God has a great sense of humor, doesn't she?
2007-06-27 12:04:45
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answered by repstat 3
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I have been grappling with the same issue. If anyone has any insight...please tell me. I came across this site which explains it. http://www.histruth.org/books.html
However, these are the kind of answers that scare me the most. This does NOT sound like a loving, caring God. This sounds like an evil dictator...telling us to obey or he will make us suffer. We diobeyed him in the garden of eden and now God will let whatever be...be. God will stand by and watch us suffer and die of cancer. He will allow babies to be born with Aids and die with blood pouring from all their orifices. But he loves us?! If god is all powerful and loves us SO MUCH why can't we just be in heaven with him NOW...why do we have to go through life on Earth? If the only answer you can give me is that we are sinners then please, spare it because I don't want to be in heaven with a God who would stand by and watch us suffer...he put us here to suffer...?! How messed up is that?! And oh yeah Free will..okay whatever. Free will may explain why God does not intervene when say, a bomber hijacks a plane. But free will does not explain cancer, Aids etc. And free will...again...why should we even NEED free will? Why are we even HERE on earth in the first -lpace? No reason unless God is an evil dictator who created us to serve his needs and do whatever he tells us to do....since we displeased him, he lets us suffer. And doesn't God have a divine plan? What about that? Suffering, death, being blown to smithereens during a jet crash...those are parts of a "divine" plan?
And also, please don't quote scripture...I've read the Bible...and it was written by MEN not by God...and it contradicts itself ad nauseum...not to mention the Gospels that are left out...buried in the desert for centuries.
Yeah, I gotta tell ya, I am having a hard time believing in a GOOD God.
2007-06-29 19:48:58
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answered by Anonymous
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I used to think that way until I became wiser. I realized that we ourselves, through the choices that we make, invite positive or negative energies to come to us. Even if we encounter misfortunes, the attitude to take is acceptance.
Remember the Amish community when they found their children had been ravaged by a rapist? They grieved but they accepted their fate with total surrender. They were a prayerful people, yet it happened to them.
If we have a positive mindset, misfortunes even become a positive thing. Instead of blaming God or other people, we are able to keep moving on with a happy heart. Freedom from suffering is a product of a happy mind that does not judge, find blame or nurture hatred and scorn.
And the beautiful thing about this is that this holds true, whether or not you believe in God!
2007-07-05 01:13:33
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answered by larkton 3
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Great philosophers have asked this question thru the ages and Job of the Bible was one of them. Job was the master sufferer. Job 36:15 states "but those who suffer He (God) delivers in their suffering; He speaks to them in their affliction" Does suffering teach lessons that can be aquired no other way? Remember God sees you as a child, adult and dying soul all at once.You are indeed coming to terms with the universe, one way or another. Blessings..................
After the last comment I remembered this "Sometimes the righteous are taken out of the world early and everyone ask Why?"
2007-07-05 15:06:09
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answered by Ju ju 6
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God has created a world with opposites for balance. Where there is death, there is life. Sadness, happiness...etc
He has also created a world of Free Will. Its all in how you look at it, It's not that God "lets" bad things happen, we do and Evil does. He just cleans up the mess after wards.
Say a child is born and suffers from a terrible illness and dies, who's to say that is horrible. Maybe God brought that child into the world for a purpose that was for filled by death. Possibly to save someones Else's life. God has a reasonable and beautiful explanation for everything he does, or does not do. It is none of our business why he makes the decisions he does. Have you ever asked your parents why, and heard "because I said so." Some things are just for our own best interest and can not nor need not be explained or debated.
Take for example John Walsh (America's most Wanted) His lose of his son brought about the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. And America's most Wanted. The passion that Mr. Walsh felt from his tragedy drove him to want to help change the world. Sadly it had to be him and his son that had to endure the tragedy for the good that has come about. But if not him, than who? had to be him. Was the plan for his life from the beginning. Adam did not dye in vain, rather to save many life's and bring the ones responsible for their evil to justice in this life. Any way, just my opinion.....
2007-06-27 19:41:56
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answered by LuvinLos 5
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In less than half century from now--if we do not trash the place by our various destructive capabilities and ridiculous beliefs--your question will be utterly meaningless.
The science of modern astronomy is about to blow the top off all religions, very soon. Why do so few people realize this?
To non-answer your question (and yes, I am a non-believer, as ALL peoples of the near future will be because of the incoming deluge of "truth" coming in from astronomy, from "out there"), God allows horrific suffering because he doesn't exist!
A person only fifty years from now will see your question something like this (and imagine you were this future person looking back on your question): "Can someone tell me why Zeus lets such horrific suffering..."
Get my picture?
Your belief is contextual, temporal, not truth!
God is not real. Suffering is real!
Stop believing in things without evidence--start helping the world rid itself of bad behavior by demanding evidence for these ridiculous beliefs some humans have!
Please, please do not be afraid to not believe in ridiculous things!
2007-07-04 00:44:17
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answered by Crawl 2
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You know that is the same question I asked God, when a bunch of Men, if you want to call them that, Murdered my oldest Grandson at the age of 23, years old? I even asked him why didn't he choose me instead of my Grandson, when his Life was just starting and mine was almost over. Back to your question, it also makes me soo, angry when harm is done to children, why do they have to suffer since they are innocent, and should be able to enjoy Life, and Happiness. But my guess is as good as yours, Jesus, said "suffer the little Children to come unto me."
2007-07-05 01:48:03
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answered by a.vasquez7413@sbcglobal.net 6
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You've asked one of the biggest question there is.
The key is that God allows things. Some people think God gives cancer to a little kid, or causes a little old lady to die in a fiery car crash. It's not "causes," it's "allows."
God created a world where there are dangers, and where bad luck happens. If there were no dangers, there wouldn't be life as we know it. It is important that there should be risks and dangers in the world, just as it is important that man have free will to take risks, free will to make mistakes. I can't imagine life without this.
In the story of Noah, in the book of Genesis, man has made such a terrible mess of the world, that God destroys the world and starts over.
2007-06-27 19:09:41
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answered by Anonymous
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We forget that we all suffer and die. We either do so over a long period (adults) of time or a short period (children). There may be extended periods of comfort and happiness during our adult life, but the point is we all suffer. The longer we are here, the more lessons we get to take in. Death is not the end at all, it is just the end of being on Earth. We still exist and we are still ourselves after we pass on.
2007-06-27 19:25:07
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answered by Wait a Minute 4
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It's funny you should mention that. I asked one of my gods that very question, and it said that it frankly didn't care much at all what we did with ourselves.
One of the others considered it a tragedy, although it was beyond her power to save everyone. Another said that he'd get to the survivors soon enough. One said that I should mind my own business. And the last observed that to have everything is just as sure a means of destruction as having nothing.
And for the record, I'm not sure I'm entirely happy with those answers either. But at least they seem to reflect the way the world IS.
Of course different religions will have different views on the issue. I'm sure some of them will even try to suppress mine. That's okay. Reality doesn't care whether you believe or not... it always exists regardless.
2007-06-27 19:07:28
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answered by Doctor Why 7
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I wonder the exact same thing. I just like to think that children that suffer will hopefully leave this weird place and go somewhere a lot better, leaving us behind.
2007-06-27 19:08:10
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answered by Chelsea 3
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