If God created everything ...?

Question

... then why are there Tasers, brussels sprouts, and terrorists in the world?

Sounds fishy to me.

I should hope I'd raise my children not to be murderers. Thanks, have a nice day.

Answer 1

he gave us free thinking. he made Humans. he can't control thinking. people who get in to destructive acts are lost souls.

Answer 2

Well, God didn't create tasers. Man made them out of things God created. Brussels sprouts are good to some people, believe it or not, and terrorists do not follow God. They follow satan. Free will.

Answer 3

Tasers- even if one considers them bad, God at most only created the materials used to make them, He didn't invent them. Therefore, they are, at worst, the result of misuse of free will.
Brussels sprouts- what's wrong with brussels sprouts?
Terrorists- another misuse of free will.

Answer 4

God created everything, however when Eve and subsequently Adam chose to try and be their own god they broke the perfect relationship they had with God. This brought a spiritual and physical death to all generations. All that have come after them, including us today have at some point chosen self over God, this has resulted in the non-perfect things we see in the world. Creation has been scarred by sin. This is why Christ is needed to restore the spiritual relationship and eventually the physical.

Answer 5

People make God laugh about 40 minutes after eating brussel sprouts.

Answer 6

Technically, He created those who create. You are free to reject God without reading His words in any language.

Angels see God. Angels rejected God. see Isaiah 14: 12-17
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2014&version=31

Man created, hears "voice of God", rejects God.

Words given from God, Man rejects God.

God revealed in flesh, after "foreteling", Man rejects God.

Man given 2 thousand years to prove WORTH of forgiveness and grace. Population explosion, religions multiply, evil debated.

Knowledge is increased by Man, Daniel 12:4. (Lately Doubling very fast)

7 years ? given to prove a 1 World System, false ruler, even suffering does not help Man turn to God for forgiveness.

1000 years again proves in a perfect Earth, seeing God, Man will reject God.

Brussel sprouts and Broccoli prove the need for vitamins and minerals.

Maybe terrorists get you thinking about what LOVE is all about, and what Death is going to bring. Benefits?

Answer 7

Tasers are safe and hilarious alternative to firearms.
Terrorists and criminals and those sort are just God's way of saying he loves us.
Brussel sprouts....those are all Satan's doing!

Answer 8

I definitely agree with the brussels sprouts analogy but my father actually likes them.

Answer 9

because GOD GIVES FREE WILL he doesn't control you...maybe your son will grow up to be a murderer and you aren't does that make you not his mother?????



and to kallie the comment above mine the serpent was not satan no where in the book of genesis does it say that satan came in a serpent form it said a serpent came unto eve...and eating of the tree (which probably wasn't a literal tree,I believe it was learning agriculture because then they could create something of their own and have god like abilities over the plants and be able to manipulate the way it grows thats why the serpent said you will be like god )didn't cause sin it caused the knowledge of good and evil so they would then know sin not cause it "cain" committed the first sin in the world.

Answer 10

Because of sin. God wanted everything to be perfect in the world, like it was supposed to be... then Satan, who WAS an angel, rebelled and got kicked out of Heaven, and destroyed Gods plan by causing Adam and Eve to sin.

Answer 11

Do Buddhists believe in a creator god?

No, we do not. There are several logical reasons for this. The Buddha, like modern scientists, sociologists and psychologists, believed that religious ideas and especially the god idea have their origins in fear. The Buddha says:

"Gripped by fear men go to sacred mountains, sacred groves, sacred trees and shrines." *Dhammpada 188

Primitive man found himself in a dangerous and hostile world, the fear of wild animals, of not being able to find enough food, of injury or disease, and of natural phenomena like thunder, lightning and volcanoes was constantly with him. Finding no security, he created the idea of god in order to give him comfort in good times, courage in times of danger and consolation when things went wrong. To this day, you will notice that people become more religious at times of crises, you will hear them say that the belief in a god gives them the strength they need to deal with life. You will hear them explain that they believe in god because they prayed in time of need and their prayer was answered. All this seems to support the Buddha’s teaching that the god-idea is a response to fear and frustration. The Buddha taught us to try to understand our fears, to lessen our desires and to calmly and courageously accept the things we cannot change. He replaced fear, not with irrational belief but with rational understanding.

The second reason the Buddha did not believe in a creator god is because there does not seem to be any evidence to support this idea. There are numerous religions, all claiming that they alone have god’s words preserved in their holy book, that they alone understand god’s nature, that their god exists and that the gods of other religions do not. Some claim that god is masculine, some that she is feminine and others that it is neuter. They are all satisfied that there is ample evidence to prove the existence of their god but they laugh in disbelief at the evidence other religions use to prove the existence of another god. It is not surprising that with so many different religions spending so many centuries trying to prove the existence of their gods that still no real, concrete, substantial or irrefutable evidence has been found. Buddhists suspend judgement until such evidence is forthcoming.

The third reason the Buddha did not believe in a creator god is that the belief is not necessary. Some claim that the belief in a god is necessary in order to explain the origin of the universe. But this is not so. Science has very convincingly explained how the universe came into being without having to introduce the god-idea. Some claim that belief in god is necessary to have a happy, meaningful life. Again we can see that this is not so. There are millions of Atheists, free-thinkers and Buddhists, who live useful, happy and meaningful lives without belief in a creator god. Some claim that belief in god’s power is necessary because humans, being weak, do not have the strength to help themselves. Once again, the evidence indicates the opposite. One often hears of people who have overcome great disabilities and handicaps, enormous odds and difficulties through their own inner resources, through their own efforts and without belief in a god. Some claim that god is necessary in order to give man salvation. But this argument only holds good if you accept the theological concept of salvation and Buddhists do not accept such a concept. Based on his own experience, the Buddha saw that each human being had the capacity to purify the mind, develop infinite love and compassion and perfect understanding. He shifted attention from the heavens to the heart and encouraged us to find solutions to our problems through self-understanding.

But if there is no creator god how did the universe get here?

All religions have myths and stories which attempt to answer this question. In ancient times, when man simply did not know, such myths were adequate, but in the 20th century, in the age of physics, astronomy and geology, such myths have been superseded by scientific fact. Science has explained the origin of the universe without recourse to the god-idea.

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