I mean, why do non-believers and sinners get better lives than us Christians, especially when it seems they get rewarded for sinning? I'm 16 and I see this a lot, and I don't understand it.
2007-10-04 08:25:08 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No matter what you believe, we all tend to plod on through life trying to do the best we can. In that, we're equal.
As far as morality, non-believers tend to have better morals. Christians, and other theists, tend to follow lists of rules created in primitive society. They don't really apply much to today.
It's better to actually think about why something might be right or wrong, instead of just blindly labeling it according to old lists. This makes atheists stand out from the crowd. We tend to like to think, and that helps us on other areas of life. When you stop looking at the world in black and white, you see much more of the good and bad in everything. You find out that what some call a sin is really a virtue, and vice versa.
2007-10-04 08:27:26 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Because the devil has them right where he wants them and keeps them there by giving them all the things that keep them in his world.
Remember that the Bible tells us we will be tried and tempted all the time (Acts 5:41) but if we have the right attitude (Heb 12:2), we will be able to overcome those tempations, unlike non-believers who follow their own path. We have more temptations, or so it may seem at times, because the devil wants to pull us back to his side. He doesn't have to work on the non-believer because he already has them.
Remember the story of Job and how his wife and others tried to get him to turn his back on God....... and how he refused every single time. That is what God wants in us.
And good guys don't finish last. Come Judgment Day, they will be rewarded for their faithfulness :) :) :)
God bless
2007-10-04 08:35:05 · answer #2 · answered by KittyKat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my experience I've seen that people tend to gravitate towards a lot of the bad types of people, maybe it's that they seem taboo or something, there's some danger there that one may get burned, and it is hard to see people like that appearing to be 'rewarded' for what they do. The Karma wheel does turn, we just are never around to see it. One thing that can help is to keep in your mind that the ultimate judgment is God's and not ours. And the man upstairs doesn't work on our time line.
2007-10-04 08:32:27 · answer #3 · answered by hickry h 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good guys of any stripe (Christian, Buddhist, Pastafarian, Atheist, Philosophical Platonic scholar, whatever) tend to finish last.....period.
And there's a slip up in your logic. Not all Christian are Good People. Not all Atheists are Bad. [That's all other discussion for another time.]
But, in general whomever has the gumption to go after what they want while stomping on everyone else usually tends to get what they want.
...for better or worse.
2007-10-04 08:34:02 · answer #4 · answered by D.Chen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...I don't even know where to begin.
I hate to say it, but when I was in school, the believers were the ones out there sinning the most.
And I hate to break it to you, but you don't have to be a Christian to be a good person and have a good life. Maybe you should look at what you're doing in your life to diagnose why you aren't satisfied. Rather than complaining about them.
2007-10-04 08:29:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
i hope i can give you what you are looking for... the sinners don't always have the best life it might seem like that to us but they don't. they have so many other things inlife they are running from. and one day when God judges them they will be held accountable for what they had done. if you think about it we have it pretty good we know where we are going and we believe in in the almighty God.
2007-10-04 08:30:09 · answer #6 · answered by cullenlvr16 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"better lives"? By this, do you mean you are jealous of those who are able to sin freely?
The gospel teaches us how to have joy in this life and exaltation in the life to come. Don't be deceived by temporary pleasures that sin offers and confuse that with having a "better life". It just ain't so. :-)
2007-10-04 08:30:45 · answer #7 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's simply not true that good people all have rotten lives.
It's also not true that non-believers are bad people.
It may often be true that bad people become rich or powerful, but that's just how life is. Doesn't mean they're happy.
2007-10-04 08:33:37 · answer #8 · answered by tehabwa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What reward are you holding as the greatest reward? Think hard about what you feel you could get as the greatest reward; if your thinking power, money, and fame, think harder...
2007-10-04 08:33:35 · answer #9 · answered by Un-Republican, Un-Democrat 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I know a lot of gay Atheists who are extremely nice and good and they finish last when it comes to marriage and equality.I also know that in politics, Atheists usually finish last because American politics are often governed with Christian influence.
2007-10-04 08:30:26 · answer #10 · answered by Demopublican 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋