Why did God create microorganisms and other diseases? Why does He want people to suffer?

Answer 1

God doesn't want people to have to suffer, but if they don't they will not learn to depend on Him. Only by going through hardships do we grow closer to Him.

Answer 2

This question will alway be raised if people don't accept reality. Theists have not accepted Objective Reality, God springs forth from the primitive limbic system of your brain, the last remnants of your reptillion past. The area where our raw emotions reside, including the irrational belief systems.

The 'religious' experience is triggered by deep depression, starvation, near death, or other highly charged situations. The 'born-again' christian phenomena has a scientific basis....yes, your limbic system. Why has man evolved this mechanism you might ask? Simple...it was a survival mechanism of our cave man ancestors to cope with a hostile and unknown universe.

The cerebral cortex is a more recent development. Here is where our rational and logical thought processes take place. It is here that the atheists have found their basis in reality.

In reality, there is no sentient, omnipresent, omnipotent supernatural being, supernatural entity or force....therefore all the inequities and misery of the world will always persist, some will have good things happen to them and some not, some will blame the invisible entity but objective reality wins all the time....no matter how hard some try to get that limbic brain of theirs to work...sorry

And why does 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 3

A criterion for existence in this physical realm is that a seemingly opposite also exist. However the two opposites are actually one.

For example, agony and ecstasy are the same. They are both expressions of a type of emotional contentment, just at opposite ends of the spectrum. They depend on each other to exist.

One of my favorite truths is that the Heights of our happiness are directly proportional to the Depths of our sadness.

Although I don’t believe in a “personal” God, to answer your question using your belief system, God only wants us to suffer unpleasantness so that we can also experience and appreciate pleasantness.

Answer 4

Suffering is a human concept.. the greatness of god cannot rationalized using our tools. And it is an arrogant thought that we are what creation is for, what if creation was for the microorganisms?

Answer 5

Well why are their bad guys? Why are there deaths and tradgedies? Why do people judge other based on someone's skin and saying that someone else who is just as different but they accept them?

Because it's the good and the bad. Without the bad then we wouldn't know what is good in the world. Yes it's unfortunate that people die from diseases I mean someone I knew recently died of breast cancer. But it makes us realize the good things in life, how much we loved that person, and gives us a better sense of our life and how we see it. What is good without the bad?

Answer 6

God doesn't exist; bacteria and other detrimental microorganisms are still living things; this means our fear/hatred of such organisms is a matter of conflicting interest. We both want to continue living, but one has to proliferate at the other's expense, thus we can not live harmoniously together.

Subtract god out of your "logic" and maybe, just maybe, you might see things more clearly.

Answer 7

Check out...

Can the Global Suffering Be Avoided?
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on Suffering
http://youtube.com/watch?v=D-2IIEh6fu4

Perceiving Reality
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Answer 8

God create all things in life , but you choose to be ill , with you thoughts , your bad attitude , your diet .... God is Love and not giving suffer to people , you choose to be suffered ... everything you got it in your life , it's origin came from your thoughts , monitor your thoughts and then you life will change with your changing of your thoughts
Love 2 you

Answer 9

to respond to this, i charm to what Thomas Aquinas called contingency. actual there are issues that ensue by skill of necessity, and by skill of contingency. something out of necessity could be like Christ death on the bypass. something that occurs by skill of contingency is something that occurs autonomously interior particular circumstances, which god facilitates So case in point the earth has existence on it because of the gravitational pull of the solar, and due to the certainty that it is on the spectacular distance faraway from the solar while it formed 4 billion years in the past. So actual issues ensue interior the organic international automously below the auspices of the regulations of nature. comparable factor with the form of microorganisms that have ailment. They develop below particular circumstances, and thats why they are the way they are Plus, basically because of the fact they seem to be a detriment to three livings, would not advise that they are undesirable for different organisms. And basically because of the fact they reason ailments, would not advise they are undesirable in and of themselves. possibly its a stable factor they reason ailment to bolster our immune structures interior the long-term. in case you prefer god to get rid of each ailment and each undesirable factor, your actual asking him to micromanage the international, that's what he does no longer do.............. @Questioner returned nevertheless, that appeals to God Micromanaging each little thing interior the universe. Its like asking "does no longer or no longer that's less difficult for God to create people who can in user-friendly terms do stable, and not be waiting to do evil?" that should basically make him a "dictator" like what many Atheists say he's.........

Answer 10

Because there is no God as mentioned in the bible. The earth has evolved from millions of years ago and what is...is what is. No one is sitting inside gates of gold and angels saying, I think I'll make AIDS cause everyone has sinned, that's just plain crazy.