bad things to happen on Earth? Can't genocide and war be traced to immoral and inhumane people? Don't most people accept that global warming is a human made condition and that this is the cause for so much of the erratic weather causing droughts and floods and, ultimately, famine? If God does exist, can we really say it's his fault for letting it happen if we aren't willing to try and fix the problems we've created first?
2007-05-24 06:37:23 · 8 answers · asked by randyken 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If the world was filled with love and people were not given free-will to choose right or wrong, would we be anything more than robots?
2007-05-24 06:48:20 · update #1
Again, why disparage an entity in which you don't believe? You bash AND you deny His existence. WTF? Have your cake and eat it, too?
2007-05-24 06:49:35 · update #2
*drink* (non-alcoholic wine, of course!)
2007-05-24 06:41:11 · answer #1 · answered by James, Pet Guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If my wife leaves the gate open and a dog wanders into the back yard and tears up the garden, I do not sit back and watch the destruction simply because it was her fault. If I have the ability to stop it, I will. God supposedly has the ability to stop death and destruction, yet makes a conscious decision to not do anything. It doesn't really matter whose fault it is when it is a matter of helping someone overcome a problem. What a lame excuse for a cruel god!
2007-05-24 13:45:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The point is that if God is an all-powerful being, and wishes the best for us, he would do more to intervene and to express what was the right way to do things.
They are pointing out the inconsistency in the Christian position of an all-loving God with a world in which almost unbelievable horror will exist.
2007-05-24 13:42:08 · answer #3 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People like to blame anyone and everyone for their misfortunes except for theirselves. In situations like that people see God as a scapegoat.
2007-05-24 13:43:02 · answer #4 · answered by Par 4 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People ask this question because they aren't ready to see that what man makes he makes for himself through his thoughts and actions. God is what we make of it for good or ill.
2007-05-24 13:40:22 · answer #5 · answered by Mark S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You may have a point, but then if he does exist, he doesn't care about us because he lets it happen and does nothing about it.
2007-05-24 13:40:57 · answer #6 · answered by David Fernandez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a god, he needs to do a better job.
2007-05-24 13:41:59 · answer #7 · answered by S K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They ask that because they're bitter and unoriginal.
2007-05-24 13:39:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋