If not, then are you more moral than god?
2007-01-16 03:02:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
How do you know there was no pain. It was a flood. The normal expectation is that you will drown. Anyway, if you don't like this example, how about any of the other atrocities? Would you have done them?
2007-01-16 03:09:16 · update #1
So would you have done it?
2007-01-16 03:10:39 · update #2
The bible says that all living things that breathed air except for those on the ark died.
2007-01-16 03:11:34 · update #3
ay hev e bettır karakter den yor gad
2007-01-19 11:22:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Just because God created the world doesn't mean God is actively controlling each of the events in the world. God didn't drown babies in a flood any more than God raped women and children when evil men were doing this.
The view of pantheism, while popular, doesn't make much sense. God has given us free will, what good is free will if God orchestrates and controls all movement?
Heh, heh, it took me a while to realize you meant THE flood. That's a much more complicated answer. It involves the idea that ALL of us deserve to die, and that by Grace alone are we saved. Back then, grace was not available to all.
Morality though, that is not for US to decide, morality comes directly from God and as such, what we would or wouldn't do in a situation is not for us to say.
2007-01-16 11:15:34 · answer #2 · answered by btpage0630 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. My sense of morality tells me that it is not moral to drown over 99% of the world's population just because things didn't work out as I'd hoped.
2007-01-16 11:24:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
This question keeps coming up. Next time try using the search function here on Y!A.
The short answer is that God has the right to "play god" with human lives. That is his job (He IS god, after all, by definition).
So, why can't God decide how long we live, and when we are to die? It is his universe, after all, and his rules.
Besides, don't babies go to heaven?
2007-01-16 12:46:40 · answer #4 · answered by Randy G 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, lets look at this from God's perspective okay? To God, is physical death really such a huge tragedy? I mean, He knows His plan, He knows we're all going to be resurrected and physically live again.
The kind of death that is a huge tragedy to God though, would be spiritual death. Or that big separation from Him that people create by their poor choices.
Now if He knows the hearts and intention of everybody in a society. And if He knows that if they keep on living (physically) that they're just going to keep on committing spiritual suicide and keep on further condemning themselves, and He knows those babies raised in such circumstances would grow up to commit spiritual suicide too. - from His point of view, isn't it more merciful to pull them out of that situation?
2007-01-16 11:44:32 · answer #5 · answered by daisyk 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I know it sounds cruel - but look at this way - He put down his hand and took them home - No pain No suffering - A litlte wet maybe - but No pain
I never said I did not like your example
eldad9 - apparently its the best way to die - acording to people brought back from the brink
2007-01-16 11:07:36 · answer #6 · answered by Gezza D 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
> "No pain No suffering"
You have no idea what it means to drown.
2007-01-16 11:12:33 · answer #7 · answered by eldad9 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
PLEASE READ THE BIBLE AND THEN MAKE YOUR QUERY!!!
2007-01-16 11:07:26 · answer #8 · answered by Gabriel Revelations 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋