or ww2? or 911? or any other given catastrophe?
2007-09-30 12:47:29 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He was busy turning a blind eye to Catholic priests raping altar boys. Ignoring the misery of your creations takes alot out of a deity.
2007-09-30 12:50:32 · answer #1 · answered by Adam G 6 · 9⤊ 10⤋
God is where He always is. Everywhere. I am always thankful for any "catastrophe" in my life. I learn from it and grow and become a better person, and my faith is strengthened. Some of the hardest times in my life have brought forth the best results because I have looked at what God was doing and saw some jewels of wisdom. Sometimes I couldn't see it while I was living the problem, but later I did. It would be different for each person. So say a natural disaster may show one person one thing, and another person will learn something totally different. So while I don't like living through it, I am always glad later that I did.
2007-09-30 12:55:47 · answer #2 · answered by Lenora2 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The Bible tells us that satan is now the god of this world, God has a plan of redemtion to get it back.
http://www.kingdom-gospel.com/faq.html
John 10: MKJV
10 The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
When the world was made it was perfect. God gave Adam authority over the earth, but Adam sinned and gave the authority to satan. God no longer can control the world, until all things are fulfilled when Jesus is given authority over the earth. If God tried to take control, He would break his own laws. For order to exist there must be laws. Example, without the law of gravity we would not be here. Is God therefore limited by gravity? No, he created it to bring order. Order without law would be an empty creation. And that was what was before God created. Therefore He made laws so His creation would exist in harmony...
...Just remember when bad things happen, it is from satan, not God. I don't care what minister or book says otherwise; the Bible says satan comes to steal, kill, & destroy. Jesus (God) brings life.
2007-09-30 13:03:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sorry, but you've missed a basic premise of all of the faiths "of the Book" (Christianity, Islam, and Judaism): God gets all the credit for anything good in your life, but none of the blame when anything bad happens. Even though being the omnipotent and omniscient deity means that obviously He had a hand in all of these.
Basically, because he's supposed to be the god of "good", he gets a pass on everything because his believers don't want to see that he would've had to at least had some responsibility.
2007-09-30 12:59:36 · answer #4 · answered by adphllps 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was the same place that He was when He watched sinful men slay his precious son Jesus on the cross at Calvary to pay for our sins so that we wouldn't have to go to Hell.
Here's what Jesus had to say about the type of things that you mention.
Luke 13:1 There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
2 And he answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? 3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."
Click on the Get Saved button @ http://web.express56.com/~bromar/ if you have yet to trust in Jesus for your salvation. God only knows when the next earthquake, terrorist attack, or even an automobile accident could take you away from this earth.
2007-09-30 12:57:01 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Good question. This is why I'm probably Agnostic, but I'm not atheist. I keep hope.
"iLoveHugs" is so sick and evil. That's a wonderful way to see things that everyone that was killed just deserved it because they were probably a bunch of atheists or sinners. But God made sure the Christians who don't skip church ever are saved. What about the innocent children that were supposedly being raped in that dome thing?
I guess children are sinners too and deserve to be killed.
2007-09-30 12:53:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
War?Hurricane? Earthquake? Car crash? Assault? Cancer? Old age? It’s only a matter of time until we all confront the loss of this fragile physical frame that has come to mean our very life.
Why are blaming God?
2007-09-30 14:14:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what's really sad is- some people actually believe that these things only happen to those who deserve it...much like the 'deserved hell' all the non-believers will suffer after death or the 'rapture'
it is also ridiculous to believe that" 'God' is on my side" in a war- everybody thinks that theirs is the side that God is on- all war is ego based in religion...fear of hell or belief of reward in heaven as the motivator
2007-09-30 14:41:35 · answer #8 · answered by zentrinity 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be able to understand happiness, we must first experience what happiness is like outside of the influence of our Creator while cloaked in the flesh of mortality. Therefore, the purpose of mortal life is for us to learn how to live with each other in peace, harmony, and happiness, while freely experiencing the effects of unhappiness caused by our personal relationships and environs in mortality. As we experience the opposite of happiness, we learn to fully understand misery, tribulation, wickedness (personal and otherwise), and the multitude of experiences that bring unhappiness.
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Humans have the instinctual ability to know what makes them happy and what does not. This knowledge allows them to make choices, the consequences for which they alone are responsible. With this ability to reason, which has been termed “common sense,” we are able to determine for ourselves those things that perpetuate happiness, and those that take away our happiness. In order to fully appreciate and completely understand the difference, no force, no unseen entity (God), and no advanced being from another galaxy, intervenes to curtail the use of their free agency.
As we experience the retribution for their actions, we learn to value the actions that bring happiness, and depreciate the actions that take away from their happiness. These constant experiences propel the human condition towards a universal acceptance of values and circumstances that perpetuate and sustain the end desire of human existence—happiness.
With each step taken backwards in experiencing retribution for our actions, humankind takes two steps forward. The steps backwards do slow the progress and process of arriving at a consistent state of balance and happiness, but nonetheless, these negative experiences also continue it forward.
The subsequent ramifications of this progression are the price that must be paid to satisfy the demands of the laws that guarantee happiness.
These ramifications are the penalties, punishments, woes, and consequences of opposing goodness and happiness. Though many humans believe that these consequences are part of the essence and penalties of a just God; a righteous Creator cannot violate the very purpose for which He exists—to provide happiness for His creations.
Therefore, it can be said that the “wrath of God” is nothing more than the NON-INTERVENTION of more advanced and intelligent Beings (who could help, but choose not to), which allows the actions of free-willed beings, who are learning by their own experience about the hell they are creating for themselves.
So, at the moment, neither God nor His servants will intervene in saving humankind from its own demise. And when God does not intervene in our mortal lives, we cause ourselves misery and create hell upon earth.
The opposite of being happy is being in hell. The key to happiness and the way out of hell, is in the way we treat each other. As we treat each other equally and as we would want to be treated, we eliminate hell, and prepare to live forever (the opposite of death) without causing any unhappiness to ourselves or to others—this is the “key” to overcoming “hell and death.”
2007-09-30 13:28:35 · answer #9 · answered by smallone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad things happen to good people. God can't stop things.
Just because bad things happen doesn't mean there is no God!
2007-09-30 12:54:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
When the Israelites needed to get across the bay real quick cause the Egyptian hordes were in hot persuit, God parted the waters of the bay.
As for Katrina, them was black folk -- wherever did it say God likes black folk? You show me in the Bible, no it says God like Hebrew folk, yes ma'am.
2007-09-30 12:53:57 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋