How can God be so mean?

Question

According to the Bible, NOTHING can happen at all, unless God wills it (or allows it).

With this in mind, being that God is doing nothing to stop war, that means he is allowing it, it is his will for this?

Why does God support war, thusly so? Anyone else get angry that if there is a God, he does nothing about this? Am I the only one that is about ready to just not even worship God for being so uncaring, or maybe lazy?

I have had enough of not only war, but a God that refuses to do anything at all about it!

Answer 1

He's had a lot of practice, and he's gettin Good!

Answer 2

Think of it like...a balance. Like Yin and Yang. You can't have one without the other, because then that would cause total chaos.

It's a bit overwhelming, if you try to think of all the evil happening in the world. But...just...alright, look at a child. They're so innocent, so pure, so free. If God was as lazy and as uncaring as you claim him to be, how could he create such beautiful creatures?

You're mad and angry for all the evil that's going on, that's understandable. But I think its a bit...unrealistic...of you to blame God. God doesn't MAKE people go out there and fight wars. It's people that make people go out and fight wars.

Stop thinking of all the bad, and just focus on the good. There will always be wars going on around you. But life is too short to be constantly worrying about all the evil in the world.

Answer 3

I was with one of the first groups in Iraq as the war started and i can tell you what GOD did, GOD protected our unit. yes people were lost and it was hard to take, it still is but to blame GOD for a War started by man is not applying the scripture properly. Freedom of will is the one thing GOD gave humans that has cause us all the most trouble.

Answer 4

Thanks For Your Question :)

Well of course God could stop all the war at once but he doesn't want so, because simply God put us here on earth to test us and he gave us a free will to do anything (including wars) if God stopped any war then he stopped testing us, and of course that's not gonna happen

so that means people are the ones who could stop wars not God and if they did that mean that they succeeded in one of many tests

Answer 5

Many Christians have the mistaken idea that once they commit to Jesus. life will be smooth sailing from that day forward. This is not the case. It is true that walking with Christ will help us avoid many of the problems we used to face, we are still going to experience what the Bible call "trials."
Trials may come in a form of crisis, a sudden ill-ness, the loss of a loved one, or some drastic change in your life. This may cause you to wonder if you have angered God or if he has left you. But God does not experience trials cause he wants to see us suffer. He allows these difficulties into our lives to help us grow spiritually- to learn to live by faith, not by feelings.
Trials sharpen our faith, Help us comfort others(experiencing suffering deepens our compasion for others who suffer) and test our foundation ( if you say you have faith he wants to see if you can go through suffering and see if you can stay faithfull to him).

These passages will help you:
1 Peter 1:3-7
2 Corinthians 1:3-7
2 Corinthians 4:7-18
Luke 6:47-49
Mark 5:35-41
John 14:1-7
Hope this helps!!

Answer 6

First, you're assuming that there is only one God.
Second, you're assuming that such a God would willingly override man's free will.
Third, you're assuming that the life you're spening here and now is the most important one.

One cannot live in a perpetual state of bliss and still know the difference between good and evil; happiness and sadness; pain and freedom from pain; sickness and health, etc. If you don't experience war or tragedy, you don't know the meaning of peace.

Personally, I think war is stupid, but it still can be learned from.

Answer 7

Umm...no. People have free will. If you wanna cry about how wars start, etc, why not blame the people that actually start the wars or cause hatred. Maybe God isn't there to police everyone. Maybe He's there for guidance and not to intervene in people's stupidity all the time. You have no idea what He has stopped or what He has allowed so why cry about it? Blame people for wars and blame people for not ending them. Live in reality, it's nice here.

Answer 8

God is there for us. All we have to do is pray and he answers our prayers even if it is an answer we don't want or don't agree with, faith and prayers get us through. There are things that happen to all of us all of the time we don't understand, God gives us free will to pray or try and solve things without him. When we find ourselves in a huge mess because we tried without him to correct things, we pray and he gives a solution, we just have to be willing to take his answer even if we don't believe it to be right. God doesn't make mistakes, man just tries to make things fit the way they want things to be instead of what God has provided. That is where war and other problems come from. I will remember you in my prayers to help you have an understanding of the Bible just as we all need this prayer.

Answer 9

God loves us all and He wants only the best for us. If we reject Him and choose to live our lives apart from Him, we suffer the consequences. God hates war because He knows all the pain and suffering it causes and the lasting repercussions. God tells us to love one another, but we choose to hate one another and we constantly tell God to get out of our lives and let us do things our own way. God graciously steps aside and says OK, I will go.
Whether it be an individual, a country or the world, God will not force Himself upon us. When we choose to sin and ignore Gods teachings, we suffer the consequences. If we tell God to get out of our lives, and He graciously does so, how then can we turn around and blame Him for our consequences.
If the whole world worshipped and obeyed God, there would be no war or poverty or crime or disease.
When we tell God to get out of our lives, He will graciously do so. However, when He does leave, His blessings and His protection and His prosperity for us, go with Him.
We are to blame for the trouble we now find ourselves in.
God Bless You....Peace.

Answer 10

God hates us fighting and killing each other but he also gave us free will. If you decided to pick up a gun and kill your neighbour and God prevented it by coming down and zapping the gun out of your hand, or if God intervened every time a person tried to cheat the government out of taxes, or shoplift, where then is our free will. Free will is the ability to decide to do good or bad. If we were only allowed to do good, how do we have free will to choose between good and bad? God does not support war but he lets people exercise their free will and some people just choose to do evil things.

Answer 11

If you knew God and worshipped Him in spirit and in Truth you will know what His will is. You would know that what we choose to do is our own to do with as He created us. Free will. People say why does he stop us from this or that... then we wouldn't have freewill.

People say that if we have freewill why did he create those that would not choose Him? I think not creating people just because of their choices is a closer example of not having freewill than anything else I can think of.

He does nothing about it because that would be taking our free will away. God is not as concerned about our lives here as He is our immortal souls. He wants us to exercise our freewill and choose righteousness and Him, in Truth and not out of fear or necessity or through being a bunch f yesmen. He wants true people that love Him, to give His love to.

Nothing happens that He does not allow, but He allows it because men chose to do it.