Which is True: God allows bad things to happen -or- God is not all-powerful?

Question

Is there another possibility?

Answer 1

I don't know.

Answer 2

God allows bad things to happen
Check this out we all have our own free will

John 10:9 Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved.[b] They will come and go freely and will find good pastures

In this parable Jesus is the shepard and we are the sheep and when he interperts the parable he says that "they" meaning the people...the saved will come freely..so just as God gives us the option in choosing him he gives us the option on how we want to live our lives and if bad things happen,,.that's because people make bad decisions..and they suffer or others suffer the consequences from that person's actions..

If a mother sleeps around and has lots of sex and contracts HIV and then breast feeds her son, the son contracts HIV. Although the child is an infant and has done nothing wrong he still reaps the consequences of her bad decisions..
Bad decisions=consequences=suffering for you and possible the ones around you

Is that fair? No of course life isnt fair...but then there is Jesus, the assurance of his love and his guidience can prevent us from making these bad decisions..

If bad things happen it doesnt mean that God isn't Almighty..He is still a great God regardless of what we do

Deuteronomy 10:17
“For the Lord your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords. He is the great God, the mighty and awesome God, who shows no partiality and cannot be bribed

When you really think about it, God is a great God because he respects us as humans and gives us our own right..and he is glorified especially when we take our right and give it to him and submit ourselves as his servants..

Jesus loves you he gave you a decision..and now it's up to you to choose wisely

Jesus loves you,
God Bless

Answer 3

If an all-powerful god had Satan as an enemy, then Satan could be banished from existence with a mere divine thought. Given that Satan nonetheless is still thought to exist, it can only be concluded that either God isn't benevolent, or that Satan is just another part of god and he is in fact unspeakably evil - hence why an uncountable number of bad things happen.

It's just like playing the Sims after you've gotten bored with trying to keep them alive.

Answer 4

God allows things to happen. He has a reason for everything that happens. And just because He does some things that we don't agree with we begin to hate Him, failing to realize that God is there, and that His will is being done.

Answer 5

Bad things happen because of our own choices.He allows man to make his own choices.But GOD will deal with every person according to his choices.Perhaps when we live in sin and deny GOD he will allow bad stuff to happen.Why because we deny him denying his power,denying him not to protect.We cannot disobey GOD and expect him to protect us and bring only good.

GOD is so powerful u will keep writing books about his miracles.But he gave man a free will.A person has a free will and when a person does bad it is bound to happen unless people pray over it upon which GOD will stop it.GOD created everything u see with the words of his mouth.

But u dont have to worry about bad things.When u are in GOD protecting arms u will be protected.Read Psalm 91
A whole chapter on GOD protection promises.

GOD loves u so much that he sent his son JESUS to die for u to reconcile u back.

John 3:16 says "For GOD so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoso ever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life".Ask JESUS to come into your heart and forgive ur sins and cleanse ur past with his blood.

With a simple prayer like above u can be saved.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Let me tell you a little life story-There was a little girl when she was four her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. She followed her Mom around thinking God would never take a Mom from her daughter. When the little girl was eleven, two weeks before Christmas as her Mom, Dad and little sister sat watching A White Christmas the harsh reality stonewalled her. Her mom started to sieze and the little girl began CPR, when the paramedics arrived the D-Fibbed her and took her away. When her daddy came home he told his girls their Mommy had gone to heaven.

As the little girl struggled that year she got sick, very sick. She had gotten a brain disease that had left her in a coma. She recovered and then tried to live a normal life. Which she and her littled sister did with the best attitude they could considering the circumstances. Until the year she graduated high school. This was when her father who was close to seventy passed from lung cancer.

The now young woman and her little sister were sent to live with their older brother from their Mom's first marriage. During this time the trust fund their Dad worked so hard to give them had been wiped out.

The girls decided they would get out of that and move in together. This young woman had a great boyfriend who moved with them and worked while the two sisters continued their education. During this time the woman finds out she is pregnant. When she went in for her 16 week visit, her ultrasound, the baby had no heartbeat. She had miscarried.

A few years later, God blessed the young woman with her first born child. A beautiful son, however, something wasn't right. She knew there was something wrong with her son's appearance, his forehead particularly but noone would listen. One day she marched into Childrens Hospital demanding answers after she had researched her son's skull deformity. She had barely made it time to correct his ailment, but they were able to reconstruct his skull and after a huge surgery the little boy grew to be a very cute and loving child.

A few years pass and the young woman has another beautiful boy. A year into his life she realizes he can not hear. The boy had coclear implaints put in and recovered just fine but not without treatment three times a week and constant extra care from the young woman, his mommy.

About three years later the woman finds herself expecting again. Over come with joy she schedules her first doc appointment, 10 weeks into her pregnancy she miscarries yet again.

Now 15 years have passed and this young lady has a beautiful family, a successful career and even still the dream to have just one more child. Everyone asks her how she has been able to stay so positive and get through so much heartache, her answer: don't get me wrong, what I've gone through is more than most people will ever go through, and I still get sad, but I don't dwell on it. Why? Because she knows that God doesn't give you more than you can't handle. She feels that if she can be an inspiration for just one person in her life time then her life has served God's purpose which she believes is to show people who are down on their luck or who think selfishly that no matter where you are in life, there is always someone out there who has it worse. She beleives this to be true for her self as well.

So it's not that God allows bad things to happenen or that he is not all powerfull because he is and without him and her Faith in him, this once young and saddened girl could have easily turned to drugs and alcohol or other self distructive ways of life. Instead, she choose to continue to let God work through her and show people that even in our darkest hour he is there.

Answer 8

We are all here to experience life it is a Journey we all choose to take we all create so if we create something bad you expect God to step in and fix it have you forgotton god gave us all free will ?

It all comes down to Self responsibility and excepting what we created it is so easy to blame someone else isn't it LOL

Remember no pain in Life and we have no Personal gain

Love & Blessings
Milly

Answer 9

God needs our attention to keep him alive.

Answer 10

Or there is no God.

Answer 11

Neither. God doesn't exist.