Christians, why would God create the world in such a way that most of its inhabitants would end up in hell? Many are never even exposed to the christian bible. Why not create a world in which everyone is given an opportunity to know the teachings of christianity? Also, when the starving child prays for food and the football player prays for a good game and only the latter is given what he asks for, doesn't that strike you as a bit of a mixup in priorities on God's part? Give the kid some food, for God's sake! God is supposed to have the power to directly intervene, yet the kid has no food. I don't get it.
2007-06-27 12:52:14 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Clearly, an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent god does not exist.
2007-06-27 12:55:23 · answer #1 · answered by Minh 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You're asking the wrong group. You are confusing the Christian conception of God with the Eastern conception of God. This is common even for young Christians. The Christian God is not any of those things in the sense they are used in the East.
However, to answer why such a God would "create" such a world:
He wouldn't. It would HAVE to exist, along with the perfect one you describe, along with every kind of world.
Being all powerful, such a being wouldn't be called "all-powerful" just to be "able to do anything". He would DO everything. Everything that could be done (potential) would actually be done. No potential, all actual. Unicorns would exist. There would be places where NO evidence of God would exist, where many gods existed, etc. If any possibility were left out, that would be one thing that God does not do and thus God would not be all-powerful.
We use the term "all-knowing" this way. It doesn't mean, God COULD know anything. It means he knows EVERYTHING. Actual, not potential.
This world is a necessary extension of the very nature of God. Heaven exists. Hell exists, reincarnation exists. From another perspective, they don't. In fact, there would have to be perspectives from which it would be impossible for such things to exist.
Funny that our physics research is starting to come to some of these same ideas by way of mathematics and study of sub-atomic particles.
None of this is proof, and depends on assuming that such a "being" exists, but if they do, we, you, me, all have to as well.
2007-06-27 20:09:48 · answer #2 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
HI dad here GOD said its called free choice we are not puppets the first time his children screw up his plan thy got kick out of heaven the 2ND out of the garden free food no work there it water it self 3time a flood but he told Norah he would ding do it again by the way do know what kind of lights Norah had on the ark ... flood lights ,,, so a family of righteous people started again and they still was not puppets so he res come that free choice again we humans Shir have a way of ruin GODS plan p.s. GOD said no more floods hey scientist if you cant bend light how come GOD did a rainbow the Bible can tell you why the bible has philosophy cosmology the sun and moon and stars the one unknown GOD on mt lop in Greece history Jew Palestine Porty pas alms wisdom provers that's for the guy who thinks we are not well read as for the children operation blessing is feeding the children with my 80 dollars donation what are you doing to feed the kids t.b.n.org will help just tell them whereto send the food luv dad
2007-06-27 20:22:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How do you know most inhabitants will end up in Hell? Everyone will have the opportunity, if not in this life, then after. It is all a test. You could give the kid some food, after all that is what Christ said,
Matthew 25
34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
2007-06-27 20:08:30 · answer #4 · answered by Someone who cares 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. God made it this way on purpose. he gives us free will. if we don't choose to follow him, we end up in hell. because we didn't make the right choice.
2. I am a Christian, and my duty is to spread the gospel of Jesus to everyone, so that they will b able to make the choice to follow Jesus or not....
3. God is perfect and has everything the way it is for a purpose. his plan is perfect, and to us, it may seem a bit mixed up or strange( because there have been many times where i myself have questioned God's will for my life) but God knows what he's doing, and to him, his plan is prefect, and everything will unfold in time. we just have to be patient.
4. If you are so worried about the starving kid, give some food your self. it's not that god is too busy, but if god gave us everything we needed and wanted in an instant -POOF!- we wouldn't appreciate god when we ACTUALLY REALLY needed him, because we would just b expecting it all the time. make sense?
2007-06-27 20:07:45 · answer #5 · answered by myhearthero11 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
catholics (i don't know about all other christian religions) believe god gave everyone free will to do as they please so if people end up in hell then that's their fault. basically you only get help if you ask for it and pray to be christ-like. i am a catholic and i go to catholic school but i don't believe most of the stuff i'm taught. i don't think that praying has anything to do with things that happen. i think things just happen by chance and not through prayer. i never pray for the things i want or need but i get them anyway.
2007-06-27 21:08:28 · answer #6 · answered by love is my religion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope that I can make sense of what I want to say. Football game first: the team prays and as they do they feel power and drive to get on te field and play. this causes them to play better and as a result they do. It is a belief that helps this to happen. That child has been crying and you see an ad that tells you that God is calling YOU to send money to sponsor that child. That call was for you to be God's hands on earth and you .............
2007-06-27 20:21:22 · answer #7 · answered by lakelover 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A very good example of how people expose their ignorance when they continue to try and live by the BS religions of 2000 to 5000 years ago.
2007-06-27 20:01:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because life is not directed by some almighty puppeteer. It's all luck, random chance and directed effort. Your examples are fine reminders of how important it is to strive for what you want, as opposed to praying to an invisible sky pixie.
2007-06-27 19:57:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
here we go, your gonna get so much bu!!sh!it from this i hope you realise
thing is like this its not true but its messed up and your going to get loads of reasons that are crap
2007-06-27 19:58:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋