for the horrible things that happen? check out this recent question to see what i mean
http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070724043955AARAMOb&r=w#J5VGDHLGN08RihRfQ3wv
2007-07-24 00:55:43 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
johnathon - what about stillborn babies?
2007-07-24 01:06:02 · update #1
I have been through some horrible pain in my life. Some of it I still don't understand. And it was god's pain to give me. He had some lesson he wanted me to learn from it. I can stand here and yell at him for it and try to hold him responsible for it OR I can deal with the pain, accept it, learn the lesson, and try to be a better person. Granted it is not always easy doing that. And there have been times in my life where I was SO angry at God that I didn't pray or go to church for years at a time. But in the end, I have to have the faith that HE understands and just accept his will.
If I don't accept this, and just say that there is no God, then why did I go through all of that pain? What was the purpose. there can not be that much evil in the world without some type of good to balance it out.
As for stillborn babies and miscarriages, i know what that pain is like. Children are never ours. They belong to god. He gives them to us and he can take them at any time. And that is not my quote I am paraphrasing Job from the old testament. Didn't want to quote the actual bible verse after yesterday.....
2007-07-24 01:56:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was talking to an old woman not too long ago. It was about a plane crash where everybody but a young child died. She was all "praise god" and blah blah but stopped dead in her tracks when I asked "what about the other 123 passengers?".
And the same for this question. Shouldn't she be praising god for the stillborn too?
2007-07-24 08:13:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I don't. Do you hold you're parents responsible for the decisions you make and things that happen to you? If you do that means you are still a child/ like a child. However if you're parents give you a gift, it is only right that you thank them for the gift they gave you.
2007-07-24 08:06:17 · answer #3 · answered by nª†hªn 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Two of the gifts I hold as vitally important is the gift of free will and the gift of the laws of physics. But along with the gift of free will is my ability to harm others as well as help them. And along with the laws of physics is the possibility that the universe may harm people, e.g. volcanos.
So there is nothing to blame on God because I asked for those gifts.
2007-07-24 07:59:01 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew T 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So if a woman gets stabbed on a NYC street, with hundreds of people around, yet no one jumps in to help her, we blame God and not those who wouldn't lift a finger to help?
If someone gets cancer, we don't blame the oil refinery down the street, we blame God?
If an alcoholic or sex addict gets sciross of the liver or HIV we blame God?
Would you feel it is safe to say that often it is other humans, or ourselves that are the root of many bad things, and not God?
2007-07-24 08:03:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
nope because despite turning people to salt, flooding the world raining fire, and brimstone and letting some evil force rip Job's life apart sending plagues down left and right. He is supposedly is a pretty "nice guy"
After all what would give you an idea that all these bad things happen?
2007-07-24 08:05:08 · answer #6 · answered by John C 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
for donya d has god given you a good life so you can say what you said and would you say the same thing if your life given to you by god was just one hell on earth after another. so much for free will
2007-07-24 08:08:00 · answer #7 · answered by papermango 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Job 2:7 So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and struck Job with loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. 8 And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.
9 Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die."
10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
2007-07-24 08:20:47 · answer #8 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
"no, that's satan"
Then I hold god responsible for doing nothing to stop him
I wonder how many of the people below know that we're talking about a stillborn
2007-07-24 07:58:56 · answer #9 · answered by Ghost Wolf 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
No, you can't hold God responsible for peoples wrong actions. God GAVE us everything we have including free will which we are supposed to use for good. If we don't then our bad actions will have bad consequences and there is no one to blame but ourselves.
2007-07-24 08:01:26 · answer #10 · answered by Zahira B 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋