God the almighty, the creator of heavens and earth is unleashing devastating natural disasters and killing thousands of little children each year. What did this little kids do to the almighty God ? Were they not religious enough ? Did they have to die because they didn't praise God enough ? I would like to know the opinion of the religious people. Why is God killing little kids ?
I don't think that god exists. I think that natural disasters happen; bad things happen - I don't think there needs to be a god for that. However if there is a god, then yes, he/she sure does have a LOT to answer for.
Do not blame God for what have happened. He do not want to see dying people because of Him. Natural disaster does plus the man made disaster.
Lets pretend that God really exists and the disasters that are caused today are natural and men made and God gets sad every time that children are dying. Both the Bible and the Quran have the Noah story . People at that time were misbehaving and God spoke to Noah about building the Boat. Once Noah family and all the animals were in the boat the almighty God exterminated all children. Since God didn't equip children s brains to have the ability to understand good from bed why did he/she/it punished and killed all of them ?
I'd also argue that IF there is a god and that god is all powerful, he could prevent "natural disasters" from occurring. Also if he/she is all knowing, then surely god could have foreseen and prevented this.
I think you are looking at things incorrectly. When we were created, death didn't even exist. Spiritually or physically. It wasn't until sin / satan entered the world that these types of things happen. Look at the motives, The devil / satan is here to kill, steal, and destroy. According to Jeremiah 29:11, God's plan for us is not a plan to harm us, instead he has a good plan for us. It is our sin that has lead to death. The bible says that God is slow to anger and that he IS love. While he is also a just God, I don't deny that all will have to come before him on a day of judgement, but to blame every negative thing in our life on him would be a tragic way to think of him.
Ok, eric - let's say god being all powerful doesn't cause disasters or have any knowledge that they are going to happen. If this were the case god would not be all knowing and by definition would no longer be, in fact, a god. PHPGator - let us suppose god DOES exist and allows bad things to happen to infants. Let's say that is how it is. Does he let it happen because of original sin? Does he allow Satan to kill kiddies? Which of these is LESS fucked up? If god exists and is in fact all powerful he/she would not blame infants for the sins of adam and eve (I don't believe in this kind of fairy tale) - nor would god allow children to suffer through prolonged illness only to die anyways, without even having truly lived. If there is a god with the power to stop all, by definition a god, who then allows evils to befall the innocent - then screw god. Screw anyone who watches bad things happen to good people with a power to intervene and yet does NOTHING. That aint my god.
Remove the bias and realize man is no different than any other inhabitants of the Garden - every day there is death and sustenance. If not a God there still exists the ingredients (Garden) necessary for any life (man) to exist that should be learned than questioned as the events do occur - whether atheist or theist. If done so purposefully to man by God for an inadequate reason, the better thread might be how to prosecute the predator God who created us...loads of luck. For the true theist the reasons, rather than blind faith are attainable and meant to be found and lived to acquire remittance.
A really good question .... Right from childhood I was told that whatever good happens, its because of God and whatever bad happens its because of Satan. If i woke up late then it was Satan making me sleep more. laziness is attributed to Satan, Hardworking is attributed as a deed towards God. Reaps and good harvest comes from God, Locust and calamity comes from Satan. Birth would mean gift of God, Death would mean an act of Satan. Jealousy, bad intentions would mean Satans influence while generosity , humanity would mean act of God. Seriously whats wrong with this guy 'Satan' ? That is something which I always thought. God is great and Satan is bad.That is something which one always thinks. Now what if 1 person suddenly starts worshiping Satan, instead of God, that person gets a prophecy that Satan will ultimately cheat on him/her and kill him/her. Occult people possibly believe in this stuff, except for the later part. To be honest - All these years of reading and listening stuff about Satan and God as made me quite confused. I wish somebody just gives some Candy Floss to Mr. Satan and ask him to be as much happy and lovey as Dear God is Since we attribute everything bad to Satan - so here is my message to whoever that reads this posts with hatred to every other religion than their own - please tell Mr. Satan in you mind to take a day off ;-)
Children knows nothing about whats right and wrong so i guess God prepare something for them. Let's just say they're saved from committing sins
God is too busy to worry about everything, even though he could worry about everything. It's in God's plan as they say. Who are we to dispute God's plans, if there is a God.
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Because they are all sinners and no one believes in Him except Noah's family. But do you remember His promise?
If god genuinely did promise there wouldn't be another flood (yes, I've read the bible, but more than 8 years ago now - it didn't stick) then isn't that in itself a reason to question your faith? A god who lies is flawed and thus by definition not a god. Also, eric, you say that god is busy - if good is all powerful he cannot be too busy to do anything; and let's not even get into the whole "time is relative" debate.
Man is expelled - The only thing "busy" left will be to finish it off, as what may be occurring on its own - no need for encouragement. Noah would have become the last salvageable being of man and with his death the Almighty would have destroyed those remaining as the final judgments Prophecy (were evil to triumph). Instead the Creator by destroying the inhabitants before Noah's death gave man one last chance. The Promise is there will not be an intervention again. There must be the triumph of good over evil or man will perish.
Depends on the definition of flood. Are we talking about a Tsunamie, or the same size one that Noah was in?