I always hear from my christian mom " All the blessings you have come from God", now with that logic

Question

could I conclude that the people who don't have food, shelter, education and health are neglected by God?
I can honestly say that I didn't do anything in particular to merit whatever I have, not more so than the next person....
A car falls off a cliff with two passengers on board; one dies the other comes up without a scratch: " ooh, God saved you", what about the other one?
A 3 year old with terminal cancer :---------------silence.
Aren't the things that happen on Earth wayyy too random to think that there is some sort of divine hand that guides it all?

Answer 1

That is why the MER's* don't work. To me, they are just brown-nosing and not questioning their religious philosophy (like you). They just go on giving credit to the boss, and taking the rap for the boss....wish I had them working for me! I would LOVE to have them give me all the credit, and take all the responsibility.
YOU are questioning your religious beliefs. That is called "religious philosophy" and it will keep you from becoming someone who just brown-noses and follows the church (even when it says, "exterminate them!"). Keep it up!
You and I practice the same approach to religion.

Answer 2

sadness has to be prevalent in life for happiness to be understood and appreciated.

it is the same with heaven and earth.

we would not be able to fully appreciate how glorious heaven is if our earth isnt predominently the devil's domain, complete with suffering, pain and anguish.

the Lord is a just God, and those who suffer and duly rewarded in heaven. eternally.
for those who suffer briefly in the world, this will be but a short period compared to the bright eternity that will follow.

isn't everything far too complex and intricate for us not to think that there is a divine hand that developed such a world, such creatures, such structures?
why do people choose to live in darkness when there is so much love and light available to them through jesus?


Look up the site - basically an answer to the q.

http://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t023.html

The "problem of pain," as the well-known Christian scholar, C.S. Lewis, once called it, is atheism's most potent weapon against the Christian faith.

All true science and history, if rightly understood, support the fact of God. This evidence is so strong that, as the Bible says: "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" (Psalm 14:1).

- The Lord Jesus Christ, who was the only truly "innocent" and "righteous" man in all history, nevertheless has suffered more than anyone else who ever lived.

Answer 3

Frind without a God this world will be in a worse way then it is now, Because satan will have control of All things, As far as someone dying, & someone living, God has a plan But if there was no God everyone will be dead. You try so hard to disclaim God that you just prove him more. Because if God did not exist, then You would have been dead by now.

Answer 4

I don't believe God is making every little thing that happens on the earth happen. Yes, God can and does bless us. That doesn't mean that when bad things happen God is neglecting us. Mankind turned its back on God and God isn't obligated to, and cannot due to his nature, keep man from living how he chooses. That's called free will. Man is free to choose to continue to ignore God and his blessings or follow God and reap the rewards.

Answer 5

I beleive that God is in control of everything;some of the things he allows to happen to us ,He does it for us to learn from them but always He just knows the best for us and is protecting us from something WORSE

Answer 6

"I can honestly say that I didn't do anything in particular to merit whatever I have"

Congratulations on being honest with yourself. Many are not so honest with themselves. Rather than see their good luck for what it is - luck - they prefer to think of themselves as superior.

Answer 7

This guy beat me to it:

"The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust."
- Thomas Jefferson

Here's my addition: If we are so complicated that a God had to create us, then isn't the creation of a god that much more complicated?

Answer 8

All things dull and ugly,
All creatures, short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.

Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom,
He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid,
Who made the spiky urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scabbed and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.

Amen

- Monty Python

Answer 9

The curses you have come from god too.

and Christians think that its atheists who are without morals!

Answer 10

Fantastic point - thankyou i couldn't have said it better myself.