If there is a GOD, how can he/it allow all these horrific atrocities to happen against children!!?

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071127/ap_on_re_us/child_s_remains_16

And just yesterday in my state of Michigan, I heard on the radio about a man who raped a TEN DAY OLD NEWBORN!

This is happening every minute, every second all over the F'ING world!

I ask you, how am I supposed to have faith and believe in an all-powerful, all knowing, PERFECT AND GOOD GOD when he SITS BACKS and allows this to happen!!!!

Please, I'm beginning to wonder if there is a God to begin with!!

Oh, so GOD doesn't have jurisidiction over the Earth? He can't do anything because he's in Heaven!?!? I thought he was all-powerful?

What? I'm not talking about what WE choose to do. I'm talking about the innocent children who have no choice. How does a loving God allow for a parent to kill their child. Did you not read the link?

Kylah_Where was God when these kids needed his help??? He sits back in Heaven and watches a kid get thrown across the room, hitting a tile floor?

Fatima-I am working on it currently. I won't save them all, but I will save as many as I can. What will YOU do?

Answer 1

There's a very deep reflexion on that subject in Dostoevsky's "the Brothers Karamazov". Where Ivan, the elder brother, goes on at lengths about his atheism and why he wouldn't want a Heaven to include people who would do atrocities to children and can't see how he could respect a God that would forgive them. (It's shortly after the Grand Inquisitor episode if memory serves me right.)
Dostoevsky was a very spiritual man but unlike many vocal religious people of today, he confronted these very real problems rather than ignoring them or brushing them aside. He later said that he wouldn't believe in God either if he limited himself to the way Ivan saw the world. That he had to look outside of that optic to find faith.

Answer 2

Why would the existence of God automatically change people for the better? Evil people will always exist and a belief in a higher power does not turn people into saints. This question is always asked...if God magically made everyone sweet and nice, then we'd all be Christians and earth would heaven.

Answer 3

Terrible things happen in this world because of our fallen nature and because this entered the world through one man's sin...Adam.

I hear many people asking questions like this such as...if God is Good, then why does he allow suffering?

Let me encourage you to think about something else. If God is perfect, Holy, and Just, then why in the world would he allow anyone to go to Heaven? That is really the question that should be asked. Why in the world would God have mercy on us?

Answer 4

Assuming there is a God - my appologies if i offend, but personaly i don't think there is - then there's still this whole freedom of choice thing.

let's hypothetically say there is a God. He has given each and every one of us the freedom to do exactly as we choose to do, for better or for worse.

To put it hyper-simply : by this freedom He's given us, He cannot intervene without breaking His own laws, thereby rendering every other moot. After all, would you choose to follow anyone or anything who says one thing, then does the other ?

Answer 5

This blame game doesn't work with God.

God gave us the abilities to create whatever society we desire and if through our efforts that society is corrupt, cruel, hateful-- How is that God's fault?

We've reject God every chance we get, we've thrown him our of the school system, and out of the courts.

So we're saying to him to his face we don't need you and Then We Have The Nerve To Say To Him Why Don't You Fix This Mess We Created??

Doesn't Make Sense.

Answer 6

It is not our place to figure out what GOD's plan is or why HE allows things like this to happen. Our place is to trust in Christ for Salvation and spread the good news of Salvation. Have you given your life to Christ? Do it soon before it is too late.
And the first guy is right, it is through satan that people are becoming more and more vile yet all you people find being vile to be funny, go figure.

Answer 7

I believe that the reason God allows things to happen to children is so people will care and it tends to bring the good out of people to come together. If things only happened to older people then depending on what happened some people would say they deserved it when others might just say well poor so and so but if something happens to a child no one would say that. I am not saying I believe it should happen but as I said when something happens to a child people come together and morn and show that they care.

Answer 8

What occurs here to children is horrible. They are innocent and yet they suffer at the will of men-not the will of God.
A women suffers pain in child birth so why do women continue to give birth? The joy that follows makes the pain irrelevant.
So it is with those children. They are welcome into heaven if they die as a result of what they suffered.
To assume there is no God and no afterlife makes their death even more tragic then the lack of God's direct intervention to spare them.

Answer 9

Much of all World's life has no sane and no fair choice from the point of view of many among us, and maybe we should start trying to imagine God in a different way than what so far is known, and so also try to explain and to justify Him in a different way.

Most of the good and or nasty bloody phenomena of this World are unexplainable or unjustifiable unto us,

and many among those who compete on giving brilliant explanations and admonitions to others and to the populace are ready to even resort to murderous ways in order to try to impose their version of holy reasons and of explanations.

Almighty God, being so immense, might not be really imaginable by us, in much the same way that our body, or the Universe (Multiverse) at large, might never result imaginable to a cell of nano-dimensions deep inside your own body.

Thus we might declare the same about those for us transcendental motives of God about the World, this vale of tears, that we so precariously are placed in: they too may be unimaginable to us.

Maybe after much hard work, and after many perhaps unconscious metamorphoses, and hopefully also apotheoses of joy, we might reach a better level of development were we might come to understand a little bit more about human life, human good, human perversions, ...

By now, and if we feel that we can do it, we might just more or less diligently, more or less fiercely, try to be good towards each other and so also to be merciful towards all other endangered life in our surroundings.

Good luck to you!

Answer 10

Yes sir, God does exist. The fact of the matter is he allows us to do as we please. We weren't made as robots to not have a mind and know right from wrong, we are created with a will to do what we know is right and to not. Don't get frustrated about it-know this God cares and He sees all, those who hurt little children and others will be punished.