if you assume god created everything do they include...?

Question

cancer
blindness
diabetes etc

Answer 1

yes. but you see, we have free will so we can actually choose not to get cancer or blindness or diabetes.

it's all quite logical if you're smoking crack.

Answer 2

If God created everything then He created everything.

There is an apparent 'Divine Plan'.
Quite what all the misery in the world is supposed to do is beyond me but then I'm not a Deity.

IF there is a Heaven then (because I am a good person) I shall be going there.
It wont be too long as I'm terminally ill, but when I get there I'll ask God and tell him he got a few things wrong.
If he is all-powerful and omniprescient then he knows everything so I guess I wont need to.

If religion helps you then it's a good thing, if it helps others then it's a good thing, if people are hurt through it then it's being followed wrong.

Answer 3

The other day I saw a BMW by the side of the road. It was covered with rust, the back fender was dragging, the windshield was cracked, and it was surrounded with a haze of blue, oil-burnt smoke. I suspect that the cars condition was not because BMW designed and build it that way, but rather because the owner had failed to care for it.

It is a common belief that God is in charge of everything. But you need go no further then the very first chapter of the Bible to see that it teaches differently. At the time of man's creation God told man to have authority or take dominion over the earth. See Genesis 1:27-30.

Part of this "control" means that man was given the ability to make his own moral choices, but then to have to live with consequences of those choices - good or bad.

One of the things that the first man (and every one since) did was to "sin" - that is to decide to do something that was against the will and rules of God. God warned them in advance that there would be consequences (up to and including death) for sinning. When the first sin was comitted anyways, death was released into the world. And as sin has continued to each following generation, so has death.

The Bible says that sickness and disease is part of the death "consequence" or curse. That things like birth defects, limited immune systems that allows infections and colds, cancer from pollution, diabetes from bad diets, etc. are all a result of the presence of "sin". They may not be the result of that persons individual sin, but are always the results of the existence "sin".

So it is like seeing a junker BMer by the side of the road. It was not designed to be a rust-bucket. But it became that way because of improper care.

Answer 4

I'm the last person to want to stand up and defend blind theism, but I've always found this particular argument (Why does God allow... questions) a bit thin.

Everything in the world works on the basis of cause and effect. We pollute the atmosphere and cause Global Warming: The number of violent tropical storms go up; We eat refined carbohydrates devoid of micro-nutrients: we become obese and get diabetes. Blindness will have a greater number of causes, but there'll still be causes, while cancer is simply uncontrolled cell-growth and mutation, again usually due to pollution, RF radiation, smoking, etc. So again, human causes, mostly.

Even with congenital diseases and disabilities, those birth defects are usually the cause of a vitamin/mineral deficiency, or of mutation for the same reasons as above for the cancer and diabetes, or, or, or.

Bottom line: Natural disasters, personal calamities and other assorted badness has nothing to do with God, whether he/she/it exists or not.

PS. It has NOTHING to do with cause:sin, effect:punishment either. The cause is usually ignorance and the effect, consequence.

Answer 5

Words are powerful and disrespecting this leads to abuse of others and ourselves. If God created everything, that's final, GOD CREATED EVERYTHING.
Thus to call something wrong or evil, judging negativly is ctiticising the work of God.
Suffering is how we learn to pay attention to The Guide Inside, if all was swell we'd never stop and be
God creating everything with God's plan and destination means that EVERYTHING now and always is exactly how it is intended....so there is never an excuse to be negative.
Negativity blinds us to the magic of the moment.
Technically your question is invalid, and you hope to lay a trap for believers. Personally I hear see and feel that anyone with deeper thoughts is looking for same thread. Instead of being divisive, look for the common thread, it is there if you pay attention. eg. what unites believer and atheist

Answer 6

There is a totally different meaning from creation to control. Maybe God did create but he has no control over human activity or illnesses.

Answer 7

The imperfections of sin means that from birth that which is born [ after Adam ], is subjected to death at anytime for thousands of reasons, or deseases or health malfunctions or storms and any variety of disasters in the earth that is no longer life sustaining, and all these kinds of things, as man has no life to sustain and it is not his fault, therefore the promise is salvation from this to the perfection that God wants all to have and the reason he did not wipe it all out but allowed Jesus to be a SAVIOR of the world in the time frame allowed.

Answer 8

You just bought a new Cadillac. You went to the bar and drank a quart of Jack Daniels. You left the bar and drove into a crowd of children coming from an ice skating party and killed five of them.
Which company do you blame for their deaths; Jack Daniels or General Motors?

Answer 9

We have no idea whether those things are ultimately good or bad. If there is a God, then things that seem evil to us might actually be good.

Answer 10

Those are all results of the fallen world we live in.
They are also a chance to overcome, which is something man needs. Man is at his best when overcoming hardships, like the WW II generation was, a concept you probably don't understand as you stuff your face with Big Macs

Answer 11

I do believe that God also created adamsbanana..

bye ;p