Assuming God exists, is He responsible for all the bad that happens on Earth?

Question

Like earthquakes, tornados, car wrecks, plane crashes, terminal diseases, terrorist attacks, famines, plagues, etc.

Answer 1

Nope.

When Adam & Eve at the apple, Satan gained control over this world, and all of the subsequent sin, evil and suffering that mankind has endured since that time.

This earth will not again be under God's control until the second coming of Christ. Until then, we have the free will and choice of whether to be OF this world and serve the purposes of Satan, or merely be IN this world, just passing through, and OF Jesus.

Answer 2

First off, the answer is not as simple as a yes or no. There are always various levels of abstractions in causal relationships.

Here's a simple way to look at it. Imagine you're driving a Chevrolet. It's a freeway you're on (at a high speed), with only few other cars and only plain land on either side. You've kept one hand on the steering wheel and the other you're using to hold your cigarette. Suddenly, you crash into a camel. You're badly injured.

Now, what/who is responsible? Some personal development gurus will say you were 100% responsible for what happened. However, from an analytical point of view, that's not entirely correct. Maybe GM doesn't know how to make a good steering wheel and so you lost control. Maybe your brand of cigarettes is just too intoxicating. Maybe these camels are just crazy to try to cross a road like that. Maybe it's these narrow roads that don't have enough lanes to switch to in times of emergency.

All of these factors, in varying proportions, add up to the whole event. Of course, your psychological framework is a major factor, because another person in your place (under similar economic and social conditions such as yours) wouldn't have crashed.

At the highest level, God was responsible for the accident. On a lower level, you were responsible for the accident. On a still lower level, your car was responsible for the accident (how could you have attained that high velocity anyway?). On a perhaps equivalent level, the camel was responsible for the accident.

Another analogy is when a person programs a robot to kill a person. If the question is which *robot* was responsible, then it's obvious that your robot is responsible for the act. However, if the question is which *person* was responsible for this act, it's obvious that it's you. The robot was at a lower level of causality than you. At the highest level, God was responsible for the act, because it is He who is the basis of everything.

God is, at the highest level, responsible for everything that ever happens.

Answer 3

for God to stop evil and suffering he has to stop.

evil actions and deeds.
evil speech
evil thoughts.

thus one of the reasons why God allows the world to just go crazy,,, for now...
he is giving us more time to repent before he allows us to enter his kingdom, where there will be no disasters nor tragedies nor death nor sickness.

so he does have an eternal solution to our problems.
but if he just fixes it right now without us having a change of heart.
we will have the world back in the same condition in less than six months.
we would pollute and fight and destroy and chop down trees etc..


remembering that the story goes that it used to be paradise.
then man sinned and God flooded it,.
the flood changed the world and thus it is already broken.
thats for natural disasters.
most of it is caused by us.

we whine and complain about famine while we waste 300 bucks on a forking IPOD while that same 300 bucks could have fed a family of 10 for ONE YEAR in africa.

well.. put your money where your mouth is.
if you are such a benevolent person, stop wasting your money on the stuff that you do.

give yourself enough for food shelter clothing, utilities and stop buying new toys cars houses and gadgets.
stop wasting money on fancy dinners and eat your bare necessities.

put your money where your mouth is.

if you cant do that, at least start by dedicating 10% of every paycheck you get and donate it to charity.
EVERY PAYCHECK.

if you can't do that, you definitely shouldn't say anything about God and these things.
if you are doing nothing about it, you have no right to whine about it..

in fact, all these famines, how do you know you were given the responsibility to fix it in your area?
how do you know that God is not going to judge you for the income that you get that you shouldave donated to relief efforts.
rather you spent it on something else..


natural disasters didnt exist though...
not until the fall of man and more drastically the flood..
changed the earth and the food and the oxygen and the pressure and pretty much everything.

so you can't really complain to the manufacturer for a product not working right if..
you dont accept the terms of service.
you don't follow the users manual.

and all that stuff.

Grace and Peace.

God Bless.

Answer 4

Tornados, earth quakes, terrorists can not wipe out the real us which we will remain ever and ever. So where is the question of blaming God for something which can never happen?

God is concerned with the real 'us'. These events are incidents in the scheme of infinity. God knows that, we don't, that is the difference.

Answer 5

yet another definition of pious is a Godly act. to respond to your question, convinced they're pious because they're seen by technique of others as selfless acts, in a twin of Jehovah God.(Or Christ) enable me ask you a question? How commonly do you spot humanist doing pious acts of kindness which aren't to any extent further self dependent? everyone will be style for a second yet pious acts are ones that call for self sacrifice over a era of time. Being pious is an characteristic of our nature. this variety of habit comes from a particular heart that needs to placed others first. you discover this frame of mind maximum in Christian communities.

Answer 6

Assuming God indeed exists, then sure, go ahead and let Him be responsible for everything bad that happens ... but if you do so, then you must also give Him glory for all that He's done right.

Answer 7

No he is not responsible for it. We are responsible for it because of sin and sin leads to death. Its not the result. Therefore things like this happen because of people in the world and the evil that exist here along with sin.

Answer 8

All that natural stuff that happens is just the earth doin her thing, Gods mellow, just go with the flow

Answer 9

every action has an equal and oposite reaction. simple law of the universe. basically you screw with nature and it screws back just as hard. if god kept intervening and vanishing such problems away, with we ever learn anything? how can you grow without learning? and solving the problems you created?

Answer 10

IMO if an all encompassing all knowing creator God made the universe everything in it must be according to his design.