People in Iraq say there is a loving God. ( Look at all the deaths) People in America say there is a loving God. ( Look at all the deaths) Where is God when we need this great God?
2007-06-17 10:11:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If you love someone you don't want to hurt them. Why does god allow it?
2007-06-17 10:16:53 · update #1
I believe in a loving God because any relationship that is forced is not a loving one, so when God asks for people's cooperation he knows we may not. All the crap going on in the world is people's mess, not God's, because God will not interfere with people's choices to disobey. The mess in the world is actually PROOF that we have a loving God, otherwise, everything would be "perfect" but no one would have any part to play in creating the success of it.
More evidence to me, in addition to this, is that God takes our messes and works within them to teach us life lessons, making us better able to deal with things if we choose to learn from those mistakes, and also to comfort us through them. It is amazing to me that throughout all my suffering through all my own and others' messes, God is still with me, and when I'm ready to ask for help, he is there. God doesn't rescue me from struggle but I believe that he is with me through it. That is a loving God. And I also believe that through Jesus, he is able to understand my weaknesses, my struggles, and my human needs. Jesus was a sacrifice that God gave on my behalf because he knew I would always be ill equipped to be holy enough to receive the blessing of communing with a perfect and just God. (Would you want a God that lowered his standards?) It is by grace, a gift, that I have a relationship with God because in my own weakness, I wouldn't get anywhere. But Jesus' loving gift to me is giving me access to his perfection so that I can have a relationship with a perfect God. It is nothing I could earn, nothing I deserve, and nothing that would fall in my lap any other way. God doesn't need me, but he wants me and wants my life and afterlife to be in his presence, so he gave me a way to get it at the expense of the life of his only human son who died a very human death that he didn't deserve, because I did. I think that is a pretty loving God.
2007-06-17 10:39:19 · answer #1 · answered by musicimprovedme 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Personally people believe that there is a loving God because of the good things that this God has done. For example, create people?? Well at most times we are good. Also because God should be someone that you trust so loving is a lot more trustworthy than scary war drawn God.
2007-06-17 17:17:18 · answer #2 · answered by colleeneybooboo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't blame the bad on God. Blame it on the Devil. This is life.
When you believe in God it's not only for the blessing but for everything. You live in faith. Don't think once you believe life will be perfect. He tests those who will still believe with him the the work of the Devil is happening & those are true Christians.
2007-06-17 17:18:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people need to believe that there is something in this world that can save them, they need to live with the hope, that is why, if you isolate a few children on a deserted island and let them live there before ever getting any education, they will invent a God to pray to, they will invent a supernatural thing - and this just for the need of any human to hope more, to hope for miracles.
we invented our own God the same way. and maybe He really does exist, but what we learn since childhood about church are man invented things
2007-06-17 17:17:17 · answer #4 · answered by larissa 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is busily working to take care of all situations. God does not create death and war, man does that. There is a reason behind why he let so many people die. What the reason is I can not tell you. But he has his reasons for them. Good luck in your search.
2007-06-17 17:17:05 · answer #5 · answered by The PENsive Insomniac 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The troubles of this world pail in comparison to how far we have fallen from Holiness. God is Loving because He will forgive us and restore us. God has show use much grace.
The pain in life is not of God. It is from human sinfulness. it is because of greed, pride, wrath and ignorant hate that we have wars that kill the Innocent.
2007-06-17 17:17:43 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God gave us free will. People choose to do bad things which is why people are dying. There is a loving God and he loves everyone.
2007-06-17 17:15:48 · answer #7 · answered by Jackie 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
dont blame god for the decisions PEOPLE make, god is there people just refuse to see it....
THERE IS A LOVING GOD
even if someone was to kill me i would still believe
THERE IS A LOVING GOD
2007-06-17 17:17:57 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who disbelieves in a loving god deserves everlasting hell as a sign of the depths of that love.
2007-06-17 20:16:21 · answer #9 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People all over say, "Look at all the deaths" and they want to blame God. And all along there are people killing people. People, mind you.
So people like me see people like that and say, " Look at those deranged people blaming God for what people do."
2007-06-17 17:15:39 · answer #10 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋