Does God not care and unfeeling?
By nakula2009
@nakula2009 (2325)
Indonesia
February 25, 2011 3:20am CST
Many people think the answer is yes. They think, 'If God cared, the world would not be like this. "Everywhere we see war, hatred, and misery. Besides, we ourselves may fall ill, suffering, grieving for a loved one dies. Therefore, many people say, 'If God's attention to ourselves and our problems, would not He would prevent these things? "
Even worse, the religious teachers sometimes make people think that God is not callous. How is this possible? If there is a disaster, they say that it is the will of God. Actually, the teachers were to blame God for bad things that happen. What is God really like that?
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11 responses
@lilaclady (28207)
• Australia
25 Feb 11
What is happening to man is mans fault, we have taken from the earth and have put nothing back plus people have choices and the bad things that are happening to do with people is the peoples fault, they make the wrong choices...
@nakula2009 (2325)
• Indonesia
26 Feb 11
Life is a choice, and I always say that, although not a few people who reject my thinking was.
@luram626 (30)
• Philippines
26 Feb 11
It's really hard to understand what is happening in the world today, sometimes we tend to blame God for the calamities happening to us, but if we are to examine why did that happened its just "science" the law of cause and effect. the world is bound by laws in which we cannot escape, if we are going to break one or more of these laws consequences will follow. so in short it is just a matter of Choice. God has given us this gift the freedom to choose, for us to choose wisely, to choose righteously and if we choose to break the law as i said consequences will follow. we suffer, we grieved, we experience these things because of the choices of others. I believe that God have allowed this things to happen for us to experience, and through experience we will be able to learn and then give us the opportunity to correct ourselves and also through experience we grow in all aspects of our lives. I know God lives, I know we are His sons and daughters, I know He has a plan for us, He did not just put us here without purpose, I know He loved each and everyone of us.
I believe thats what the God I know.
@kheydia (882)
• Philippines
26 Feb 11
yeah i agree with you, God loves us and cares for us, sometimes because of our light mindedness or because of our carnal state, we dont understand the things happening to our world right now, and why we have to suffer and why we have to feel pain, but as we come to know God better and His gospel we will understand everything that are happening around us.
@jonnifc (1017)
• Philippines
26 Feb 11
Don't you think bad things that happen in our lives will not make us better people? Sure some are tragic, sad or even makes us angry. But things happen for a reason. We don't know that reason just yet. In time it will be revealed to us. But in the meantime, I believe that "all things work together for good". How we react to these situations are depending on us. On who we are and what we are made of.
And some bad things that happen to us are consequences of our actions. What we sow is what we reap. Karma. What goes around comes around. So if we find ourselves in the middle of these "consequences", let's just face it head on. And not go around blaming God for it.
@dayangsumbi2010 (1724)
• Indonesia
26 Feb 11
God is our master the most good. He is best know what is best for us. Through the sacrifices and trials in life, he always wanted to warn us so that we can rely on him, the master of everything. We were told to rely on him so that we can through the problem so well and bruised. That's evidence that he dear to us. We are not left to suffer alone. We fought together with him. If you feel that the experiment that you experienced is not resolved smoothly, try to learn, what is the wisdom behind it all. Through all of this life's journey, God wants us more mature, better understand what life and interpret it properly. And remember one thing that the problems we face do not exceed our strength. That is proof that God is so unfair to you. Forgive me if my words hard to understand. I also experienced similar questions arise. We hope to strengthen.
@najibdina29 (1309)
• Indonesia
13 Mar 11
we can not change the condition of a people that do not change ourselves, what we are doing what we can, all things happen for no reason, and stories about the resurrection and the destruction of a country / people in the Qur'an, all of that is because result ..
@kheydia (882)
• Philippines
26 Feb 11
People who know God better will not say those things or blame him for what is happening in the world, We are here on earth to be tested, we will be tested of our faith and how we are going to react with the calamities we are facing now, and also God knows us better than we know ourselves He knows as well that we are having a difficult time, i know that in everything there is a purpose, and i know that there is a purpose why all these things happened.
@FRANCISCOANDLEE (750)
• United States
25 Feb 11
To answer these questions and address your concerns..that would take more time and a lot more words than just a few sentences, but I'll try my best..
Things are the way they are in this world, not because of God, but because of God's enemy, Satan. No one, EVER, EVER, puts blame on him, always God. If you believe in God, then you have to believe in God's enemy...because God and Jesus have both mentioned him and admitted that he is the enemy. Some say God created Satan...no, He did not, Lucifer created Satan...God created Lucifer. Lucifer became Satan, Satan means "the enemy". Lucifer tried to over-throw God, but failed. God threw Lucifer out of Heaven and cast him down to earth, where Satan is today. Before Man, there were Angels..Lucifer sinned against God, and was able to convince a third of God's angels to follow him and attack God, those angels are now known as Demons.
As a direct result of these actions against God, and the sinning of angels, God created Man, in God's image. Angels and Man was given the great gift of Free-Will. Angels CHOSE to sin. Now, Satan was able to convince at least a third of God's angels to turn against Him, how the more easier would it be for Satan to turn Man against God? Satan hates God, we are made in God's image..you don't think Satan hates Man? Satan wants to destroy Man, thereby destroying God. Not literally, but by hurting who God loves. Man does that to man now!There are even movies made about that...to get at that cop, they kill the cops daughter...Liam Neeson made a movie just like that. So did Mel Gibson.
Sure, God could destroy Satan now but that would leave doubt in the minds of Angels and Man, so God knows that He HAS to let Satan show the Angels and Man that Satan is wrong...sort of like God is allowing Satan to shoot himself in the foot. When God determines the time is right, Jesus will come back to earth and literally lock Satan in the Abyss for a thousand years, because then it will be time to show Man that Satan is wrong. Man will literally live with Jesus on earth..you, me..all of us. While Jesus is here, there will be no more tears, no more pain, no more disasters, disease...all of the things that happened because of sin and Satan. Then Satan will be set free once again, and Man will be able to see what life will be like with Satan, and what life will be like living with Jesus...Man will STILL have a choice! Free-will.
God wants us to love Him by Free-will...to love freely. He won't force us to love Him, and that is why this all has to play out. To force someone to love you is not love, that is forced affection, and pretty much holding someone against their will! Men have done that to women! And what happens? The woman will run and escape from that man the first chance she gets! But if that woman loved that man by free-will...she will never leave him. That is all God wants from us, is that so bad? By letting all of the bad happen, Man SEES a world without God...God will come back to us, and then Man can SEE what the world will be like WITH Him!
Jesus has said, many times, that Man will be rewarded for their loyalty...God will forever more wipe away our tears, take away our pains...take away our feelings of doubt, loneliness, the feeling of not being worthy...just as a parent HATES to see their child cry, feel pain, feel hopeless, etc...God HATES to see us suffer the same...BUT, He has to let this all play out because of free-will. But He will make amends to Man, He promised. No more disasters, no more wars..."the child shall play with the Lion and the Lion shall lie with the Sheep".
Jesus said, "My kingdom is NOT of this world, this world belongs to Satan...but I WILL return and my kingdom with me!" Stop blaming God, instead, ask God for help in dealing with Satan....if someone BLAMED YOU all of the time...how would YOU feel? I know I don't like it.
In the movie, The Day After Tomorrow, that college boy and his friends, and everyone else were facing unimaginable odds of survival, but that boy believed his dad would come and rescue them, despite others telling him that NO one is coming for them...asked those non believers to not leave. begged them, but they left anyway...they perished in those conditions, and the boy and those who believed him were saved. Ironic.
@lady1993 (27224)
• Philippines
25 Feb 11
I don't think so...As i grew up I realized that God didn't have anything to d with the wars that is happening all over the world and the problems we face each day- it is all man's ding. We create problems for ourselves by being selfish sometimes and not always doing what is right, and destroying the environment. So, we should be responsible and do what is right and protect the environment. BEsides, these problems make people stronger and united.
@nj_1022 (251)
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25 Feb 11
GOd is good. Things happen for differnt reasons. Like, we will not be ill or sick if we keep our bodies healthy, eating healthy food and having exercise. We will not have so much flood if people did not cut trees to build houses and factories. If God gave us blessing by answering our prayers, we tend to forget Him. All of this what is happening to the world are result of our greed to get more things that we forgot that there is a bigger God than us. That we are not the ones who decide for the matter. That God created life and He has the right to take it away. God wants us to live life simply and holy.
@elainaire888 (2)
• United States
25 Feb 11
God does care... it is just that God gave us freedom and most of us took advantage of that freedom and somewhere along the way people got lost. We are so busy working and building fortunes that we tend to forget to appreciate the light things in life. We have forgotten to say thank you for those little things he has done for us. We are so wrap up with our lives....But I also see other people who are starting to change their own lives by being positive. When you start to have a positive outlook in life you will see all the good things God has done for us.
@khai21 (5)
• Philippines
26 Feb 11
Be responsible and trust GOD..this is the only thing that we could do..let us Pray and trust GOD. what happening right now is a reality. we could not stop it, but we could lessen the misery that we are currently in. we have to plant trees, stop burning plastic materials, dont cut tress..these will destroy the earth. lets not blame GOD because in the first place, we are the responsible in destroying our planet. Maybe this is the will of God, but this is for us to open our mind into reality that we are the one who are responsible in destroying the earth that GOD has made. GOD wants us to revive the earth, not to destroy it!!!