Why does Jesus allow Evil things happen to his followers and believers ?

Question

Did Deanna Laney bash her childrens brains because the bible told her to do it ?

"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." (Psalms 137:9, KJV)

"How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock." (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible)

"Happy the man who shall seize and smash your little ones against the rock!" (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible)

"a blessing on anyone who seizes your babies and shatters them against a rock!" (Psalms 137:9, Jerusalem Bible)


Deanna Laney bashed in her childrens brains with a rock as ordered by GOD.

TYLER, Texas - A jury on Saturday began deliberating whether a homemaker was insane when she used rocks to bludgeon two of her sons to death and severely injure a third after receiving what she claimed were orders from God.
He recounted Joshua's killing: "He got strike after strike after strike on his head to the point that his brains were coming out of his head like liquid."
Defense attorney began her argument by asking the jury why a DEEPLY RELIGIOUS woman would kill two of her children and maim another without so much as a tear.

Laney, who home-schooled her children in the tiny town of New Chapel Hill, 100 miles southeast of Dallas, was convinced she was divinely chosen by God to kill her children last Mother's Day weekend.


http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=53918



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ANDREA YATES - KILLED HER 4 CHILDREN

Much of Andrea’s psychosis had religious imagery. She was obsessed with images of Satan.
About the murders, she told her doctor, "It was the seventh deadly sin. My children weren't
righteous. They stumbled because I was evil. The way I was raising them they could never be saved... Better for someone else to tie a millstone around their neck and cast them into a river than to stumble. They were going to parish [in Hell]." She said that, "Governor [George W.] Bush would have to destroy Satan."


http://www.christianitymeme.org/yates.shtml

http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/05/12/slain.children/

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DENA SCHLOSSER - CUT OFF HER INFANTS ARMS

SHE SAID --- "In the Book of Matthew, Jesus says: "If thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell."


http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2694472&nav=EyAzUDQV

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LISA MONTGOMERY - CUT OPEN A MOTHER - TOOK BABY TO PASTOR

MELVERN, Kan. - A woman charged with killing an expectant mother and cutting the baby from her womb was showing the child off to people at a cafe and to her pastor hours before she was arrested, residents said Saturday.

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Philip Badowski breaks chainsaw while cutting up the bodies of his Christian Missionary Parents


CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Dec 11, 2004 — A college student who admitted he fatally shot his parents in their bedroom and broke a chain saw cutting up their bodies told investigators: "GOD told me to."

He said the killings were "spur of the moment" after his parents scolded him when they returned from a weeklong missionary trip to Haiti.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=321584



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Answer 1

I don't think it was Jesus that these people were hearing. I suppose if you can prove it was you might have a valid question. I think other people that suffer from the same mental illness and have done horrible things have probably said it was the devil that told them, or some other figure.

Answer 2

In the examples given, all of the acts are horrific and all fit the description of Evil. Also, the victims are either the innocent (eg children), or all believers in Jesus.

In Christainity the cross has become, amongst other things, a physical representation of a crossroads for Christians. With each moment in some way everyone faces a crossroads, a choice of how to act.

Whilst on the cross, and still in human form, it is said that Jesus came to the conclusion that the flow of human love was paramount, and that love can only be expressed through free will.

In this state Jesus realised that if he 'stepped in' and stopped people making any 'evil' choices in life, that our free will would be destroyed, and alongside this, that any 'good' choices people made would be devalued as there would be no bad choices anymore. We would not be able to express ourselves or our own nature.

The flip side of this is that our world is not persistantly intervened into by Jesus. If horrors such as those described in the examples were universally and automatically disallowed by Jesus, our own true human nature could never be defined. We would be being spoon-fed an existence with no real choice for us between good and evil.

Answer 3

"Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." (Psalms 137:9, KJV)

"How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock." (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible)

"Happy the man who shall seize and smash your little ones against the rock!" (Psalms 137:9, New American Bible)

"a blessing on anyone who seizes your babies and shatters them against a rock!" (Psalms 137:9, Jerusalem Bible)


Is it necessary to repeat the verses like that?
If you look at the verses surrounding that you will see the verse is not telling the parents to kill their children, you are merely taking the verse out of context... Not only that- the people were obviously psychopaths, they used something to justify their killings, what better than a religion? If they didn't know of Christianity they would use some other religion.

P.S. He allows people to have freewill. It is that person- not GOD, who is responsible.

Answer 4

Not everybody gets the same thing out of the bible. or has thoughts that flow as smoothly as some. and when the thoughts get cought on something , there real hard to get free who knows what the chemical is that causes these snaggs testostrum is a real killer but estrigen kills her share too add a little psychosis on eather side and somebody is going to die 87% of the time it's the person with the psychosis . but every once in a while someone stands between the problem and the solution, that someone winds up dead and the story makes the news.....

Answer 5

So stuff happens. How can you blame God or Jesus?

Doesnt the Bible preach free will? Let me ask you this is it God's fault that Millions of children every year are starving to death?

I dont think so. AND if there's a afterlife which all the christians believe, Maybe just maybe its in God's plan that the baby got her brains bashed in?

I mean come on now if your God and know all the hairs on my head, and that goes for every body and everything on the planet. Dont you think there's more than what meets the eye?

If the baby is in heaven isnt that a better place than NYC?

Answer 6

The examples you cite, if they truly thought they were receiving a command from God, were obviously schizophrenic. Others use this ploy to appear schizophrenic so they can try for an insanity defense. People will say anything to get out of paying the consequences of their evil actions.

Now, if you want to know why, sometimes, even true Christians sometimes have struggles and tribulation, it is because we still have to live in this wicked world and we are not promised that we will be exempt from every trial. What we are promised is described in John 16:33--"In the world ye shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world".

Here, Jesus says that we will have tribulation but that we can have peace because we know that he has better plans for our future that he has made possible by his atoning work on Calvary. Thru his death and resurrection, he conquered death by opening up the prospect of life in heaven with him when we depart this earthly existance.

Answer 7

God is the creator of all things and he will do as he chooses and pleases. Many things he does that mankind will never understand. Simply taking scripture out of context of the story it was written in doesn't justify ones actions either.
God instructs us all to learn to stand against the wiles of the Devil, and we can overcome those attacks if we will only believe the Gospel and learn to pray our way through the attacks of the Devil and the Jezebel spirits.
This is how we all can become a true Christian....by learning to overcome the world and its evil and doing the will of the Father, The Lord Jesus Christ. That is our purpose for being here on this planet.

Answer 8

Motherly infanticide is something often encountered in human studies. I've done cursory investigations on instances of this behavior in many more cases aside from even the examples you've given here. It's important to understand the root of the behavior, rather than the explanation of it given by the perpetrator.

It seems that people will first engage in a certain type of behavior, and then seek to validate it through any means necessary, i.e. religious scripture.

In the natural world, many females will destroy their own offspring for any number of reasons.. whether they are unable to care for them through maturity, find them to be of sub-standard quality due to displeasure with the father, or even something as simple as disdain for the children's continual need for attention which can make the mother feel subordinate to them. Infanticide is found quite often in hunter-gatherer cultures, and is an important mechanism for survival. However, civilized values are contrary to this mechanism and deemed evil. It is important for civilizations to shun such behaviors as infanticide because they are not conducive to a functioning society.

Answer 9

Why are you blaming Jesus for the sins of man? Do you want free will or do you want a God who intervenes in every situation? do you no longer want free will and become robotical? By the act of one (Adam) all are found guilty of sin, but by the act of another (Christ) all can be set free from their sins. God tells us in Psalms that" rain will fall on the just as well as the unjust". As believers we are not spared all tragedies but we are told by God He will neither leave us nor forsake us, we do not go through the troubled waters alone.These tragedies that happen to some of us are very real and often appear to be more than we can bear. But when we compare our time on earth to eternity, I think we need to look at the big picture. Our life is average but 70 years where Eternity is forever, it is written our life is but like a vapor, you see it for an instant then it is gone compared with Eternity which goes forever.

Answer 10

The deception of SATAN ...Matthew chapter 4. Satan knows the words of God and uses it against us. To kill steal and destroy 1 Peter 5:8.

Isaiah 8:19-22. Seeking council from another source.

Answer 11

That's a question for Jesus, not for us.

When we say the universe is just, we're speaking in the ULTIMATE sense. Things might suck in the present, but everything will be made right in the end. I don't know whether you find scripture convincing, but this is what I'm talking about:

"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven
Blessed are they who mourn,
for they shall be comforted
Blessed are the meek,
for that shall possess the earth
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice
for they shal be satisfied
Blessed are the merciful
for they shall obtain mercy
Blessed are the clean of heart,
for they shall see God
Blessed are the peacemakers
for they shall be called children of God
Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice sake,
for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven
Blessed are you when men reproach you, and
persecute you, and
speaking falsely, say all manner of evil against you,
for my sake."