2007-02-17 15:29:57 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I wanted to answer something witty and scathing, but Deacon Knight and Dave beat me to it. I agree with them completely.
2007-02-17 15:46:00 · answer #1 · answered by Jensenfan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your talking about something you don't understand apparently. Genetic flaws were not created by God. You need to understand dominant and recessive genes and basic biology.
When the gene pool is perfect you could marry your sister or brother. When you continue on and mix gene pools you have to start getting further and further away from similar genes. Currently you are at odds to have a deformed child if you marry a cousin. Soon it will be 2nd cousin once removed and so on and so on, thus laws have changed. More duplication more room for error. Maybe eventually you will have to be tested before you can marry, oops they thought of that when disease outbreaks were rampant. I am using the bloodline marriages as an example BTW, not condoning it.
It was intelligently designed that way b/c we were intelligently designed perfect. WE are the ones who brought sin into the world. Sin (sexual immorality and others such as uncleanliness) has also caused diseases that effect childbirth and the unborn.
Poor question in my opinion
God Bless
2007-02-17 23:44:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I love these rationalizing idiots who always chalk up every human misfortune as "punishment for sin."
We are supposed to believe that a supremely intelligent being capable of designing everything from quarks and nebula, to DNA and planets, spends it's time devising new ways to torment the human species (which it proclaims to love by the way) with mutating viruses like AIDS?
It also likes to teach families lessons about overcoming adversity by strickening innocent children with brain cancer, or reminding us of it's great power by washing tens of thousands of people away in tsunamis. Then we have those wonderful earthquakes that crush innocent babies (of course they don't all die straight away, some starve to death under the rubble.)
Now, or course, the Christians will tell you right away that these aren't acts of god, they're acts of NATURE! Is there a difference? Doesn't god = nature. Or, they'll tell you that Satan causes the Earthquakes. Well, who made Satan, and WHY???
The planet was a paradise prior to sin, so earthquakes, volcanoes, and hurricanes HAVE to be part of the punishment plan.
Of course, the ESCAPE from all this is Jesus Christ, so all the death, suffering and pain is supposed to be overlooked because if you give yourself to Christ, you get a second chance at a life that is FAR better than this one (which coincidentally seems to be a FANTASTIC control mechanism) but it doesn't say much for the poor people who are experiencing the pain and suffering, sometimes for DECADES (because ostensibly they too are learning wonderful lessons in humility and perseverance.)
And all this supposedly because a couple of stupid people (who by the way DIDN'T KNOW RIGHT FROM WRONG) didn't listen to god 6000 years ago, and he's still irritated so we have to keep paying, and paying, and paying, until some fantasy day in the future when he'll finally grow tired of tormenting us, and send his son back to collect up all the deluded fools who've kept believing this nonsense story all these years.
If this is by DESIGN, it's the most UNINTELLIGENT thing in the universe!
2007-02-17 23:53:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
If I was a Christian I would pray that the babies of those who blame this on sin turned out deformed but as a Atheist I could never wish that on an innocent child.
The thought that you would say that a genetic disease or deformity is a result of sin proves that your god should not be worshiped by any moral person. Any god that would condemn a child to a life of suffering because of some sin of someone else should be shunned as the sadist that he is.
2007-02-17 23:36:12 · answer #4 · answered by Dave P 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, gentic diseases and deformities are good examples of the corruption that entered this world when mankind rebelled against our Creator. We were not even supposed to die before that happened.
Romans 5:12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned--
2007-02-17 23:34:54 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Human has perfect beginning but due to the inherited sinned by Adam and Eve that is the reason human was not able to maintain perfections but will die according to it.
2007-02-17 23:37:33 · answer #6 · answered by Harvard 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no, they are good examples of the corruption of man. We were perfect until we fell to sin. All the bad in this world is the effect of a fallen world.
2007-02-17 23:35:05 · answer #7 · answered by malsvb6 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You make an interesting point. Did god do that deformity stuff and why?
2007-02-17 23:33:28 · answer #8 · answered by valcus43 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
you have no idea what ********* those people can be when faced with this question--they will blame the baby or the parents or try to say God meant it in a good way to teach them a lesson
2007-02-17 23:39:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, they are examples of what it means to live in a world that is not perfect. Nothing more, nothing less.
2007-02-17 23:33:32 · answer #10 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋