I think the reason is because it's a test.
God wants to test us.
Also, people have free will. God can't force people to be good. People have to make their own choices, and if God interferred with a child being rapped, then he wouldn't be giving the killer free will and that's very important.
We have to learn to be good on our own, without constant supervision from God.
Can you truly say a person is good if he's being watched 24/7?
Of course not.
God does not interfere because he wants to test people.
Also, dying is not the worst thing that can happen to people. The kids who are Christian that are raped and killed will be in heaven Forever.
People need to understand that.
May Jesus bless you.
2007-01-27 19:19:41 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I also want to add that Satan hates God and he puts doubt in your heart.
You must have faith in Jesus no matter what so-called evidence surfaces against it.
The devil puts doubts in your heart.
It's all the work of Satan.
2007-01-27 19:24:45 · update #1
"Testing" implies being unsure of what may result from such a test.
God is supposed to know everything.
Why doesn't he already know our inner character without "testing" us?
2007-01-27 19:25:40 · answer #1 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is not to encourage rape and kidnap, but rather the stories about the rapes and kidnaps etc are there to make the point that things were not going well at all. If you read the book of Judges, there is the constant refrain "in those days Israel had no king and everyone did whatever they liked". One of the main themes in that book is the downward spiral into anarchy and social degeneration in that period. The writer seems to be saying that having a monarch to rule over them would be preferable to the situation then existing. God keeps sending them judges to try and sort them out, but the judges themselves often have their own problems, make istakes, and mess up. And although the person writing judges seems to be of the opinion that if only they had a king to govern them, then things would be better, when you read the books of kings and chronicles you see that in general the kings also were a bad lot, appart from the occasional not so bad or even good king. The kings of Israel and Judah were not absolute monarchs like those of the other nations, but they were also under the law of God, but even then they often flouted those laws and acted like despotic dictators. But i suppose it could be argued that even a dictator is preferable to anarchy (compare Saddam's Iraq with Bush's). The Bible records all these things, not to prescribe them to us as a model for us to follow, but so that we can learn from the mistakes of others. People sometimes think there is a political solution, some kind of *ism or *cracy, to problems that are really to do with the evil in human nature. It is only when we let God be the king in our lives that we can behave in altruistic instead of selfish ways.
2016-05-24 08:04:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it's a "test". This notion is what makes so many "unbelievers" angry at God. The notion that God would use such cruel tests turns people away from God. I believe free will plays a large part in the scenarios, but free will has its consequences and we all suffer the consequences of those choices made with our free will. When "bad things happen to good people" it is merely a consequence of cause and effect. We are all accountable for our actions (we reap what we sow) so when something bad happens it is a direct consequences of our own actions, usually from a previous lifetime, although sometimes it is instant karma. Look into the universal law of karma and reincarnation and if you examine it closely and consider it with an open mind, it makes the most sense to explain what usually seems unfair in life. Life is fair and God is just.
2007-01-27 19:46:02 · answer #3 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Polly Klass was kidnapped and murdered. If her murder was supposed to be a test, for whom was it a test of? I guess she really got a raw deal too, being born for the sole purpose of dying just to teach someone a lesson. Hardly a "good" thing.
Can a person claim to be good if they believe that if they are not good they get cooked for all eternity? That's not good either.
And what about non-Christian kids who are raped and killed/ Sucks to be them I guess?
As for "free will", supposedly God interferes all the time with people's "free will", sending them messages or visions or other goofy things. This free will is so precious that God is willing to sacrifice untold numbers of innocent people, yet to hear believers talk they have God tinkering with their lives all the time.
The OP sounds pretty on the surface, but a critical look at it turns it very ugly indeed. Almost like a justification. Sick.
2007-01-27 19:34:45 · answer #4 · answered by Scott M 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
are we but rats in a maze? What sick twisted god would put people through these things (and not only child rape but things like the holocaust, WW 1+2, endless other wars, natural disasters, cancer, the list goes on)? And for more than 2000 years no less? When will it end? Is this entire world mean as a 'good christian filter'?
Look, I know you're just trying to explain these horrible things happening but this is not the way.
ps. what happens to the non-christian kids?
2007-01-28 00:28:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
OMG you say the kids who are Christian .....be in heaven forever. Does that mean all the other ones who are abused are not. So lets say a non christian kid is born, abused, raped for the sake of the test (God's test) and at the end of it he/she gets what, sent to hell. Wow whatever you really gotta think about how it truly sounds when you say stuff like that. Can you not in your head see the reality of this and how it doesnt make any sense. At the end of all things if FREEWILL is the only thing stopping all this nonsence then why not TAKE IT Away. Simple answer that could have saved us for 2000 years. God cannot blame us then can he nor test us nor judge us.
2007-01-27 19:27:29 · answer #6 · answered by CelticFairy 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I look at Man as a spinning top. God made the top, he put the string around the top and he spun the top. God made it so that he has knowledge of where the top is going but cannot/will not stop the projected path of the top. If God interferred with that then it would wipe out the idea of man's freewill to accept or reject him. Man is responsible for evil as the flip side of good. Everything is in balance and without evil there would be no good and visa versa....
2007-01-27 19:31:14 · answer #7 · answered by therazorsx 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You state the "the kids who are christian that are raped and killed will be in heaven forever". Are you implying that the non-christian children that are killed are not going to heaven?
That does not sound like something Jesus would say, think or believe.
2007-01-27 19:39:44 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You and most of the folks that responded are assuming that man has the ability to look to God for salvation, and that he is not inherently sinful. I leave you to your confusion or whatever satisfaction you have with your answers. I start with total inability and a sin nature. Way different outcome.
2007-01-28 11:22:07 · answer #9 · answered by ccrider 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God doesn't test people in this way. These things happen in the world because there is real and tangible evil in the world. Evil persons, evil governments, evil things.
2007-01-27 19:27:57 · answer #10 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You know, this is one of the main reasons I don't worship your God.
Any "Almighty God" that would let little children be abused and raped, is frankly not worthy of my worship! Your God is far worse then your Satan.
I don't want to have anything to do with either of them to be honest.
2007-01-27 19:31:00 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋