is God fair?

Answer 1

Bad things happen to good people all the time. When the tectonic plates crash into each other causing human calamity, they don't worry about Karma, good and bad, evil and riteousness. Life's paths are made up of randon circumstances, some predictable and some not. Most religious people will state that god has a 'bigger' plan for them and humans in general, that we can't know the 'big picture.' Most say there can't be good unless we know or experience the depths of evil.

Is it fair to have predation, disease, deformities, child rape, parasites and evil in the world? If the answer is yes, then with god(s) like that, who need them?

Answer 2

That would depend on if you believe in him in the first place.
From my point of view if there is a God then it would exsit as an entity that would affect us and we will affect it as well. Whatever its "decisions" may be it will be the results of our own doing. For example if God is A and his decisions lets call it B, human beings are C and our decisions are D. Whatever D is will affect B through A and B will affect C. So it all goes in a cycle.
That is from what I see the only logical way of explaining the existence of God and how he affects us and perhaps our thinking. Because there are so many other things out there that humans cannot comprehend with their senses and plus everything in the univerise is possibly all linked together somehow in an indirect or direct method so you can't really just say if something is "fair" or not. As far as I see God's decisions are probably based on yours.

Answer 3

I don't think the question should be if God is "fair" or not, the question really is this: What did someone do to deserve fairness from, what some believe, is a perfect, all-knowing being, such as God? There have been several times in mine, as well as everyone's lives that you stop to ask yourself, "Why me?". But I believe that the question that we should really be asking ourselves is, "Why NOT me?". What makes any one specific person so special, so deserving of God's grace, his/her "fairness", that nothing bad should ever befall us? For that matter, what has the entire human race done to impress God enough to deserve his/her kindness? I'm certainly not saying that we deserve vengence in any way, but I don't think that we as a race, or any one person, should be arrogant enough to question the Holy Judgement of God. Even if it doesn't seem as though there is a point to what happens to us at that very moment, if we look hard enough, there is almost always a reasonable explanation to everything.

Answer 4

Not in the 'human' sense.
Suppose our little finger of left hand and the right thumb get the same type of injury simultaneously, requiring some bandage etc.
Are we fair, when we pamper the little finger with a good packaging, where as the thumb gets least attention , minimum bandage, and more 'hard work' in its 'quota'....
There is a cellular level intelligence, but it cannot argue its case. And the 'we' don't bother about being 'fair' as long as we are aware that both, the finger and the thumb 'belong' to us, as a part of 'us' !

Answer 5

If He is the creator of all things then He gets to decide what is fair. We who pop up for a such a small moment in this life try to act as if we can comprehend more than He. As if we were smarter, more righteous than He. We didn't have any power coming into this world and believe it or not we don't have the power to determine the creator of the universe unfair - and have that statement be true.

Answer 6

Life is not "fair" but God (who knows our every move before we make it) is always fair. Sometimes in life we feel deprived of the things we want or the relationships we yearn for. What do we do? We ask "Why God"? I have learned lately that MY wants & demands often get in the way of God's plan for me. Alot of the suffering I endure is self inflicted. For instance, I wanted to change job positions really badly a few years ago. I was teaching Art and decided that I wanted to go into our Special Education department. I was tired of feeling like an oddball, being left out, looked over, etc. People really think Art teachers just aren't as developed professionally I guess. So I took the job and I turned out to be the best teacher they had in SPED that year. I was even pursued for that position again. I now had the acceptance from my coworkers and felt as an equal. The transition was tough on me but I managed. My boss (a month into it) begged me to now go back to Art b/c the new teacher (whose degree was in the new job I took) was struggling with discipline. I was caught in a struggle deep within my soul. I had fought so hard to keep the new position that I had fogged up the real issue. I mourned the loss of seeing children's faces light up when I praised their artwork. I knew that I could do much more good in my initial position ....WHERE GOD HAD PLACED ME TO BEGIN WITH! Sometimes what we want in life is not our destiny so we blame God ....when we are truly the ones doing this to ourselves.

Answer 7

The answer depends on your belief system. I am Hindu, and our belief system (in a very condensed form) is that we have earned our just rewards due to our actions. If we act as a good human being then the reward of our acts will be good and we could receive it in this life or another (we believe in reincarnation). If we act badly we get that in return.

Think of it life a credit/debit system; our good acts give us credits or bad acts give us debits. If at the end of life there is no zero balance its carried forward to the next life. So even if you have been the best possible human in this life and you still have bad things happen to you, its probably because of the bad acts that you performed in you previous life that you have to pay for in this life.

Hindu philosophy can be difficult to grasp so if you feel confused its OK.

Answer 8

God is GOOD - All the time.

Fairness --- no ... not all things are created equal. I believe that the Church (Catholic) makes up the body of Christ. Simply looking at the body, it is evident that not all body parts are created equal. Specifically, let's look at the hand.

Look at your hand. Is your thumb equal to your index finger??? No, they are not equal. The thumb is shorter, but greater in helping the hand achieve stuff like controlling fire, using tools, and building. Certainly, if my thumb was cut off I would suffer. My index finger is longer and good at flexibility. This helps my index finger work together with the thumb to achieve controlling fire, using tools, and building. Again, if my index finger were cut off, I would suffer.

God's fairness is not the issue ... it's God's goodness that allows the differences to complement each other and to acheive the greatness God has for each one of us.

Answer 9

I believe that the way Christians view him he is not fair. But what is fair I mean really is anything "fair"

Answer 10

Fairness is a uniquely human concept. But God is just.