every day in africa just becasue they can get a simple drink of water or are biten by a mosquito and are infected with malaria, even mother theresa questioned her belief and she tried to help those people
2007-12-20 04:17:40 · 15 answers · asked by mintman123 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I've had Christian friends tell me that they talk to God, he answers, involves himselves in their lives, makes their lives better. I've never been able to figure out how they rationalize a deity that they claim intercedes in the things in their own lives, yettt--doesn't see the need to interfere in the deaths of say 6 million jews, or as you say thousands in Africa. The only way I've been able to figure it is self delusion and nothing do nothing about the world.
2007-12-20 04:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes, it's beyond enough to rip out your heart. However, you're saying that if God exists and justice exists, either God will force all to be just, or all by nature will be just. Humans would have no choice in the matter any more than a cow has choice to eat grass or a whale to swim in the ocean.
From a moral perspective, there is no justice in nature. Why should rabbits have to be the victims of foxes? Antelope the victims of lions? Smaller creatures the victims of larger or more cunning creatures? Where's the justice in that? Let's reason that because there is no justice in nature, that there must be no God. Put justice in nature, however, and the natural world would fall apart.
Since there is no justice in nature, consider that for some reason, justice is a condition achievable only by humans for humans. Why would this be? Why should humanity have to distinguish itself from the other creatures by being just to continue its existence?
Either the human is merely a superiorly intelligent hairless ape incapable of establishing a just society, or there is something more profound to humans needing to use that fine brain to continue its existence (I'm thinking in terms of it's brilliant technologies capable of wiping out the entire planet).
That so many die while we dither about establishing justice is our wakeup call. When we understand what it means to be human and establish justice as an outcome of that understanding, no death resulting from injustice will have been in vain.
2007-12-20 04:24:53 · answer #2 · answered by jaicee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He doesn't DO it to them, he allows it to happen. He works under the principles and laws that govern the operation of the universe, and he doesn't break those laws. It is sad when these horrible things happen, but sometimes it's more a test for the people who see and do nothing than it is for the victims. Mother Teresa, bless her heart, was one of those sterling souls who used her "free will", but obeyed God and tried her best to serve the "least of these" on this earth. Her questioning was normal - and not to be condemned by anybody. The question that needs to be asked is, "what can I do to alleviate suffering, help the poor, and show more love to all my brothers and sisters?' Yes, good things happen to bad people, and bad things happen to good people, and we'll not know the answer until the very end.
2007-12-20 04:30:22 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly T 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The dying isn't even the worst of it, since we believe we live on after death; it's the all the suffering in people's lives.
I guess we just trust that eventually when the questions are answered, we will understand.
That doesn't change the fact that while living this life, I try to do the best I can for myself and everyone around me, as well as for those far away. It's all anyone can do, no matter what they believe.
2007-12-20 04:26:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Instead of questioning God why this happening why don't you do something about it. Man has created the devastation on this planet not God. If man cannot take care of what God has given us, why should we expect God to fix the problems that ignorant men have created. If mankind was not so greedy and worried about making themselves great and powerful the poor people of the world would be taken care of. It is not God's fault that people are dying in countries do to awful conditions. It is men that has created those conditions and now innocent people are paying the price for man's greed.
2007-12-20 04:26:48 · answer #5 · answered by Jessy 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why do some people not believe in a Devil when millions die (Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler, Mao) -- C S Lewis said it was the reality of evil that started his conversion.
Is there evil in the world ? Seems indisputable. Is that all that's in the world ? Seems not.
It took Augustine, Newman , Paul, and many many others years to work all this out. Don't be so simplistic.
2007-12-20 04:38:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't know if you've noticed, but everybody dies.
You will die.
Perhaps in a car accident.
Perhaps you will waste away from cancer.
Perhaps a heart attack.
God didn't want it to be that way, but when mankind turned its back on Him, the law of sin and corruption took effect. Death comes through sin.
But the Good News is that God has provided a solution, promising eternal life to those who put their trust in His Son sent from Heaven, the Lord Jesus Christ.
"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. 'For in him we live and move and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'We are his offspring.'
"Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man's design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead."
Acts 17:24-31
2007-12-20 04:34:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
It all boils down too...
Responsibility.
It is our humans responsibility to help them. Especially the rich countries and anyone who can.
But most people rather just point the finger at God and blame Him when it reality it is really our own fault.
2007-12-20 05:14:40 · answer #8 · answered by kickindevilbutt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the wages of sin is death.
God was serious when he said eat of that tree and you will die.
We all sin an deserve death. It's only by God's mercy that we live at all.
What would happen if those dying people sincerely cried out to the creator of the Universe for help and were willing to submit to Him? Seriously.... what would happen? Are there any historical examples of this? Could faith in God change a whole society? Save a whole nation from terrible deaths?
2007-12-20 04:29:43 · answer #9 · answered by Diane D. 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
The Jews waited 400 years to be freed from slavery in Egypt.
Yet, when God DID free them, it was in the most unbelievable manner.
Israel has survived as a state since 1948, DESPITE all the hostility they have faced.
Who are WE to question God, about the way He runs things?
2007-12-20 04:25:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋