With endless suffering throughout history it would seem that G/god really doesn't intervene in the affairs of man. He seems so impartial that his own begotten Son would feel suffering without any intervention. Does this mean that a million human lives could be wiped out and they would be no more important than the life of an ant? If so, then maybe an ant's life is just as important as a human life, or that an ant's life is just as unimportant as a human life. Whatya think?
2007-07-04 10:23:03 · 15 answers · asked by Bogey 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes.
2007-07-04 10:25:43 · answer #1 · answered by dddbbb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not indifferent. Equating indifference with impartiality, means that you do not know the difference between free-will and justice.
Humanity is given free-will and is responsible for the actions taken....That is if humanity wants to kill an ant or millions of human beings, God will not intervene.
God will also Judge and execute final justice, and those that kill an ant or millions will be eternally judged....
This does not make God indifferent. But human beings that are indifferent, and who do not protest the killing of an ant, or millions of people will also be held accountable.
Maybe your complaint is really about the silent majorities, that just go along with governments that kill millions of people and destroy the environment?
Peace
Robert
2007-07-04 10:33:59 · answer #2 · answered by bobbyhobbit 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a lot of stuff to cover all in one question. Let me try.
I don't believe that God is indifferent. He gave us free will and the ability to learn that our actions have consequences. Occasionally he lets us make bad decisions and suffer the consequences of them.
I have personally seen God take action in the affairs of man. There are many documented cases of prayer being answered. My husband was healed from liver failure overnight becasue of people praying and God listening and intervening. The doctors were baffled. He is still with us. He still cares, listens and acts. We need faith and the courage to really ask.
His Son went through the agony of death so that we don't have to. It was a decision that was made in heaven and witnessed by God, who at the moment of His Son's death, ripped curtains apart in the temple miles away. God felt that pain just as he does when any one of us dies. At the moment of His death, Jesus said "It is finished". He knew.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that a million people's lives is the same as an ant. I don't think God looks at it that way and I know I don't.
I hope you find peace.
2007-07-04 10:32:17 · answer #3 · answered by Susan L 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Based on my own experience, I would say that God does not intervene in the lives of man unless we ask him to intervene....and then only to fit his purpose for us. Many times, his purpose and ours are not the same. In order to accept this, a person must have total trust in God through a personal relationship with Him. I do not believe that God is indifferent to what happens but does not micro-manage the world. It wouldn't make sense that he would stay in charge of everything all the time while telling us that we are free will beings. It would be contradictory.
2007-07-04 10:30:02 · answer #4 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it’s July and God is trying to figure out the line on next year’s Super Bowl winner. Quit bothering him. Do you realize how many potential touchdowns passes would be dropped every year if he just sat back and did nothing? There is a lot of money riding on this and the Big Guy cannot get sidetracked just because of a little human suffering.
2007-07-04 10:33:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello and if we are talking about that little god [little "g"] that in scripture is always for the devil, but if we are talking GOD with "G" then sure it does, in the bible Jesus talking to His and our Father Abba and Abba=Daddy or Papa, it breaks His heart the thought of His kids being lost that is why in Hebrews 1:5-9 The Father calling Jesus God that Jesus was sent and Jesus sent Himself to save WHOSOEVER like it says in the most famous verse of all time John 3:16 would live up to the conditions upon which life is offered can live forever, and the indifference your talking of is not God's but ours, "IF" we Love Him keep His commandments Jn. 14:15 and IF i really care about my millions of people your pointing to here can see Jesus in Me [and you and me is the only place some will ever see Jesus] and we don't care then why call God the one thats indifferent? God bless www.amazingfacts.org
2007-07-04 10:30:46 · answer #6 · answered by wgr88 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He does intervene! Jesus said that we are His body. So if you are a Christian, what are you doing in the fight against evil? Now there are some people that don't want to be a part of his body and so they do evil things. We are not in heaven but are on earth. If heaven was on earth, we would never yearn to be with God in heaven. There has to be a difference between the two.
2007-07-04 10:27:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God spared not His only begotten Son but delievered Him up for all of us, Will He not with Him also freely give us all things (pain,suffering,tribulation) But death is victory except to the foolish that invest everything in this temporary plane of existence that only death is certain.
2007-07-04 10:31:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-07-04 10:29:10 · answer #9 · answered by bobalo9 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, God is terribly grieved whenever anyone is hurt. And when Jesus was crucified, the sky turned black in God's grief. But God also expects us to do His work. That is why we are created, to be a part of the solution.
2007-07-04 10:28:36 · answer #10 · answered by Sharon M 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Indifference is indifference.
To put it mathematically, 0 multiplied by any number remains 0. Sort of morbid way to look at it, but that's how you put it to me, so I'll just blame it on you.
2007-07-04 10:26:39 · answer #11 · answered by Rey Gamberro Salvador 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋