Why does God allow free will?
2007-01-05 15:18:46
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answered by Anonymous
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Your question really is: Why did God create suffering. This is my view, or today's view of my view.
Poor people exist as a test to the wealthy and themselves. Will we be filled with envy and maliciousness? Will the wealthy give and give until there are no more poor people? (We're not doing too well, are we?)
Why did God create life and death, for without life, there would be no suffering, and without death there would be no release from the suffering?
No matter. Life is here. Suffering is here. Let's just help each other get through it, and God willing, In Shah Allah, we will all grow as humans, helping each other every chance we get.
Small pox was created so that people could find the cure, so that people could come close to God by being patient in suffering, by helping the sick.
2007-01-13 06:03:17
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answered by Anonymous
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I don't particularly buy into the theology that sin alone created suffering. Sin does not create; it destroys. Only God creates, and destruction is therefore evil (unless it's with the intention of rebuilding, which is what death is all about anyway).
I have a slightly different intepretation for the cause of suffering.
You've heard the expression "every black cloud has a silver lining", right? I believe God's goal is not necessarily to minimize sin but to maximize goodness. God keeps sin around for its silver linings. There have been so many times (that I've seen myself) that bad deeds and events yielded very good results. For example, I failed out of a college only to discover that the major and the girl of my dreams were at another. My best friend totalled his car (a rare sports car and his obsession) only for the whole thing to put his life into a much more mature perspective.
2007-01-05 15:31:32
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answered by kevinthenerd 3
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Disease was not part of God's creation, it is one of the malfunctions in thie world that resulted from sin. God created everything perfect and good, but because of our sin everything has been blighted. We look forward to the day when God will put an end to all that is bad, and set up his perfect kingdom, where there will be no sickness or death, selfishness or crime, where the lion will lie down with the lamb and eat grass like an ox, where the little child will play with the cobra in safety. This is the future that God plans to bring about, a world restored to perfection and harmony.
2007-01-05 15:55:39
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answered by Beng T 4
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Because the large pox went out of fashion.
2007-01-05 15:28:35
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answered by You Should Be Pied 2
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Most of small pox is created by the vaccine.
2007-01-05 15:19:06
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answered by Anonymous
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This is a trick question. Actually, Satan created small pox.
2007-01-05 15:23:50
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answered by i♥sf 5
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so that the people that don't have small pox can take of the one's who have it
2007-01-05 15:19:49
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answered by yellabanana77 4
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The writer allowed smallpox and plague to adapt by technique of itself because of the fact the international became becoming to be over popoulated and at that factor the earth might desire to not sustain that existence. as quickly as the inhabitants became lower back under administration, the writer allowed people to locate a treatment. Now that we've technologies to take care of extra existence, there is far less want for plagues and organic desasters to maintain the inhabitants under administration. even with the certainty that ailments like AIDS, and poultry Flu serve the comparable purpose, they don't look to be as sensible as smallpox and bubonic plague because of the fact they don't might desire to be. Our skill to smash those ailments became intentional. or perhaps not? i don't be attentive to. Evolution seems rather in all probability to me. yet i've got self assurance that there might desire to be something that motives issues. ???
2016-12-15 16:54:40
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answered by ? 4
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God did not create small pos.It is created by virus.
2007-01-13 13:25:24
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answered by cupid 3
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Probably as a way for the noble european christians to clear out the heathen natives of north america.
2007-01-05 15:24:11
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answered by Dethruhate 5
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