If God is real then why does he...?

Question

Ok, in Sydney Australia last week a promising your 14 year old was sadly taken from her family. Killed by another boat on our fair harbour.

I want to know why God would take such a beautiful, promising young girl who was destined for many things on this earth - when there are a million and 1 other people he could have taken in her place?

Why didnt he choose someone who had no goals in life or someone who is dying a painful death anyway?

Why does he pick and choose who he takes through his pearly gates?

Surely even the most devout Christian would agree that it would be more fair to take someone dying of a painful disease that it is to take someone in their prime...

Answer 1

Because the Sydney council is corrupt and they don’t maintain the ferries or roads properly and such things can happen. God is teaching people to improve their technology and education. Sadly some must die but what can you do? Also, if there were no accidents (ever) then that would prove god exists, and that’s a no-no. Actually I’m a polytheist but the same could be said for the monotheistic god.

Answer 2

For one thing, often it isn't God's choice of who dies and who doesn't. We have freedom to make choices and decisions. Often these choices and decisions lead to death and destruction. For instance, the girl that you mentioned, she made a decision to be at a certain place at a certain time, I don't know the circumstances of the accident, but if alcohol or drugs was involved in the part of the other boat-then it was a destructive choice on their part. Suicide is much the same manner. We have the freedom to make these decisions and we also have to face the consequences for these decisions. I doubt that we will ever truely know why this person died at this time and not later or earlier. Sometimes it is simply the odds that catch up with us. Take a smoker-they made a decision to start smoking, even knowing how hazardious it is, some live to be in their 90's, some don't. The odds get some and not others. Fair has nothing to do with this type of thing. There are things at work here that many of us don't have a clue about or any understanding about why they are and aren't. I would suggest a book for you to read. It helped me in this area, "Your God Is Too Small." It was written by a Rabbi and discusses many of these types of concerns and thoughts. Another area for insight is the Book of Job in the Bible. You find relatively quickly that fair and unfair don't exist.

Answer 3

You're thinking about what god is and is not and your reliance on some "him" to solve our situation (or that girl's situation) and/or the problems of the world is the type of thinking that bogs we humans down in to the very conditions you complain about. To think that god is a "he" or a "she" and actively permits people to die is tremendously frustrating position for me because it the substance of historical thinking which refuses to change.

Where’s god;s warning when people are nearing unknown but certain danger? Here are my ideas: First, it is possible that the value system that is placed on this equation is meaningless in relation to some HIGHER PURPOSE? Perhaps the history of death and pain and suffering is a spit in the pan compared to what the ultimate goal is? Does a mother focus on the pain of child birth when she first holds her infant in her arms? Or is she elated with the result such that the pain becomes meaningless? Chaos, pain and suffering are inherent propensities in this system, but in the evolution of biology toward man they were certainly necessary components of the equation. Unlike the animal, whose pain is a conditioned response mechanism, man (now conscious) has an understanding of these things. He understands pain, suffering, mortality. Now he must suffer the consequences of that knowledge. But given the loftier goal of creating new personalities, perhaps the awareness of the chaotic nature of our environment and the pain and suffering and death we know in our conscious states is well worth attainment of another goal? In other words, maybe the means justify the end. Quite possibly not even the intervention by God would change the final outcomes. Secondly, this scenario assumes god can intervene. I believe god is just another word for perfection or morality and that saying that god could grab the girl or give her some warning is the same as saying your morality could grab the girl and save her. You (being moral or godly) want to save her and feel sorry for her when she is not saved because you have god (morality) within you.

Answer 4

Though the episode is sad, there is a mystry behind God's actions which will not be discernable to all of us. In my understanding, the outer form or the age doesn't count. If the time is ripe, things happen. The same question was put to Sai Baba who answered this with an anecdote in His enigmatic way. A young man tries to break a granite stone with hammer. He beats it with hammer 20 times, it doesn't break. An elderly man comes and beat the stone with 4 times and the stones breaks in. How? If you are a student of science you can understand this riddle. The stone can withstand upto 24 hammer stroke. The young and the old together beat it 24 times and the stone broke. Likewise your episode about the girl. She has already undergone her sojourn in her previous incarnation and she was left only with only 14 more years to work out the past. There ends the matter. If you ponder over it you can realize the truth.

Answer 5

God doesn't pick and choose everytime someone dies. I believe that he has set things in motion long, long ago and for the most part he doesn't interfere in the natural order.

Also, sometimes bad things happen because of choices that others have made and he really doesn't interfere with that because that would remove our freedome of choice. For example, is someone gets drunk and accidently kills someone it's not God's fault. That person made the choice to get drunk and that choice led to someones death. I haven't heard about the incident in Sydney so I'm not saying that's what happened there.

Answer 6

I thought God wasn't supposed to play favorites? A cute little girl is just as important to god as a 50 year old bum on the street. It's us who emphasis some as being more important than others (words such as "beautiful" come to mind). If he (God) exists then I'm sure he has a reason for taking her. But I'm agnostic, so what do I know.

Answer 7

God is fear on His love for us, his creatures.He do not selcct anyone of us who will be the first to die either you are beautiful or ugly person, or sinner or non sinner, religious or non religious. We should not blame God for this incident. We have our own destiny in life. It was a conclusion to me that her end of life is her destiny to die at young age. It is the will of God to die at her young age.

You could not say that because she is beautiful and a promising young girl, she will not die at her age.You have no right or no power to say that the other man should die first before this promising beautiful lady which you are stating.Noboy will agree with your wrong logic of dying.
jtm

Answer 8

Man has been separated from God since the fall. Its a free for all out there. God will intervene for those who believe in Him, for those who call on Him in truth. Its not God's fault. Life happens.

Answer 9

Not true, the goal is not a happy life here, the goal was to be born of women and then return to the Glorified kingdom you came from. The bible says to die is gain because the earth is satans kingdom and heaven is Gods kingdom and we are all going at some time or another, the earlier the better when you know what that means, God saved her from the pit and pluck another flower for his kingdom and she is in our future!
http://www.freedomcame. /glory/ put com after freedomcame. and before /glory the system wont let me post the link normally

Answer 10

nature doesnt care about the individual
or even the species
look at the dinosaurs
life just keeps churning
forms after forms
and the passenger pigeon is gone forever
and technology evolves
but god is not stingy
hes not afraid to throw stuff away
after all hes not worried about running out
(if you must insist on the anthropomorphic analogy)