If God truly exists?

Question

why does he turn his back on the most faithful, pious people from impoverished nations?
Allow thousands of children to die needlessly?
Allow the wicked to not be punished?

Surely these cannot be dismissed as being according to the mystery of his will?
IF these are then his will- is God then not benevolent at all but capricious, vain and contrary (assuming God exists at all)?
Or is God merely a construct of man and man's emotional immaturity to find solace in the essentially meaningless and infinitesimally total non-importance of our individual lives and provide some hope of immortality beyond the profane?

I was C of E as par for the course but I had the extreme misfortune of education at Catholic school. So I know all about the contradictions of the Bible, the saints, the sacraments, Parables and other artifices.
As a thinking person I simply came to the conclusion that religion's hypocrisies outweigh any faith, therefore he (or any supreme being) is non-existent.
We simply exist, procreate defecate, consume and die. That's all. Nothing special- we're just bald apes that chatter well and mastered tools.

Christian think-tank- what a witty oxymoron.
That's like a peace-loving muslim?
A tolerant orthodox-hindu?
A generous rabbi?

Answer 1

True, god commited genocide in the bible, murdering thousands. Satan killed 10 people.

Answer 2

Life was not meant to be easy. It challenges all facet of the human personality and spirit to the most intense degree. The world is full of serious problems, that are not being addressed. We are suppose to contribute to, making this world a better place, and we are not doing so well. Pain and hardship, along with comfort and pleasure, are all parts of the experience of life. One can get tough and learn to handle the rough side of life, and get motivated to improve on these unpleasant conditions. God is the universal spirit that holds the universe together, as one. God did not create perfection, but made a world challenging to the maximun degree. We are responsible for the conditions in this world. God can guide and inspire us. We are capable of doing a lot if we would only live up to our fullest capabilities. People who have not had their spiritual senses dulled, by the excessive materialism and over indulgence in our society, can feel God presence. Logic has to work with assumptions. Assumptions come from our senses. Somethings we just know exist.

Answer 3

I think God gave us free will, so we mustn't blame him for the things that mankind does. You have to come to him through faith, not because he orders it. There would be little point in that, he would be like a Dictator, and we would be mere pawns. Also, if things went wrong, we would merely blame God, It would never be our fault. The body has to suffer to improve the spirit. In the non-physical world, your faith turns you into what you believe. It is the law of opposites at work, like the meek shall inherit the earth. It is when you think God has turned against you, that you are most tested. If there were guarantees, we would all be compliant, because there was a known payback.

Answer 4

The christian belief, god gave man right to do as he wishes allowing man to make his own decisions, that it is mans fault for everything that is "going on" in the world.
This belief contradicts itself continually. god created earth, yet lets it ruin? he LOVES all his children, yet they starve? So it is to say, that god gave man a choice, but what choice do the children have, so one day some man made an unwise decision about food, and its need, so god allows all the innocent to suffer because of a mans mistake. He gives them some guidance with the ten commandments, but does not impress that they should follow them, except to say read um, and follow them or else you burn in hell when you die, for all eternity. Where is the love.
christianity is plainly made up, somebody needed something to do, they felt they needed some kind of purpose. According to christians, god gave man all control, of earth, animals and beings, rules, life in general. I'd say this christian god is not real. and did any christian really think, that this god they are always pushing on others, sounds like a very lazy god.


Jasmine D: with all respect, why does your god wish to test your faith?? Is the human life just a game to him, its you that has to live it. So it is basically that god is mean, cruel, murderer, hater. You are making it worse, by saying he tests. It is making it look as though he is just one big bully god, trying to run the yard.

Answer 5

There's really no mystery. God is the figment of a deranged imagination.

The God Myth thrives on mysery and misfortune. If you're suffering, you should pray. If you're not you should pray for those who are. Whenever possible, you should make some token gesture to make people think that you have done something useful on Gods behalf as part of Gods mysterious plan.

These things keep the myth alive.

-SD-

Answer 6

One does not need the belief in a god or gods so as to live a moral and meaningful life.
Realizing that one is part of and not separate from all of the cosmos, from all of existence and living so as to do no harm to the same in mindful awareness and consciousness is far from meaningless.

Members of the three major monotheistic faiths would tell you that their god expects his followers and the adherants of these faiths to help their brothers and sisters in the here and now while living in the hope of a salavation and blesings in a hereafter.
They would also say that the wicked are puncihsed, in the afterlife of a heaven or hell.
All would subscribe to the idea that such events as the death of innocents, whether done directly by humankind in violence towards other humans or caused by natural disasters is the will of their god and perhaps is his way of calling others to awarenss of the need to care for others and, through their sense of compassiona and empathy move them in that direction.

This one would tell you that each individual makes choices of how that one sees reality, how that one acts with and re-acts to reality and each must therefore accept responsibility and the consequences of that one's choices (karma).
One has no need to blame some mythological supreme being for the failing of one's self in respect to how that one behaves towards others.

God and gods, along with religion were devised by man to serve as answers for the then unanswerable. It was an effort to come to an understanding of where we came from, how things began and what happens to us when we die, etc., as well as to explain the world of natural phenomena during a period of human history when mankind did not have science, or the methodology to understand the same.
Our ability to understand has greatly increased as has our knowledge. The old myths have given way to science.
Unfortunately, too many individuals, as well as societies, countrieds and governments have opted to be personaly blind to science, as well as to the moral teaching of religion.
Mankind is making a collective choice for ignorance and complacency. The responsibilities and consequences of such will be very serious if this trend does not turn around. Such will not be the fault of the gods. It will be the fault of mankind.
Don't blame the gods.

May it all be well with you.

Answer 7

I'm sure someone will talk about puny humans 'not understanding the will of god', or we have 'free will' to help the children of the world or not.

All I can figure is, if its good, its god, if its bad, its free will or satan.
And the bible only makes sense to those who have 'the holy spirit'.



And look at all the other answers about 'free will' LOL

Answer 8

why are people so reluctant to accept that sometimes negative events must occur and do have a point.

>>"Allow thousands of children to die needlessly?"<<

who are you to say that there is no purpose or need? you can see and appriciate every effect that these deaths have on a universal scale?

>>"Allow the wicked to not be punished?"<<
and you can also see everything that happens to that person, in this life and the next?

why do people assume that which they can see is all there is, and that the deductions they can make on what they see of things, must be true?

Answer 9

I don't want to believe in any God who is so vain that he insists people worship Him and noone else. I also fail to understand the concept of a God that gives us all the means to reproduce but then condems sexuality as a sin!!

Religion is obviously contridictory and silly because it has been devised by different people over many years and has been constantly altered and tweaked as the world evolves.

Answer 10

This is a a question I've asked before, and what hacks me off is when people tell me that 'God works in mysterious ways' because I think if he exists, its not mysterious, its having priorities wrong. So I stay open-minded and I ll find out why when I get there, if he really exists

Answer 11

I think your final paragraph gives a powerful arguement for the existence of God- provide me with an alternative, and I'll believe!