If you saw two men trying to snatch up a child and force her into van, would you answer her screams for help? No because that would interfere with free will.
If your neighbor's house was struck by lightning and they had lost everything, would you help? If you had an infinite amount of food and they were starving? No because they might learn something from watching their kids go hungry.
If you could snap your fingers and cure every birth defect, would you do it? No because that wouldn't test anyone's faith.
If an accident victim was bleeding in the streets, would you help? No, free will and tests of faith and all that.
How can an all powerful god allow so much suffering? The answer is either he/she/it doesn't exist or god is just a sadist.
2007-07-03 20:49:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Um...if you would help those people, why doesn't god? Are you better than GOD? Sarcasm people. Shessh, you're not even trying.
2007-07-03 21:02:34 · update #1
Really, if god is this all-knowing being... he knew ahead of time how all this was going to play out, and yet he did it anyway... to what end? He's like this huge cat with the universe as his mouse. What a sadistic deity. Unworthy of worship, I say!
Satan's fault, you say??? Nonsense... god supposedly created satan too. Still god's fault.
2007-07-03 20:54:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
God's "morality" was 'projected" upon God by those that created God, in their image and likeness, with their values, morals and prejudices. They could no more "snap their fingers and cure a birth defect" than the God they created.
As to helping someone "bleeding in the streets", why risk being sued for trying to help them, than allow them to lie there until qualified medical help arrives and be spared the lawsuit?
2007-07-04 03:55:53 · answer #2 · answered by Always Curious 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nonsense.
There is a revelation that is spoken by the prophets. It tell us about God etc. This is the only information we have, and your issue and example are not biblical.
If you want to adapt from philosophical questions embedded in theology, you have succeeded. You must remember that there are no prophets in philosophy or theology.
Answer: You can not apply Western philosophy to an Eastern book.
2007-07-04 04:00:06 · answer #3 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My free will, says to help those people. If that is what you belive people would do then you need some help. Good morals would tell you to help, even Jesus who was God tells you to help them.
2007-07-04 03:55:52 · answer #4 · answered by Cookyduster 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Exactly. And Rux and Chhaya05, you are the stupid people. And you both have a lot of company.
2007-07-04 03:56:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You should read the Holy Bible if you really want to know the truth. Because you show your ignorance by your questions here.
2007-07-04 03:56:04 · answer #6 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
AMEN *~Rux~*
My free will is to do whatever to help whomever.
Deu 15:7 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Deu 15:8 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Deu 15:9 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
Deu 15:10 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
Deu 15:11 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
2007-07-04 03:54:48 · answer #7 · answered by Chhaya05 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
you are one stupid person;
1- your free will do as you like with it if you have morals you'll help the lil girl
2-you help becuz u have free will and you want to
3-we cant cure defects becus only god is all powerful
4-help becuz we have free will and morals
we cause most of this sufferring in this world, satan tests us but no more than we can endure, majority of suffering caused by humans so stop blaming god for it all
2007-07-04 03:53:53 · answer #8 · answered by *~Rux~* 5 · 2⤊ 6⤋