http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6nkLANrVlM
2007-12-01 16:07:45 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-12-05 16:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by . 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thus illustrates one of the classic theological contradictions of Christianity. If God is benevolent, omniscient and omnipotent how is there evil in the world? It leaves you with two possibilities.
1. All evil in this world leads to some greater good as part of our benevolent creator's great plan. Ah, such a nice cop-out. Have faith that when a rain storm and car crash claim your wife and child that it leads to greater good. Yes. that must be it.
2. God is not one or more of those characteristics; not benevolent but sadistic (since he knows suffering will happen and has the power to stop it), not omniscient (just a good guy with supreme powers who doesn't notice our suffering), not omnipotent (well, if he isn't all powerful then why worry about his feelings?)
The response: You just need to have faith.
Translation: Ignore your faculties of reason and present evidence in favor of hope in an empty promise, from an unverified source, in the way children hope Santa will deliver all the gifts they desire.
2007-12-02 03:49:19 · answer #2 · answered by cerambus07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's sad. I am a Christian and I can say that I don't really know why things like this happen. The only thing I can say and it seems childish I know, but for lack of a better reason sometimes bad things happen so that good may come out of them. I don't think God did this, but He had to have allowed it, and I can only say that He is there trying to help those in pain. Even in the darkness He is there with His love.
2007-12-02 00:16:23 · answer #3 · answered by Zach 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't realize that God built the Chernobyl nuclear plant...or that he invented or tested nuclear weapons (or whatever else exposed these people to the radiation that caused their conditions). Looks to me like yet another example of man's inability to make wise decisions about the best use of the resources God gave us.
If anything, pictures like these should make you (and I) feel pretty small when we complain and whine about our trivial problems...and perhaps even inspire some guilt that our demand for electricity to power our computers, televisions, refrigerators, and all sorts of other things that aren't really necessary for life has led to the development of technology that could cause the same thing to happen to others all over the world!
I almost feel like I should shut off the lights and my computer and apologize to God for caring more about my comfort than I do about the lives of these people! G'night everyone! *smile*
2007-12-02 00:43:35 · answer #4 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! This is the work of unloving humans!!!! Chernpbyl is not God's work, put the blame where it should be, with men.
2007-12-02 02:13:35 · answer #5 · answered by I speak Truth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It's the result of sin in the world.
2007-12-02 00:13:11 · answer #6 · answered by timewarp_06 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you play simulation games?
2007-12-02 00:18:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They'll blame it on satan. They've got a tale for everything.
2007-12-02 00:12:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋