2007-02-05 22:54:02 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
we live in a fallen world where bad things can happen to anyone. it's a personal choice to be good or wicked. but have you given God the credit for the good things that happen?
2007-02-05 22:59:28 · answer #1 · answered by ekduin 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
If God made everything good how would we recognize that somethign is good? It is because we have bad in the world that we are able to trully apreciated what GOOD really is. God owes us no explanation as to how or why he made us. He made all of us with free natural will. We can choose our paths. I believe (in the case of Job especially) he allows things to happen in order to see if we will call on him for help and aid, or remain faithful to him. DO we have faith that those who leave this earth may have a purpose in the spirit. DO we have faith that God will work things out and let us see our loved ones again.
2007-02-05 23:09:05 · answer #2 · answered by david s 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I have to give my ha'pence worth, since it's an open question. There is no god. What god would give children cancer, or malaria, or allow them to be abused; why would the same god allow the wicked to prosper and the hard-working and honest to struggle? The world is a cruel and dangerous place and we have no-one looking over us. It takes some getting used to, but when you do it gives you the resolve to tackle the world's problems head on and to take nothing for granted. Just remember - there is no god and there never has been.
2007-02-05 23:03:49 · answer #3 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 2⤊ 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.
2007-02-06 10:40:15 · answer #4 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why doesn't God make everyone good? Because His ways are not our ways and so because of that we will never fully understand why many things happen. Don't forget that when God made Adam and Eve He made them perfect but because of the Devil man have sinned and now evil is in the world, not because of God but because of Lucifer. God is good not evil. God is love not hate. Stop blaming God for everything.
2007-02-05 23:07:41 · answer #5 · answered by sweetdivine 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because god is a fairytale that helps christians sleep. We still have a few bugs in the system from billions of years of evolution, that might be what creates the scum of the earth
2007-02-05 23:07:33 · answer #6 · answered by MaxPower 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All things happen for a reason. We just don't understand why. We cannot think and understand like God.
2007-02-06 00:15:41 · answer #7 · answered by jasmin2236 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry , I want to bring another answer to one of your questions ''if the children could be killed for disobeying their parents-in Bible''.-I think that first -it reffers to the Old Testament (a historical period of the bad people of Israel , punished by God)
secondly...As I know the way Jesus expresses and the other prophets...it refferes to adult -children (son and daughters )acctualy -it doesn't reffer to the relathionship between father-son , it generally reffers..to the children of comunity (the way we would say ''the children of our country'')-because they didn't obey to their parents -meaning the patriarhs , priests , prophets...who gave the comunity the will of God (God used to talk to them )..Something like this..so actually refferes to the fact that peoples'children of Israel ..didn't obey to the will of God (from commandements )..and there was a period when God ordered to be killed...You know when Jesus came..they were abot to kill a woman (a whore)with stones...This is ..the woman was the ''child'', and his parents were Abraham , Noah, Isaiah , and all the other from the begining..Israel used to call in Bible ... Abraham ...and Adam ..their ''father''.I don't know their situation..nowadays...
Reffering to this question from above., Yes God does..make everyone good...Reffering to children ...they could pay for the sins of their parents..the way ..the whole mankind has payed for the sin of Eve and Adam (who ate the forbidden fruit).
But ..there is a GREAT BUT , ...it results even from the Old Testament..that if the children obey God and follow Him, God forgive them...and gave them hapiness, but if the children of the children sin again ..they shall pay for the sin of their grandparents...Something like this...
Generally speaking , neither one of us lives in paradise...Sooner or later, we are tried by satan , and we have to proove our strong faith in God, meaning, that we believe He is right, good, etc..
2007-02-06 07:56:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why didn't He make you good? Maybe He did but you made the choice to be bad instead. Stop blaming others for your VERY EVIL heart.
2007-02-06 15:33:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is a test for us,
God (Allah) says in the Holy Qur'an,
"Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, "We believe", and that they will not be tested?
We did test those before them, and Allah will certainly know those who are true from those who are false"
2007-02-05 23:11:48 · answer #10 · answered by Uthman A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋