2007-09-01 05:26:13 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If God was willing but unable, God is impotent. If God was able but unwilling, God is sadistic. Neither alternative is very good.
2007-09-01 05:31:43 · answer #1 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 6⤊ 2⤋
I've never read such rubbish as some of these answers.
I know someone who lost his entire family in Auschwitz; he still has the number tattooed on his arm. I can assure you that he certainly doesn't believe that the concentration camps 'made the world a better place'.
I'm sorry, but I can only assume that some of you have never read or studied first hand accounts of what actually took place in those camps. Pregnant women were cut open - without anaesthetic. Children were used in 'experiments' - and tortured before dying. People were made to watch while their loved ones were mutilated. Human skin was used to make, among other things, soap.
The things that happened in those camps are so vile it is hard to believe that any human being could have performed s such gruesome acts - but the Nazis did.
So don't anybody dare try and tell me that the slaughter of six million innocent Jews, and the millions of innocent non Jews who also died in the camps, is something that is 'positive', or that as one person insists, the 'suffering' is over.
Those that survived are traumatised for life, and they will never see their dead relatives again. The children of Holocaust survivors also have a seriously tough time.
As for the original question about G-d - this cannot be answered. Nobody knows.
2007-09-01 05:49:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was God willing but unable to prevent slavery under Pharaoh, or able but unwilling? We have no right to question the motives and actions of the Almighty. I know this God of Israel, He is my God too. When I made this commitment to know Him as I would a potential mate, great mysteries that I had often wondered about where made known and clear to me. You where not there and I can tell by your question that you are still a babe in my Fathers word. Many of Gods children are willing to suffer at great lengths even death if need be so that others may be made known of the atrocities and wickedness of evil souls. They know too that there is a better resting place than they have ever know before and that life in the flesh is like unto a vapor of smoke, that life in Christ is everlasting, incorruptible, and eternal; without pain or suffering.
2007-09-01 05:51:41 · answer #3 · answered by Barney 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is another option: God was able, but didn't, because if God was always dropping in to fix our problems, no other humans would do anything for each other.
And there's also another reason: Humans have free will. If we are not free to decide, AND face the consequences of our actions, we don't truly have free will, and nothing we does matters.
2007-09-01 06:01:18 · answer #4 · answered by Terial 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there was a god, Auschwitz wouldn't have happened - neither would any mass murders...
We live in a human world with people making human decisions. There is no "grand puppeteer" pulling the strings.
To believe otherwise is foolish and ignorant.
2007-09-01 05:35:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
God is not the ruler of this world. Satan is. Man and Satan made it clear by rejecting the one law Adam and Eve had they thought they could rule themselves better than God so He has allowed time for the matter to be settled.
Auschwitz is just one of the many proofs man does a lousy job of self-rule.
Fortunately, God promises to restore things when He takes over again.
2007-09-01 06:41:16 · answer #6 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Soul's are eternal, and do not die when our bodies are killed. In fact soul's are not effected by anything physical which happens to the body.
As no soul died, nobody was really harmed. Psycologically, trauma is an aspect of memory. Memory is relient upon the brain. Once the brains of those whom lived through Auschwitz are gone, all the memories of suffering will have died with them. Souls are reincarnated or liberated. Reincarnates have no power to remember past lives, and so conciously no Auschwitz survivors are permanently scared.
God allows free will. Within the material world, only karma can stop you from doing something bad. Other than that, you can try to do anything bad you please. You only hurt your own spiritual progress by doing so.
2007-09-01 05:39:34 · answer #7 · answered by Yoda 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
From my understanding, He prevented many such catastrophes. That one got through because people didn't believe it could happen and didn't ask God to stop it.
For instance, in Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham asked God, "if there were 40 people in this town who believed and prayed, would you stop it?" God said yes. "If there were 30, would you stop it?" God said yes. "If there were 20..?" "Yes". "10?" "Yes."
No one asked Him to stop it because they didn't believe God could do it if they asked.
People prayed at the time it started happening, but that is not the same as doing something about it before it happens. And people know. They just do nothing. Doing nothing is evil.
2007-09-01 05:36:28 · answer #8 · answered by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
auswitz did more good to the world than one might assume. the horrors portrayed there lay the ground work, and formed the motivation for convention for the rights of man in geneva, and the neurenberg trials. both laying the ground work for international laws regarding morals and values.
Secondly, the secondworld war, and hte holocaust, motivated the western countries, to form the united nations, a public forum that was to govern international law. The horrors of the second world war, made the united nations succeed where the league of nations failed (at the end of the first world war)
the total effect of the second world war was to usher in a peace that has so far lasted over 60 years. i think the real question you should ask, would stopping auswitsch make the world a better place? its all very subjective...
2007-09-01 05:32:44 · answer #9 · answered by mrzwink 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
God is in finished administration of each thing and everyone. God enables each thing to take place that happens. God supplies to all of us each thing that they want on a daily basis. nutrition, water, air, hearth etc etc. no longer something happens that God isn't on top of problems with. God plans each thing. God is all understanding, all-powerful, all smart, God is the main effective of all. God instructions all adult males to repent and have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
2016-12-12 15:15:10 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋