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What you are posing is a spiritual dilemma about why evil exists yet God is all seeing and all powerful. There may be no answer that will satisfy you, as I guess every human being at one point or another asks that same question when in mental or physical anguish. But it is possible to do so without accusing God of being evil. Solomon, who most people accept to have been the wisest man ever, warned, “God is in heaven, and you are on earth, therefore let your words be few.”
Its in the heavenly bibiyai,can’t contest that shït…
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Why defend the indefensible? I can also ask, if you could stop somebody from insulting you, could you? If your answer is yes, then why can’t God stop people from abusing his holy name?
To use your analogy, you can’t stop someone from insulting you, because it’s a matter of choice–the person chooses to insult you. My view is that we have choices to make, because God in His infinite wisdom has put something called a brain inside our skulls, which makes us rationalize reality, so that we have no excuse not to act differently from animals.
That said, the fact that we discovered that we exist without our own conscious will, is itself testimony to the fact that God (whichever name you call Him) wants us to exist. We therefore have a divine obligation to protect children from harm, because we ourselves have been protected by other people. God cannot come to do for man what man should do for himself! Expecting God to intervene in a clap of thunder and lightning to kill a rapist or a murderer before he commits the crime is expecting things to work by magic. God is not magic, he is reason, that’s where you and I come in. Believing in God doesn’t mean you should be superstitious and foolish. God works through people. So strive to do no harm to anyone, and stop anyone who is doing harm to others. To me, that’s God at work.
Every child that gets harmed is harmed because an adult has not protected them–yes, sometimes perpetrators of evil are children’s would-be protectors. God doesn’t need protection from anyone, He could crush people like insects if He willed it, (he sometimes does) but because we have a brain (God’s presence is reason!), He extends grace to us people so that we may use it, so it will eventually lead us to understand that despite all our “intelligence”, we are actually fools.
in the bible god killed upto 2 Million people satan killed 5.
Who is the villain here
God does not especially love children. Remember the last plague in Egypt! And in the 3rd commandment, God threatens to punish your babies, your babies’ babies even your great grandchildren, if you make yourself a sculpture, and worship it! God punishes innocent kids for sins they didn’t commit!!!
So, I can he does not love children very much, and I am ready to be persuaded otherwise!
I don’t know what to say to this, because I know if God wanted children to be less vulnerable they would have been made less helpless, and resilient, like the young of animals, yet He didn’t do it. Perhaps, knowing man’s pride, He wants to teach humans they aren’t gods, by showing us how fragile we really are, yet by the power of the intellect, we can subdue the natural world. But, let me just put down a few thoughts. Let me point out that God is above all human intelligence, so we may never have answers to some things. The way I see it is that since all life comes from God, and He can give and take it away at will, everything is part of His love–His way of doing things. So even death is part of that love–gathering the souls of the departed back to Himself. Another thought: perhaps the fear of death is only real for us because we cannot see beyond it, but to God there is no fear, because the dead don’t die to Him (they return to him), they only die to us who are living. I won’t pretend to know why, but I know the idea of God’s love is complicated, if we are to look at it in terms of not hurting people we love as a way of showing love. But if we see God’s love as above what we humans understand as love, maybe we can find a way of reconciling to the painful idea of children’s suffering or dying, when it’s through no fault of our own. I think we all know how terrible and saddening it is to see children die, since their lives seem wasted–they haven’t lived. It should hurt us terribly if we cause any death or fail to prevent it, because life isn’t ours, it’s God’s. And because it’s His, there is no loss, He takes back what He gave us for a short while. Think of all the people who have lived and died before we came around. Where are they?
Perhaps this is the foundation of the belief in eternity, for it gives us a way of explaining away loss and enables us to hope. Imagine how meaningless and empty life is when we believe the few troubled years we have are the only chance we have at life! The mystery of both birth and death could also be a way of waking us up so we don’t imagine we know it all.
I will tell you this, siri ya mambo haya yote ni kuwa, there is no God. God is an invention of the human mind. And everyone has his own idea of what or who they call God. That’s why there are so many inconsistencies as to who/what God is, what is the correct way to worship him, and many other inconsistencies. The Christian God is particularly one with such unconscionable attributes! Because he is generally a borrowed God. Mara thou shalt not kill, then the same God sends you to exterminate a whole tribe!
I like to avoid basing arguments on formal religion, chiefly because there are inconsistencies in all our understanding, but that’s no reason to say there is no God. I have a lot of respect for science, but the one reason I believe there is God is because science doesn’t answer the primary question of where we came from.
(Note that I say He, not because I think God is a man, but because of the limitations of the English language. I think it would be wrong to refer to a living entity as It, and dishonourable to use She). I see God as the eternal, supreme, life-giving Power that is behind everything we are, all that we see, and all that we know.
He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the LORD. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys. From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria. (2 Kings 2:23-25)
I wonder why God would let bears tear up kids for laughing at Elisha for being bald. I mean kids are just innocent and make fun of everything. God is so insensitive!
At least the first maybe 2, or 3, or even 6 would have been a good lesson well taught and well learnt. But all the 42 of them wooote? I wonder ilichukua mda gani for 2 bears kuwararuararua wote 42. Na mtu wa Mungu ama Mungu mwenyewe hakuguzwa na migurumo ya hao bears ama the terrorised cries of those children as they were being ferociously mauled to the last one!
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And, worse, wanaisimulia kama kwamba ni sifa sana!
adopt Deism and you’ll sleep better at night.
The basic beliefs of all Deist theologies is that God exists and created the world, but beyond that, God has no active engagement in the world except the creation of human reason, which enables us to find God by doing good.
Administrator mbona unapenda shaitani hivyo?
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your reply has atheist undertones to it yet you’re quoting a bible verse,rada?
God is the supreme egotistic villain. His wrath reigns.
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For the same reason He does not stop rapes and murders of children or stop people in Sodom and Gomorrah from homosexuality or the fallen angels from procreation with humans. To allow mankind free will.