A lot of Christians say that God is good because he provides for us. But what about those who are dying?

Question

I hate when people say that God is so good beause he did _____ for me. What about other people who don't have those blessings? Does God hate them? My parents always say that I should thank God for his blessings because I have food to eat, because I have a place to live and so on. But if God really is so great and God can provide for us, why do so many suffer. Almost everyday I hear a terrible story in the news about an innocent child dying, being raped. In many countries people barely get by. I am thankful for all that I have. But if God is the provider for all of us, I think he's doing a pretty crappy job at it. If God is really is so great he is pretty lazy. World wealth is so unevenly distributed. What the hell is God doing. Please don't tell me about the sins of Adam and Eve. They 'sinned' a long long time ago and there is no reason why God should be punishing large number of innocent people for Adam and Eve's 'sins' while there is a small number of people living the life

When I asked this question, I meant to say 'dying of hunger and siffering' at the heading. i just didn't have enough room. asking why people are simply dying is a good question too. i have accepted dying as a fact of life. but many people haven't accpeted it and so make up a story about it usually revolving around God.

Answer 1

This was a nice piece of writing; at least IMO. You did take some criticism from other posters, but whenever calling out G-O-D in a negative fashion it is inevitable you will take heat!!!

It never seems to be a two-way street with God? If it is Good {God Did It} and if it is bad {It Is Humans Sinful Nature}?

I, too am thankful for food, a home, a car, family etc. but there is so much suffering in our world that just does not seem loving or acceptable whatsoever? Is it God or is it just Life?

Debaters may ask {like they did you} WHAT am I doing to fix problem? Not much really because financially I live paycheck to paycheck and could end up homeless and broke with 1 major setback.....

I said all that to say this ~~~~~~~ If God does all the good in the world you must also admit he allows the suffering AS WELL!

Answer 2

Well Saiila God hates no-one, in fact, he has provided every living thing with the ability to enjoy life to the full,he provides food enough to feed the whole world, God is not to blame for the way humans who are greedy distribute the food unfairly,and for the terrible crimes that humans commit almost every minute daily, also if you feel that you have nothing to be thankful to God for, check your pulse. Yes Adam and Eve did sin a very long time ago, and YES GOD does permit wickedness, and millions on earth willfully make a practice of it. For instance, they declare wars, drop bombs on children, scorch the earth, and cause famines. Millions smoke and get lung cancer, practice adultery and get sexually transmitted diseases, use alcohol to excess and get cirrhosis of the liver, and so on. Such people do not truly want all wickedness stopped. They only want the penalties for it eliminated. When they reap what they have sown, they cry out, “Why me?” And they blame God, as Proverbs 19:3 says: “A man’s own folly wrecks his life, and then he bears a grudge against the LORD.” (The New English Bible) And if God stopped their evildoing, they would protest their loss of freedom to do it!
Jehovah’s main reason for permitting evil is to answer Satan’s challenge. Satan the Devil said that God could not put men on earth who would be true to Him under test. (Job 1:6-12; 2:1-10) Jehovah allows Satan to remain to have opportunity to prove his challenge. (Exodus 9:16) Satan continues to bring woes now, to turn men against God, as he tries to prove his challenge. (Revelation 12:12) However, Job kept integrity. So did Jesus. True Christians do now.-Job 27:5; 31:6; Matthew 4:1-11; 1 Peter 1:6, 7.

Answer 3

Well your right in that God is a provider. God knows exactly what he is doing. He knows the sin and disgusting things that happen to men women and childen on a daily basis. Just think about all those people in those countries that are suffering, are they putting there trust in God? Or are they worshiping God or some graven image. An idol as in budda. Your right Adam and Eve sinned a long time ago. But that's what it is. This is a world of sin and in order for it to be put away people have to die.

Answer 4

You've hit the nail right on the head with your comments.
You've also already answered it.

But, I'll add my two cents with it.

What do you think about a person for all her life did her duty to support my family, raised me up, took care of my father while he was ill.

Now, she is 86 years old and has Dementia, going into Altzheimers Disease. Why is god, if there is a God, letting my mother suffer so much with this disease? She won't know anything within probably 6 months from now.

And, how can a God allow my mother to enter his kingdom with literally no brain left?

This and a lot of other reason is exactly why I don't believe in god or any religon.

Answer 5

Well if Christians say God is good because he provides for us, then they are absolutely wrong. God is good, period. Everything he does is good. He chooses not to do anything evil or bad. God loves all his creation, every person, no matter how evil belongs to God. He hates the evil they do but he loves each of us. He cannot show his love to everyone as he would like because he cannot stand the sin and evil that cover many people, but he loves them, nonetheless.

Answer 6

If by way of danger you're regarding the Third World, you will have to understand that God has furnished tons of meals, ample too feed all. But we are living in a corrupt global and the governments scouse borrow from their possess persons, rebels scouse borrow too feed their navy, and the effect is that the persons undergo. The difficulty does no longer lie with God; as a few like too think, however with with corrupt governments.

Answer 7

I have to give two different answers, because it seems to me that I'm seeing two different questions here.

(1) If God provides for us, why are some people starving, cold, and in want? God provides for US, not for me personally. That is, the abundance of God's world is sent for the use of us all. What comes into my hands is not meant for just me to use on myself. I am a steward, entrusted with sharing it out to everybody. The reason why some people are in want is because those of us who have a piece of what God sends tend to be unfaithful stewards, frittering away the abundance on ourselves. It's not God who is ungenerous, it's us. If we want to see an end to poverty, we need to open up our own hands. (As Gandhi said, "We must BE the change we want to see in the world.")

(2) If God is good, why do people die? Simply put, we human beings are not meant to go on forever in these present bodies. These bodies are running downhill from the time we are born into them. They are the tools we use to get us through this life. But we have another, better state of life we are meant to grow into. We leave these bodies behind in order to move on into the even-more-intensely-alive glorified state up ahead. It seems to be a natural human weakness to be afraid of the unknown, so we cling to this life, as the one familiar to us.

A subsidiary question here may be: Okay, so these bodies must die as part of our transition. But why must the transition be physically painful? Why can't we all just go quietly in our sleep, without death having to be so difficult? The best explanation I ever read was by C.S. Lewis, in an excellent book called "The Problem of Pain". It's much too complex for me to adequately compress into one little paragraph, but if that is the angle which is really bothering you, I recommend that book. (The explanation has to do with our sinfulness, and the repercussions of that sinfulness on our total nature, as creatures with both a body and a soul.)

Answer 8

Understand your point, although the wise also thank God for the bad that comes into their life as well. Because without going through difficult times, you would not become the person you are meant to be. God does have a plan, it might be that you help someone less fortunate than yourself because you KNOW and UNDERSTAND what it feels like to do without. You do have the power to make life better.

Answer 9

It is not God's intent for us to suffer and or die, but it was the choice man made a long time ago. I know you think God is being unfair to punish us all for the sins of one or two people, and if Adam and Eve were the only sinners, I might even agree with you. God sent Jesus into the world to give us that second chance when he saw that even with the bad things being allowed to happen, we still did not come back to him. God has given people opportunity after opportunity to live in obedience to him and to share in his blessings. Moses led God's chosen into the wilderness and for forty years, God provided them all with their food, water and clothing, yet many still refused to obey his laws. Cities were destroyed even though the people had been warned to repent of their sin because they refused to repent and turn away from immoral behaviors. It took Jesus dying and being raised from the dead to offer us the final opportunity to repent and to turn away from our sinfulness...yet how much of the world is still steeped in sin today? Even those of us who follow Christ are tempted every day....tempted to follow our own instincts instead of God's wishes. As long as mankind continues in this sinful attitude (and he will for as long as Satan is allowed to control this world), believing and following Jesus is the only way to salvation.

The blessings you speak of are all of a material nature...even life itself. Man is responsible for the suffering of others....and should be responsible for the preserving of others instead if he followed God's guidelines about being his brothers keeper. There is no reason why anyone should go without in this world of plenty. But allowing ourselves to give in to the selfish desires of our own flesh has kept us from doing for others. Can we truly call ourselves innocent? I think not.

If God searched the entire earth, He would not find one single individual that was free of sin....not even we believers. Jesus was the only perfect human being....and it is his blood that has washed our sins away in God's eyes.

Answer 10

Sounds like a calling to me! So ... what are you doing to help these people besides cursing GOD? Maybe GOD is offering you a great opportunity to help out. We are given life. What we do with it is our choice.