2007-08-14 02:28:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If the universe was created by an all-powerful being, that being is not all-good.
If God is both all-powerful and all-good, why is there so much suffering in the world?
Why does God inflict earthquakes, floods, famines, and the Black Death upon us?
Why does he give small children cancer?
Why does he make life so grindingly miserable for so many?
Why does he arrange for millions of us to end our lives horrendously scarred—in many cases both physically and psychologically crippled—by the world he created for us?
This hardly sounds like the behavior of a supremely compassionate and loving father figure, does it?
Surely, there’s overwhelming evidence that the universe is not under the control of a limitlessly powerful and benevolent character.
2007-08-14 16:29:27 · update #1
Because believers don't have the same definition of "good" as we do. Good = God. Therefore whatever God does (i.e. kill unbelievers, stone adulteres etc.) is good by definition.
2007-08-14 02:36:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"All acts of [G]od" are "malevolent"?
Hmmmm ... do you consider the creation of the earth and everything/everyone on it to be malevolent? Probably not. How about all the beautiful and good things -- are they malevolent? Guess what: the Bible says that God created everything. So how can ALL of God's acts be evil when He clearly creates good?
2007-08-14 10:12:41 · answer #2 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
So I guess healing the sick,making the blind see, and saving his people from slavery are all evil and mean things to do , right?
2007-08-14 10:17:03 · answer #3 · answered by arcomart 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"acts of god" is just another way of saying "natural disasters"
2007-08-14 09:51:06 · answer #4 · answered by Matthew 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋