All the corruption, hate, bitterness and insanity in the world, did God make that too?

Question

For sure there are some beautiful things in life, I'm not so jaded to believe it's all bad. But for every smile and happy life story, there are at least equivalent sad ones. For every safe journey, there's a bomb going off somewhere, for every healthy baby, there's a dude in some alley about to pull the trigger. The world is a big, big place and murder, corruption, unfairness, and greed happen every day along with the rest. My question is, is God responsible for all this, too? Did God make it so one person is born with a disability, while another is blissfully unafflicted? Is he the one who allows one guy to inherit a million bucks, and another to struggle all his life for a decent meal? Or is it some one else? something else?
And even if so, why would God allow that? Unless he wanted it? And then, why the heck would he want it if it didn't have to be that way?
I'm just .. really curious to see what you have to say about this.

Answer 1

No, man made it. God gave us free will and that unfortunately is how we used it.

Answer 2

it fairly is an extremely complicated question and demands a considerate answer. i will do my ultimate to make it short. God did no longer create corruption, hate, bitterness... etc. God created "guy" and He created guy with a unfastened will to choose for good or evil. based on the biblical coaching of Adam & Eve, you may assume that the unique "guy and lady" choose for evil. yet in the previous you push aside this as cliché Sunday college stuff, enable's define evil as "selfishness" as against three dark demonic tension. this is do to guy's selfish nature that there is sooo plenty undesirable interior the international. So God did no longer create the undesirable stuff yet with the aid of fact of guy's decision evil exists interior the international. So why does God enable it? properly, i think, while you evaluate this is in assessment we are able to confirm God interior the coolest that guy is able to, interior the comparable way a white speck of lint of seen on a black sweater from an prolonged way off. God makes use of the corruption of guy's selfish nature to teach how plenty extra effective "love" is over hate. without the assessment it would be stressful to have fun with it. ultimately, the comparable person-friendly theory pertains to the "fortunate" vs. "unlucky" lower back, the bible says that rain falls on the righteous and the unrighteous alike, meaning on an identical time as there seems to be no rhyme or reason for some misfortune to ensue this is as a rule in those circumstances while God has the ability to teach the ability of love. God isn't in charge for the undesirable stuff interior the international yet he's in charge for you asking the question. with the aid of fact the element that is going alongside with a unfastened will is a want to seek for out solutions... and that's a great element. thank you for a great question.

Answer 3

If I were GOD, I would have regretted so much that I have given mankind the total freedom to do anything and everything he wants. :)

Whats happening right now is the work of an evil disguised in every hearts of some world leaders and all those people who are hungry for power, wealth, and fame.

How I wish I can play GOD even just for one day. I know exactly what to do with this wicked world.

I will let all bad people die and let all good people live. I've always wonder how it's like to live in peace and harmony. :)

Answer 4

Your argument leads to a possible conclusion that either God doesn't exist or if He does, He is not omnipotent and omnibenevolent as one believes Him to be. But alas, the believer can still have an answer.... that there must be a proper reason for all this mess.. it is just that we ignorant people can not understand the hidden (but benevolent all the same) purposes of God!!
No one has ever won an argument re. God either way, even though individuals do migrate from Belief to non-Belief and vice versa. I am learning to be neutral... isn't balance the ultimate peace and tranquility?

Answer 5

(Proverbs 6:16-19) There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.

(Psalms 7:11) God is a just judge and God is angry with the wicked everyday.

...and that's just a start. There are hundreds (thousands?) of references in the Bible to God being wrathful and destructive, even hating and cursing people before they were ever born. And we are made in God's image.

Fools who tell you that God is only love are the tools of Satan, trying to convince you that there are no repurcussions for the loathsomeness of evil. Make no mistake - if you cross God, He will destroy you.

Answer 6

No, that's not how things work.

God gave us all the big things like the Grand Canyon and Haliburton's profits.

Most of the bad things are Santa Clause's fault. He does one good deed a year, and just gets into mischief the rest of the time.

All the fluffy things are Peter Rabbit's doing, so thank him for all the pillows.

The really spine-chilling horrors are, obviously, Dick Cheney's idea.

Hope I've cleared a few things up for you.

Answer 7

Two answers come to mind when that question is posed. The first is that all of the negative forces in the world are not actually bad. What they are are opportunities to learn in disguise. Most learning experiences that register in peoples' minds are not bound to be completely rosy. If everything was perfect, there would be very little, if not completely nothing, to learn. The second answer is that all the negativity is merely the absence of positivity, just as cold is the absence of heat, dark is the absence of light, and so on.

Answer 8

The evil that we know and do is drawn from the well of Satan's pit. In there his followers (the other fallen angels) dwell and we are in the bottom of the pit. There is the reason for all our suffering. We listen to the evil more than we listen to God.
God however creates nothing but good. Anyone can blame Him for all our troubles and evil but they cannot put the blame on Him with any authority at all !! Not a whit of authority.

Answer 9

It's the standard answer of free will. God has created us to be His sons and daughters in a relationship of love. But we have to want that love more than we want our own independence from any authority over us. Our desire to be our own little god leads us to self deception which then leads to all the bad things.

If we accepted the command from God to love one another, wouldn't the world become a much more wonderful place? Yes, there would still be people born with disabilities but they would be loved and cared for.

God could take away our ability to hurt others but then we would become no different from robots and what then would be the point of our existence at all?

Answer 10

Hey!

Okay. Let's start at the beginning, shall we? Satan told Eve that if she ate the fruit from the forbidden tree, she would become 'like God'. So, in essence, Satan was saying that once she did this one little thing, she, and her children, would no longer need God to survive.

Well...

It just so happens that was a big, fat lie (no surprise there), but it still was a challenge against God's right to rule his own creation. And, if God had just destroyed Adam, Eve, and Satan just to start over from scratch, wouldn't the question have lingered in his other creations' minds? Wouldn't the other angels looking on have asked themselves 'DO we need God to survive?' So, God was just and fair when he allowed both humanity and Satan the Devil the chance to prove that they did not, in fact, need God to live happy lives.

So, the pain and suffering you speak of? It's just a byproduct of living in this world. Look at 1 John 5:19--"We know we originate with God but the whole world is lying in the [power of] the wicked one."

Satan is in control of the world we live in, because God allows it, FOR NOW. When God was in control of the world, humans lived in paradise, with nothing bad ever happening.

Does that make sense to you? It always has to me. God has to give us a chance to prove, irrevocably, that we do need him. Because of Adam and Eve, we are the example to show the universe that the Creator is the ONLY one who can show us the way to live happily.

Anyway, that's what I genuinely believe. What you believe is entirely up to you. I'm sure your reasoning makes you believe that there is no God, or, if there is, than he is an uncaring God. But he really isn't. He's only giving us the chance that we asked for. Or, at least, that Adam and Eve asked for. If you want someone to blame for what you see in the world, look to the source of all evil. Satan the Devil set all of this that you see into motion, and HE is the one that causes the things that happen all around you. Look at Job. God allowed him to suffer to prove that he truly loved God. BUT God did not cause his suffering, Satan did. God only allowed it to prove the point in the question Satan raised. If you'll recall, Satan said to God that Job only did as God instructed because God protected him from suffering and blessed him with so much. To allow Satan the chance to show if Job really did love God was only right and just. And, it just so happens, Job proved that he did, in fact, love God.

And so God blessed him even more than ever before.

I hope that makes sense. And I hope that really shows you something about God. And I genuinely hope the world around you feels a little less horrible.

Luv ya,
Tashi :)

Answer 11

Imagine if you had a son and you wanted to see if he really loved you. I'm sure that you would treat him well, but if you really wanted to know if he loved you, im sure that you would say 'no' to him once in a while to see if he will still respect you. Would you want your son to experience a life of perfection with no problems and nothing to learn from or would you want him to experience hardshiop so that he can grow?
God chose the second option. To give us tests of our faith in order to make us stronger. Therefore, yes, God did make corruption but for a larger purpose.