Does the potential of a possible chance at salvation outweigh all of that suffering?
Why didn't God create them with such a great start like he does Americans?
God ALLOWED them to be born in misery and live miserable lives and if they thank him for that THEN they get rewarded.... right...
2007-01-22 02:00:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I thought you didn't believe in God, dude.
Yes...it should definitely outweigh what they're living in now, I would think in comparison. Wouldn't you hope that they would receive a reward like that in the end of their short lives?
They deserve something nice...like...salvation, as you put it.
2007-01-22 02:08:15 · answer #1 · answered by mom 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sho-Nuff. Answer me one question. How long is this life? What's the average in America, 75 years? How does that compare to eternity? Is it even measurable, relatively speaking?
Perhaps the main purpose of life is simply to get a physical body and experience mortality.
You seem to have serious concerns about the gospel of Christianity as it is taught in the "mainstream" Christian churches. So do I.
You should do some looking into something that claims to be the restored truth and is radically different from the illogical beliefs that many "mainstream Christians" believe.
I could be wrong...but you do seem to be searching for truth, or else you wouldn't be asking questions every day?
2007-01-22 10:07:43 · answer #2 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the beginning God completely sustained His creation without blemish. That’s why it was perfect. He held every atom together in a perfect state. He kept the planets in their orbits. He kept animals from tripping and breaking their necks. He did not allow people to suffer and die.
Deuteronomy 8:4 gives us a little glimpse of how things might have been in the original creation. “Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.” God is omnipotent and perfectly capable of sustaining and protecting his creation.
When Adam sinned, however, the Lord cursed the universe. In essence there was a change and along with that change God seemingly took away a little bit of his sustaining power and allowed things like suffering and death into His creation. Now He permits bad things to happen—and this is a reminder that sin has consequences and that the world needs a Savior. Romans 8:22 says, “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”
God took pleasure in all of His creation ("http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=revelation+4:11&version=NKJV"), but He loved people most of all. He allowed the created universe to deteriorate so we would see the consequences of our sin. If we did not see the consequences of our sin, we would never see that we need salvation from our sin, and we would never accept His offer of mercy for our sin. Most people easily recognize that there is a problem in the world. This can be used to show them that there is one who has overcome this problem of death and suffering—Jesus Christ.
2007-01-22 10:26:41 · answer #3 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have been over this a hundred times, and you obviously don't want answers. You want agreement.
Our spirits come here because they want to. Bacteria
and viruses are part of the natural order of things in the material dimension. They help to keep the ecosystem in check. What some understand as the food chain.
One thing devours another, and this keeps any one type of life from dominating all the others.
2007-01-22 10:06:59 · answer #4 · answered by THE NEXT LEVEL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You act as if life isn't a gift. I would say that everyone has there problems, although mine and a lot of America's are not the same as those in Africa doesn't mean that ours are less hurtful and full of suffering. You act as if there isn't a plan, a reason for everything. I say that you are right, God put them in there place, but he also made them specifically for their place.
2007-01-22 11:25:42 · answer #5 · answered by Zach 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guns Germs and Steel
by Jared Diamond
Explains why Europe and Asia is in a better starting position then Africa or South America after the last Ice Age.
So we must look to science and reasoning for an explanation as to "why American kids are better off".
Sorry Gods got nothing to do with nothing.
2007-01-22 10:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Some of the most humble people on earth are the poor,it sure seems that you ain`t poor.
People like you continually ask what is God doing about this or that,why don`t you do something instead of constantly moaning.
2007-01-22 10:05:03 · answer #7 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, Satan is so powerful to you guys, why did he allow these things to happen? Satan had the same opportunity as God did to turn things around for them didn't he? He has more power than God and he's so much better in your eyesight right? So why blame God and not Satan? Look at it honestly if you must look at it at all.
2007-01-22 10:05:23 · answer #8 · answered by Heaven's Messenger 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes.
life on earth is fleeting.
life with God can be eternal.
they are not afflicted because of God.
God will see them through it and take them home to be with Him.
Human afflictions are not created by God, but by Satan and man alike.
2007-01-22 10:13:31 · answer #9 · answered by Chef Bob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
without evil there is not good. You have to know bad in order to appreciate the good.
You can't take credit for anything good in life and not take responsibility for the bad. Stop blaming God when you screw up and take some blame yourself.
2007-01-22 10:04:50 · answer #10 · answered by Chrissy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋