As usually happens I was looking up something on the internet and came across something that took my attention. The title of the book, the title to this thread, caught my interest. As Christians sometimes we have pat answers, or sometimes we don't have an answer when someone asks a question. I try to be well read on these questions that may perhaps come my way. I thought it might be interesting to see how some of these questions would be answered here in the BDF. If it get's too far afield I will drag it back to topic. Think that you are answering a new Christian, or someone who knows nothing about the Bible. You're not giving your answer to me, let's pretend a little, how would you answer these questions to someone who never opened the Bible, been to church or knows Christ. Ready??
Question One - How Can a Good God Allow so Much Suffering?
And... go!
“And God said,
Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
Genesis 1:26 KJV
“The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's:
But
the earth hath he given to the children of men.”
Psalm 115:16 KJV
“And
GOD saw that
the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every
imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And
it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it
grieved him at his heart.
The earth also was corrupt before God, and
the earth was filled with violence. And
God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah,
The end of all flesh is come before me; for
the earth is filled with violence through them; and,
behold, I will destroy them with the earth.”
Genesis 6:5-7, 11-13
“
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
Therefore hath
the curse devoured the earth, and
they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth. ….for the
windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake. The earth is utterly
broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and
the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.”
Isaiah 24:4-6, 17-20 KJV
why does man blame God for death ?
“And the LORD
God commanded the man, saying, Of
every tree of the garden thou mayest
freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
Genesis 2:16-17 KJV
God told them how to live and not die they followed the lies which god said would be certain death
Or why do we blame God for the curse and desolation of Israel ?
“
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to
love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
I call
heaven and earth to record this day against you, that
I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
Deuteronomy 30:15-19 KJV
God warns man of evil and sin and death and cursings but we just keep ignoring him and corrupting the world more and more diseases wars violence those things came because god warned and said it ahead of time and people in authority did it anyways and introduced the curse into the earth like Adam for instance the first to do this he had dominion on earth and every human was in his body at this point
“Wherefore,
as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; ( thou shalt not lest ye surely die ) and
so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
Romans 5:12
My point is God What any and never claimed to be a puppet master we’ve always had the freedom to choose good or evil as humans but his warnings are true adam ate the fruit and died then adams first born son murdered his second born son after they consumed
the knowledge of good and evil which god said was certain death and Satan said it wouldn’t hurt then but help them
they followed Satans Will and died God is allowing time for people to repent and this world is filled with sin and death and destruction
because of us
When he ends it no one else can be saved he’s allowing the world to continue for this reason
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but
is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of
the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
( we believers have a promise afterwards )
Nevertheless
we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”
2 Peter 3:9-10, 13 KJV
wickedness cursing turmoils differing death ect is here by our hand refusing his warnings all along all deeds will be judged after while we are on earth man is free and has choice and dominion whether we give it to God in Christ or Satan in the world is up To us
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