God can supposedly do ANYTHING at will, why all the fire and brimstone? Why all the suffering? If nothing is beyond his grasp, what difference does it make if we suffer. He could inactuality, just will you to feel like you have suffered if you wanted, he could choose to not cause you to suffer. He could WILL the non-existence of the devil and all negative influence on man. Please explain.
2007-06-18 03:36:16 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have my own opinions, I'm asking for yours.
2007-06-18 03:38:28 · update #1
Jainica:Then he does not exist as laid out by your religion.
2007-06-18 03:40:10 · update #2
There is no battle with an Almighty. The demi-god satan knows this as well. Why would he fight an unwinnable war?
2007-06-18 03:48:45 · update #3
The whole thing is just old myths. The universe revolves around cause and effect. In effect, why would a god cause animals (other than humans) to suffer? They don't "sin." Animals suffer for the same reason humans do. And it has nothing to do with an imaginary god.
2007-06-18 03:42:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
OK, I think the reason why we suffer on Earth is because life is a test to see if we go to Heaven or Hell. God already knows our fate, but we have to go through it in order for us to recongize what we have done. If God created us, new are fates right that second, and the nex second God has put us in either Heaven or Hell, we hadn't even gotten a chance to do anything. We didn't get a chance to sin. It wouldn't be fair to put us in a place we were destined for yet we didn't d anything yet.
WelI I guess the devil could be part of this test, or maybe since God loves every creature he/she made, God doesn't want to see the Devil go bye-bye.
As for Armageddon ( I think you mean the end of the world ), God maybe has heard the suffering, and it's too much, and God wants to end it and finally prove to the devil that he/she can't. And God is finally preparing the kingdom Jesus will get when he comes to Earth. God doesn't want a kingdom Jesus will inheret of violence. But I don't know why we have to suffer more before a country is established. We always had to do this. When the Israelites were in Egypt, they suffered a lot, but then got their promised kingdom back. And then, right before the country Israel was established in 1948, the Jews, or most of them had to go through the Holocast. Now armegeddon is the final straw, so the suffering is going to be the worst we've ever seen. And it's not just Israel this time, it's the whole world.
2007-06-18 03:44:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He could will anything..but he gave us free will so if he intervines that means he takes away the freewill part. The suffering all the bad stuff is due to people. He can't just give free will to just the good people,or take away free will if someone makes a huge mistake that messes up someone elses life.It's like he's Switzerland he has his own opinions and rules to what life should be but he stays out of it.
I don't think he wills armagedon either,it's just inevitable.At a certain point someone will be shooting brimstone at us.. i mean we already had planes crashed into us right.. was that god.. did he just take those planes and chuck them into nyc because he was bored?.. No a group of people who chose to live and cause chaos did.. We got missles and all these toys of mass destruction..someone's going to use them eventually. So it's not god saying mayb sometime i'll just kill all of you. he's saying you have freewill.. that means theres going to be bad stuff going on thats going to screw everyone over..Just a heads up you guys will kill eachother..with brimstone
2007-06-18 03:50:00 · answer #3 · answered by mon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has blessed us with free will. He doesn't want us to suffer. He's given us all we need to make the right choices.The Bible is like a cheat-sheet to life. God deserves all the glory possible--what, with creating the world and all! He performs miracles every day and keeps His word to His creations. Because He loves us unconditionally the way He does, we should love Him reciprocally. The evil that Satan set free in the world provides people with a good example of what not to CHOOSE to do. When we CHOOSE to glorify God with our lives, it's even more satisfying to the Lord because He didn't MAKE us or WILL us to follow Him. We followed out of love and our own volition.
Hope this helps!
God bless!
2007-06-18 04:01:10 · answer #4 · answered by the_ivy_vine 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No everything is not for his entertainment and the reason why there's going to be an Armageddon because that's going to be the only and final battle on Earth because Jesus and everyone in Heaven (except for God), is going to fight and Satan and all the anti-Christs are going to be wiped out and is going to be cast to Hell for all eternity
2007-06-18 03:42:09 · answer #5 · answered by Dawn S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does NOT need or want an Armageddon.
Armageddon serves two major purposes.
Firstly, the Jewish people need it to prove to them that Jesus Christ IS The Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament. That HE is their Savior. (You see, the Jews as a nation do NOT believe The New Testament. They do not believe the baby born of a virgin in Bethlehem was Jesus Christ their Messiah.)
Secondly, The Battle serves to once and for all defeat Satan, The Antichrist, The False Prophet, and all the non-believers and enemies of God and the Jews forever. And proves to the Jews that He is Their prophesied Messiah.
Would you prefer the perfect obedience of a mindless robot or the love of a child?
God did not create mindless soulless robots.
He created people. He WANTS us to CHOOSE Him.
But God is fair.
He gives us CHOICE.
HE loves us and wants us to love Him back.
We have all faced the deep pain and hurt of unrequited love. (We love someone and they do not love us back.)
But even knowing HE will face pain, hurt, and yes rejection...He STILL created in us free will...choice.
2007-06-18 04:04:41 · answer #6 · answered by faith 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perfect Justice.
God has perfect love
perfect righteousness
perfect justice, not just one aspect of God but all these aspects of God. People really don't seem to understand that perfect justice is just as important as perfect love.
God cannot WILL people to do anything because God gave us free-will as a part of his perfect LOVE for mankind. Just as he offered a way out of the pits of hell by sending his son in perfect LOVE for you, me and the world.
But in that perfect love there is perfect justice to follow those who do not recognize the son he sent in that perfect love.
I suppose everyone thinks they have a better plan than God but the truth is, they don't. We will find out more about the mind of God the more we read and study his word but we will never truly obtain the mind of God.
2007-06-18 03:42:48 · answer #7 · answered by sassinya 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesnt need an Armageddon- Yet we have a free will-we are not pupets, because he knows the future he is declaring what will happen-it breaks his heart when we reject Jesus
He even had his birth predicted 700 years before he came
Isaiah 9:6 Unto us a child is born a son is given and he will be almighty God the wonderful counselor and the prince of peace."
Many others say the bible has been changed but why would those of my Jewish people that reject their own Messiah Jesus and claim it will be another-leave this in their Jewish Scriptures=because it is God's Word and none can change it.
there is a real heaven and as Daniel 12:2 says a hell of abhorance forever -Jesus said so too=Revelation 19-22nd chapters and described the joy of heaven and the agony of forever in hell for rejecting his salvation too=
why not believe Jesus Words
He said if we reject his words, my words shall judge you in the last day at the judgement." John 12:48
Mathew 24 Jesus says hell is gnashing teeth and weeping forever & its Revelation 19-22nd chapters that describes the joy of heaven and agony of hell
this is what happened when I let the Words of Jesus save me=Revelation 3:19&20 "I love you and ask you to repent (even of one lie) and Behold I stand at your heart door and knock if you hear my word, and ask me in, I will come in and be your friend and you mine.
Jesus offers us to be our best friend-It happened for me that day when I prayed, "Jesus thank you that you love me and offer to come into my heart and be my friend, I am sorry for my sins, please come in, amen."
praying the best for you too inner peace and joy evermore on earth and in heaven too, even with trial He will always come through for you, David
Yes there is a real Armageddon yet there is a rapture too to rescue you to heaven first if you believe
2007-06-18 03:44:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesnt use us for entertainment. and Armageddon was created for a reason. because we all cant live forever well actually we can spiritually but not physically and besides. there is a better life after life on earth its called heaven and also we werent created for God's entertainment, we were created because God wanted to.and dont under estimate what God can do, God can do way more than anyone on this earth.
2007-06-18 03:40:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In my opinion, God gave man authority on earth and as usual we screwed it up as always. God just wrote what we are dumb enough to get ourselves into, not what He wants to see happen. Try reading the Bible for once and you will learn how God wants us to behave towards each other. Read the Bible WOW what a concept!
2007-06-18 03:53:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋