Think about it.
If god is omnipotent then he could create a way for life to happen without everything needing to eat each other.
To make pain, and suffering, and fear, and death an integral part of everyday life is quite an odd way for a benevolent god to arrange things.
2007-09-26 03:15:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The theists will say that it's all part and parcel of "original sin" -- that cheetahs would have used their prodigious speed and dagger-like teeth for stalking pine cones or something....
2007-09-26 03:19:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I think this all boils down to our perspective on death and suffering. There is a natural balance to nature, and looking at it as benevolent or malevolent is just missing the point. In my nature I feel a repugnance towards killing something to eat. That is not how my cat feels when eating a mouse. Humans have killed off most of our predators, and that is not a good thing. Just think that when you go outside to get in your car to go to work, how much more alert to your surroundings you would be if you were looking out for a cougar. You would be awake. We go through this life on snooze.
You can solve your part of inflicting pain if you so choose, by not eating animals. Watch a cat eat a mouse and notice that there is no moral judgment on the part of the cat or the mouse, it is what it is.
2007-09-26 03:28:18 · answer #2 · answered by NRPeace 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religious will claim that sin caused these things. So Eve's hunger for apples caused the food chain.
What they forget, is that according to the bible God is the one who dictates the results of sin. God determines all action and reaction, so God was the one who determined that he wages to sin was death and therefore created the food chain, pain, suffering and death as a punishment for sin.
He didn't have to do that, he chose to.
That makes God cruel, not benevolent.
2007-09-26 03:21:53 · answer #3 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Biblically, god placed himself at the top of the food chain. Why do think he wanted animal sacrifices?
2007-09-26 03:19:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are effects of everything that happens. A lot of things cause bad a good things, even if we don't realize it. If we didn't have food, then where would be be?
2007-09-26 05:25:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to christians, lions were designed to eat carrots and broccoli - not other animals. Then they started sinning, so they had to kill for food. Hmm, yea, I'm sure they won't have any problem finding a scientist to corroborate that story.
2007-09-26 03:21:05 · answer #6 · answered by Nea 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
My goodness people, do you do any sort of research before you ask these types of questions?!
The food chain and carnivorious tendencies happened POST fall. You see it is simple, Adam and Eve had a perfect system to enjoy. They screwed it up. Now there is pain, suffering, and death.
2007-09-26 03:23:00 · answer #7 · answered by Me 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Now perhaps you understand why my belief in God doesn't include any effort to psychoanalyze the world we live in.
2007-09-26 03:22:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you suggesting that worms / mushrooms / miscellany in human bins exist for some other purpose than for my nourishment?
Are you suggesting it is a bad thing that I and my kind chow down on the above?
2007-09-26 03:21:02 · answer #9 · answered by Dire Badger 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Everyone is here for a reason. Some animal are here for food to feed others. God wanted sacrifices given to him. He provides us animals and other food to eat.
In revelation it says that animals will line up for us to have meat to eat. Why he created some animals, insects and people are beyond me, but we are all here to learn and grow. We all have a purpose. including animals
2007-09-26 03:22:17 · answer #10 · answered by Kristi P 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋