earthquakes, mentally retared or handicapped people, stillborn babies, disease, illness? Does this sound like an intelligently designed planet and people? Can anyone be so deluded to simply ignore the above and say 'yes'?
2007-06-20 11:31:46 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Gilbert W-You are mentally ill.
2007-06-20 11:39:09 · update #1
neptune_you're telling man can cause a rain storm-Ae you mental? Look at what you are writing.
2007-06-20 11:41:34 · update #2
I used to think that way too... as an adolescent, I was a determined atheist. Since then, I've had too many experiences to deny the existance of a Supreme Being.
"Why all the suffering, then?" you ask smugly?
Two reasons: First, you assume that this earth, this life is all-important. It's a narrow-minded approach to the infinite and eternal nature of God and his children. Second, God only cares about testing and proving the faith of his children. Nothing that happens here matters as long as we choose to do good to others and improve our lives and the lives of those within the circle of our influence.
Ultimately, justice will prevail... but it won't happen on this fleeting planet.
2007-06-20 11:39:15 · answer #1 · answered by one_n1ce_guy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are trying to understand the mind of God. Stop trying--you aren't in His league. It's a little like the goldfish in your living room trying to understand why you carry a brief case or what you are doing while speaking on a cell phone. Only in the instance of you to God the difference is much greater.
It take more faith to believe that the wonderfully made creatures you see all around happened by accident. The laws of thermodynamics teach us that everything left alone with no outside control becomes less and less orderly. Not the reverse. To believe that a human could have "evolved" from microscopic life without intelligent design would be like a tornado passing through a junk yard and leaving behind an airplane.
I choose to believe in a God even if I can not understand all that He is doing. One day we shall bow down before Him. I hope you will accept his free gift of eternal life by accepting Jesus Christ so that after you bow, you will live forever in His Kingdom. The alternative is not nearly so nice.
I have just said a short prayer that God will make Himself known to you and that you will know for sure that He is the designer of all things. Try saying a prayer that if He is real He will prove Himself to you. Then be ready and watching for what happens next.
Hope we can spend eternity together.
John
2007-06-20 18:47:56 · answer #2 · answered by Big Bama Fan 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Intellligent design ? yes indeed !!! It all started out perfect but over time everything winds down. The perfect world has been damaged by man's own sinfulness. That is why the first flood happened because man's violence had filled the earth and God spared 8 people from that flood from which all of mankind can rely on the fact of the rest of us on this planet have come from. That may be a hard pill for you to swallow. But it is true !!! If you will check out the movements of races and move back in time that will lead you back to the middle east. Enjoy the reseach. It is a great adventure !!!
http://www.bibleprobe.com/300great.htm
2007-06-20 18:47:17 · answer #3 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There's a beautiful magic system: it's like catch-22 in reverse.
It's called "The Fall"
If it's good it shows God did it.
If it's bad it shows the world is damaged by human sin, especially Adam and Eve's.
There's *nothing* that that can't cover.
From the parasitic mosquitoes that troubled Darwin, to every painful childbirth since Genesis 3.
That's some catch, the Fall, as Yossarian might have said.
The best there is.
2007-06-20 18:47:59 · answer #4 · answered by Pedestal 42 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the great things about the Intelligent Design movement is that it does not try to answer questions that fall outside the realm of science (i.e. *Why is there death & suffering in general?*). It acknowledges the limits of science unlike Evolutionists who make science out to be some kind of know-it-all god. The only thing that real science can tell us about death & suffering is that it exists. Game over, you lose. If you don't believe me, you Evolutionist try to tell me in purely naturalistic, materialistic scientific terms *why* (causation, not purpose) death & suffering exist.
To be fair, there are Christians who subscribe to ID who would like to Christianize it, but they are totally wrong to do so. ID is a scientific movement that is inevitable if one is to follow the scientific evidence we now have. ID doesn't claim to have the answers to your accusatory questions. So what? That doesn't make it any less valid. That only means it does not claim to know about these things & that science has defined limits. It only claims that according to the scientific evidence it makes sense to deduct that there was a Designer. (There's too much order to ignore, despite the chaos of which you speak.) It doesn't claim to know who or what that is or why a Designer seemed to have been so sloppy, just that a Designer exists.
You would do well to acknowledge the objective fact that science has limits like our ID friends. Then perhaps you could search & find the answer to death & suffering you're looking for.
2007-06-20 19:01:50 · answer #5 · answered by Sakurachan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God created this world to be perfect, but when sin entered, it messed everything up. Have you ever read the Bible? Did you know that until Noah and the flood, it had NEVER rained on earth? The plants got their water from a mist that rose from the ground. Everything you listed as your examples I see as direct results of sin, and its effects on the world and humans alike. So go ahead and call me deluded, but Yes I believe that God is there, and that He made us. Sin has made us what we are today.
2007-06-20 18:38:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Im afraid the answer to your ultimate question is a resounding YES. *sighs*....
7 out of 10 pregancies end in spontaneous abortion, often with the mother being unaware of the preganacy. This makes God the worlds most prolific abortionist.
2007-06-20 18:36:06 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sin. Don't forget that our planet is still under the curse brought by sin in the Garden of eden. God will return and restore the planet to its original state where there will be no natural disasters of any kind. Have faith in God. the change is coming. Be patient.
2007-06-20 18:38:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Or how 'bout those friggin' wisdom teeth that do nothing except cause pain?
Or other vestigal organis, like the appendix, whose only "intelligently designed" purpose seems to be exploding in order to kill people.
2007-06-20 18:35:20 · answer #9 · answered by Minh 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Apparently all that is the end result of two naked teens eating fruit from a tree that they weren't supposed to eat from (at the request of a talking snake).
And to think I used to believe that.
2007-06-20 18:41:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋