If God is good, why does He create people with disabilities?

Question

Or for that matter allow diseases like cancer and suchlike?

Answer 1

You have enough good answers but as to goodness...

... If God is not good why did He voluntarily choose to suffer the punishment of Hell in the place of undeserving sinners that they might be restored to Him and spared the just punishments for their sins?

Answer 2

Disabilities and things like cancer are a result of sin. By that, I don't mean that if you have a disability it is because you have sinned, I mean that sin corrupted this whole world. When God created the world, nobody had disabilities and nobody got sick. It was sin that did that.

I think also that people with disabilities and cancer and things can teach us a lot and help develop compassion and other such qualities.

Answer 3

Just to clear up one point. I don't believe my daughter being born without her left hand as anything to learn from.
She can do everything everyone else can do, physically, however she gets teased by little heathens at school and then cries to me about it.
I would love to give her an answer for everything as christians do, and say, "you know, honey, god has a plan for you"
"god works in mysterious ways"
But you know what? I tell her that I love her and I make her try to come up with things that she can't do. Every time she tries to tell me something she can't do, She succeeds at that task.

I believe I am raising her and my other three girls the way they should, and by that I mean so they can decide for themselves to believe the grotesque things other people may say.

Sorry, asker, I didn't like one of the answers...lol...I will get down off of my soap box now.

Answer 4

I can answer that from a personal standpoint. People are born with disabilities, or they can acquire them in their life time. I have a chronic pain disease since I have been 12 years old and I am almost 49. My husband had 12 injuries at his work that has made him permanently disabled- but the permanent part of this is so short compared to eternity. There is a passage of scripture that explains this much better than I can- 2 Corinthians 4:16-17

16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Both my husband and I have to look at God because under our own strength we could barely get out of bed in the morning. What gets us through is the fact that one day there will be no more pain, crying or death_- HALLELUJAH!!

Answer 5

everyone of us has a disability some are just more than others people with a disability are still very abil my brother has cerebral palsy he was born with and he is the best person inside and out he just cant walk about the cancers and stuff maybe were poisoning our self accidently buy what we eat and how we take care of our self i dont thing god does this stuff to hurt us i recently lost two people to cancer and heart attack but god is good and this is just my own opinion i dont realy know

Answer 6

OK..God created the earth and us as perfect, pure and sinless. But Adam and Eve disobeyed God and sin entered the world. We are still under the curse of that sin now. It is sin that makes evil and awful things that happen, NOT GOD.
But God still loved us. So he sent Christ, His Son, to die for us on the cross. Through Christ we can have eternal life with God!!

Answer 7

Lots of reasons. Character development - like for example, providing a source of humiliation for one to maintain a proper level of humility. Another is providing opportunity for others to exercise charity and kindness. And there are many others.

When Jesus' disciples ran into a blind man they asked, ""Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" "Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life." Then after healing him, this blind man went on to out-debate the religious leaders of his day.

Likewise note God's interaction with Moses when he told him to go and speak with Pharaoh to let his people go. Moses was reluctant claiming not to be able to speak well. But God said, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say." Ex 4:11,12

Thus God is able to help us in our weaknesses. And those who are weak have a greater opportunity to trust in God. Thus it was noted of the Christian community, "Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things— and the things that are not— to nullify the things that are." 1Cor 1:26-28

Maybe the question should be if God is good, why does he allow some people to live a comfortable life, which corrupts them through pride and self-indulgence?

Answer 8

Ah, another reiteration of the "problem of evil". God gave man free will, without which man could not truly love God. However, man can misuse that free will, including twisting something that might be good, such as religion, into something that is evil. Until the unbeliever can show that a universe with love (even though it entails the possibility of evil) cannot be better than a universe without love (even though it entails no possibility of evil), then the "problem of evil" argument will always falter. It is not God who caused the human suffering and so forth, but man's misuse of free will.

Answer 9

God was and is always good, but the human nature became sinful inherently after Adam & Eve ate from the forbidden tree, hence the wage of sin is death.
God's plan for all human beings is to believe in God's Son Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, to have the new life and be born again by the work Holy Spirit.

Answer 10

God does not create people with these disablities. They are inherited from our first parents, Adam and Eve. The minute they sinned they became imperfect, flawed. If you have a mold with a dent in it all the cookies made in that mold will have that dent. God is a god of love. Everything, even Adam and Eve, made in the beginning, was perfect. Many scriptures in the Bible point to that fact. 1John 4:8-God is love, Deuteronomy 32:4--all God's ways are Justice, Genesis 2:17-God's warning to Adam about disobedience. So, bottom line is that the fault lies with us, not God, and only thru Jesus' sacrifice and God's Kingdom can this be rectified.

Answer 11

God isn't good, William Blake thought it was an evil spirit that created our existence. I can find no justification for the pain and suffering in this world and I am not going to find excuses for the being that created this world. If there is a god why does it have to be good, maybe like its creations it is made of both positive and negative forces. That is why it creates and also destroys.