
2007-01-03 11:39:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, God doesn't find misfortune funny. These things are apart of the human experience.
2007-01-03 11:40:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe they are just sharing the suffering of Christ on the Cross and will be rewarded in Heaven. whadda yo think?
2007-01-03 11:41:18 · answer #8 · answered by Donald C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope.
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When good people have bad things happen is that God laughing?
That in the Hindu faith is called "Lali" .
2007-01-03 11:39:23 · answer #9 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's God!!! LOL, what a mean *****; eh! I think it's where I get my sense of humour from.
2007-01-03 11:39:00 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋