to help. Can anyone enlighten me about this and other suffering innocent children?
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2007-10-24 12:01:22 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why does he not come and reassure children like this?
2007-10-24 12:02:46 · update #1
Many possibilities.
How many parents intentionally refuse to expose their children to the Hope of the Gospel?
I'm not saying that is the case here, but a very small percentage of Brits have any kind of a living faith in God. Do you suppose the bullies at school were that way because they were instructed and trained in the ways of God, or because they were behaving according to the animal nature in them the Gospel seeks to restrain?
I think before I would go about bringing any indictments against God I would want to have all of the facts.
You may want to hold God responsible - but He says He will hold every individual responsible, especially with respect to their treatment of children:
"Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe to stumble, it would be better for him if, with a heavy millstone hung around his neck, he had been cast into the sea."
Mark 9:42
2007-10-24 12:19:08 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Everything in life happens for a reason. It not only strengthens us and those around us, but helps us learn to help others as well. We tend to let our emotions get in the way of our rationality and lose the whole plot. Ask what we have to learn from our experiences and just maybe if we learn to understand and we can find some peace.
This is coming from someone who has had a lot of diversity in life!
2007-10-25 00:20:45 · answer #2 · answered by djdundalk 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do bad things happen to good people?
It's not a question that can be answered religiously. Religion is a delusional societal construct for the hopeful, not the hopeless. When someone is beyond hope, we can only watch on in despair as they slowly die, leaving those untouched to question, "How could a loving god do this to my child?"
The disillusionment that follows is simply a product of belief placed into a god that's incorrectly been perceived as human. If there is a god, he isn't human, and nothing speaks more to this fact than a child's slow suffering.
2007-10-24 19:12:09 · answer #3 · answered by damlovash 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
This is why all religions are obnoxious. You cannot rule people by fear. She probably killed herself because she was indoctrinated with self-hating religious dogma. Or of course she may have been hideously abused and could see no other way out. Either way there was no-one for her when she needed them, and I am not talking about some ridiculous ethereal entity, perhaps a loving parent would have been nice?
2007-10-24 19:15:25 · answer #4 · answered by Lozzie p 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
thats not his MO
Daddy told him to come to earth, walk around a bit, preach and get strung up. Daddy didn't tell him to solve the problems ofchildren born after 33Ad (or whenever it was that His Holiness the Christ died). In fact Jesus speaking in a parable states specifically that his purpose was one tracked and didn't include any but the chosen! ... so if you are not part of the chosen (IE a Jew) then Jesus didn't come for your sake, much less a child born 2 millenia after him.
2007-10-24 19:04:09 · answer #5 · answered by David F 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
God the Father loves to laugh about it... so bear with him...
Job 9:23 (NIV) When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent.
Relax...
In Christianity an 8 year old kid is still innocent... So God caught her to Heaven on the spot!
2007-10-24 19:09:51 · answer #6 · answered by Opus 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm sorry, but if you expect direct intervention from Jesus, or God for that matter, you are going to be disappointed a lot more often than not.
2007-10-24 19:05:09 · answer #7 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is no "God" ( and that is MY opinion and belief after over 25 years of Catholicism). God is supposedly our "Father". Well, I am a parent and I can tell you that if I had the power to stop the suffering of my child I would! I can't fathom her suffering or imagine her parents' pain. Compassion could change the world.
2007-10-24 19:11:42 · answer #8 · answered by alessa_sunderland 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Why not?
When he's following her everywhere she goes.
Did we give her the five senses for communicating with him?
Like how to read,write,speak,communicate and think?
Luke 9.41
What do you think?
2007-10-25 00:10:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How do you know he didnt come to her? Where were this childs parents? She is in heaven tho with Jesus
2007-10-24 19:05:26 · answer #10 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋