You give your gods credit for all the "blessings" in your life, but none of the blame for misfortune and tragedy.
How do you rationalize this way of thinking?
2007-11-08 10:59:08 · 15 answers · asked by ►solo 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
sen b: Let me define it for you. Let's say someone breaks into a house and sexually assaults everyone inside and kills everyone but you, right after you've said your prayers. How do you justify when something like that happens to people?
2007-11-08 11:36:26 · update #1
Isaiah: see above and explain how devout followers apply to this example. Are all victims of misfortune reaping what has been sowed at some point in life?
2007-11-08 11:38:30 · update #2
You can't.
2007-11-08 11:02:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
That depends how you interpret misfortune and tragedy. Who lives a life without the two? No one. Everyone suffers loss etc that is part of life. Everything in life brings you something even the bad and tragic. And i thank God for all in my life the good and the bad and i have had my fair share of tragedy.
2007-11-08 19:05:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Regarding blssings:
Jam 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Regarding misfortune:
Gal 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Everything is everything with the Lord
2007-11-08 19:05:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is sovereign. Nothing happens outside his will. Tragedy and troubles do not happen with God allowing it to happen or causing it to happen to fulfill his propose. We can not definitively say why God allows somethings to happen. But the bible says, "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. Isaiah 55:8
This is a great misconception that the Christian life is a bed of roses. This point of view is not scriptural.
So your premise is poor because those who hold that point of view do not have a correct understanding of what God's nature is.
I suggest you read the Bible daily if you want to understand things like this.
"What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses,
"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy."
2007-11-08 19:15:40 · answer #4 · answered by Praise to the Trinity 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have only one God so I don't give credit to any God but one for anything.
God is God I don't blame Him for things that happen in nature, but I do question some of the things that happen.
I suggest u ask God this question.
My God does not expect me to be a robot and just except things I don't understand.
2007-11-08 19:09:17 · answer #5 · answered by Sissy C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The blame sin and the devil even though both of those are created by God as well. The creator of all must have created sin as well.
2007-11-08 19:44:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God gives you all the help you need for good things. Bad things happen of our own accordance. He does nothing but watch and see if you turn yourself around to stop from doing a bad deed. If a loved one of yours dies or gets seriously injured, then it was fate. Nothing can stop that.
2007-11-08 19:13:25 · answer #7 · answered by I Pity You Fool!™ 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Connecting with the universal spirit, that hold the universe together as one, can only create more harmony in life, while, disconecting can only do the opposite.
2007-11-08 19:09:08 · answer #8 · answered by astrogoodwin 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A winning football coach credits god for his victory. I'd love to see the losing coach curse God for his loss.
2007-11-08 19:04:02 · answer #9 · answered by Dendronbat Crocoduck 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In Job, we are reminded that God gives and He takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord.
God is in control...all the time!
2007-11-08 19:03:26 · answer #10 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Why blame him for misfortune and tragedy? Satan causes that.
2007-11-08 19:03:23 · answer #11 · answered by Kitty K 1 · 3⤊ 4⤋