So all this suffering in this world is so that God could be loved?
In other words, God wants unconditional love and obedience from his creation. He wanted to create free will beings that will love him more than they love themselfs?
Okay, so why doesn't he come down and teach us? A book is not enough. Satan is confusing humanity according to the bible. Why does God make it so hard.
Why didn't he set up a school so that we can learn to live. Why didn't he teach us like a parent teaches his kids day after day, year after year.
Yes, the bible exists, but it almost worthless because each people intreprets the bible their own way. I can say Jehovah's Witnesses understand the bible the best but nobody would believe me.
There is to much suffering in this world, Children are conditioned from birth so that they find it hard to believe in the God of the Bible. Doesn't God see that we need better help in order to love him?
It is so overwhelmingly fustrating!
2007-07-25 04:55:36 · 19 answers · asked by sfumato1002 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
WOULDN'T LIFE BE BETTER IF GOD OPENLY TEACHED US AND WE KNEW HE REALY EXISTED?
2007-07-25 04:57:31 · update #1
It is about Obedience.
Satan told God that he is a liar in front of all creation.
He said that God protects his people and if he did not protect them they would not continue to worship him.
The book of Job is a tiny insight of the universal inportance of what is taking place in the Heavens and on the Earth.
Job 1:10.11 - "Have not you yourself put up a hedge about him and about his house and about everything that he has all around? The work of his hands you have blessed, and his livestock itself has spread abroad in the earth. But, for a change, thrust out your hand, please, and touch everything he has [and see] whether he will not curse you to your very face.”
2007-07-26 03:19:13 · answer #1 · answered by keiichi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can go on and on and on about "WHY" God did things the way he did. One word came to mind reading you're question and that is faith which by definition is confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, an idea, or a thing. I believe that what separates believers from non believers is our undying faith in God and that's all he really wants. Do bad things happen to good people? Absolutely but, this does not mean that God is unjust maybe God lets bad things happen for a greater purpose that our human minds can not grasp at this time. Everything in life has a balance down to the most little thing. Now if there is evil in the world (which is easier to believe and focus on) there would have to be a balance of good as well.
Here is a link that explains this a lot better than I could hope it helps!
http://www.lectionarysermons.com/suffering.html
God Bless
2007-07-25 12:19:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer to why God does not come down? SIN God is holy and turns his face from the way of sin that is why after Adam and Eve sinned they could not walk with God anymore. Then Christ Jesus came to teach and Love, and what did they do to him crucifyed him. At times in our life we commit sin and we dont get by with paying for those sins. The n again things happen for unexplaned reason such as a death or a terrible car wreck, when we pray for people to be saved we ask God what ever it takes. Now think about how many have come to know the Lord thrugh bad stuff happening. So see thngs that we dont understand God does. WE just need to trust him. The bible does tell us that he will not let nomore than we can handel come upon us. Dont think that god makes bad things happen cause he dont but he do alow things to come to try our faith. without bad times we wouldnt know the good times and we would forget God if it were all good all the time. I pray hardest through trials so i thank God for keeping me in check. And Jehova's witness dont believe the whole bible they say on 144,000 r going to heaven so why r they out woring so hard, and hell do exsist read the bible on all refrencess to hell.
2007-07-25 12:14:00 · answer #3 · answered by Jen 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah that would really help. as a person who doesn't go to church and wasn't brought up religusly, i find it hard to believe in a god sometimes. like right now my 8 year old cousin died this morning, and his brother who was also 8 died about a year ago, they had the same desease. i find that i question the fact of wiehter the is a god or not. why would hedo something like this. if only god would teach us himself we wouldn't have these questions or doubts. why does he have to test us using these two boys.
2007-07-25 12:04:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My brother always says to me "What kind of loving God murders His own Son to fix the problems He Himself created?" Why did Christ have to sacrifice Himself in order for humans to get to Heaven? Why not just be like " Okay, ya'll can get to Heaven if you love me." After all , He is God, why didn't He just make it be so? Not really an answer for you because...I just don't know
2007-07-25 12:04:45 · answer #5 · answered by Chasn 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
imo, it's supposed to be hard. you want it easy? when you get things easily you don't realise their worth. He sent someone to teach us. you know how that went. now we have to teach ourselves. we have free will so the suffering is done by ourselves. you have to endure pain and suffering to realise what love(or whatever the opposite of pain is) really is.
the bible is interpreted differently by different people. i think it's how you understand it. who knows...
would you give a kucf if you had it easy? would you know that a dollar is hard work to earn if you can have it everytime you wanted to? it's just more interesting this way.
2007-07-25 12:04:08 · answer #6 · answered by Guest01 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God gave us free will and we create our own suffering. As for the children, the Bible says that God will punish to the fourth generation. What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger.
2007-07-25 12:00:54 · answer #7 · answered by Stacy R 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jehovah Witnesses understand "THEIR" version of the bible, not the true Holy Word of God
2007-07-25 16:07:29 · answer #8 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Holy Apostolic Catholic Church
The catachism is Christs' teachings, The Holy Spirit guides her
2007-07-25 11:59:17 · answer #9 · answered by Gods child 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
There was an immensely rich, powerful king who fell in love with a poor peasant girl. She didn't know the king had seen her and taken stock of her character and situation. She was desperately poor and had no social skills or standing whatsoever. The king wondered how he could win her love.
If he came as king to her hovel, she might respond only for the wealth and prestige marriage would bring. He could never know if she loved him. If he commanded her to come to his palace, she might be so embarrassed and frightened that she would run away. So he devised a plan.
The king shed his robes, donned tattered rags, did a bit of farming work to get his nails dirty etc, then wandered into the girl's village. He took a menial job and lived out in the open. He got to see her more and more and, gradually, built up a friendship with her. She began to fall in love with him. He proposed to her, and she accepted. It wasn't till then that he revealed who he really was, and because her love was genuine, she wasn't frightened.
God moved in our midst in the person of Christ, showing us the love of God by dying for our sins, which separated us from God. He was one of us, suffering more than any other human ever has - and all for love's sake. Those who love Christ see the issue of suffering from God's point of view, not their own. But if we cannot recognise God in Christ reconciling ourselves to him, we wouldn't believe even if God spelled it out the way you ask.
Understanding the Bible is not a matter of knowledge - study - but of KNOWING God through the life and work of Christ. Even the most uneducated, simple person can know God by getting to know and love Christ in his humility. JWs treat salvation as a head-trip and conforming to their Society's doctrines, yet less than point 1% of them want to be with Christ! They have no desire to be with him in heaven! They want earthly pleasures instead. Consider Christ alone, my friend!
2007-07-25 12:14:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋