Why does God allow bad things to happen?

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You know I just realized that probably sounds like a bible story movie or something.

It is actually a very bizarre story about some vietnam veterans.
Came out in the early 90's, very dreamlike and confusing, but deep stuff.
They have it it just about any video place here in the US.

Here's the quote

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As other people have already said, there is a bunch of free will in this: God gave us the power of choice, and the choices we make have consequences.


Mrs Delaware said that according to Ramana Maharshi there is neither free will nor destiny or free choice, they are all human constructs. She also woders if he was an Aspie



Katze

god sucks that's why

y does God suck?

are you serious??

have you lived in a bubble all your life fiona? have you not seen intolerable cruelty or experienced any pain in this life? i guess you haven't, or maybe you just like to dwell in your bubble and forget about others' torment, brush it aside because you don't like to look at it. it's easier to believe that you're too stupid to understand or think for yourself so you leave it in the hands of some invisible gentle giant. well, i hope if it's your turn to suffer one day, your god will be there, because it'll be a rough ride.

i haven't lived in a bubble. i have had hard times but i turst in the Lord 2 get me though them. i have seen awefull things happen but i belive that the Lord is going 2 help these ppl though them.
God Bless
Fiona

A wise person once said that you should pray as though everything depends on the answer to your prayer and act as though everything depends solely on the outcome of your actions. In other words, do the best you can, then trust God to do the rest.

I haven't lived in a bubble either: far from it, and it sorely tested my faith in God before it strengthened it. I wouldn't be half as close now if it weren't for all the hard stuff. Just remember: if the sun didn't set and darkness fall we wouldn't know that the stars existed.

SquanderedPotential - what is your conception of god?

I ask because you speak of god in a traditional sense, but I don't think those are your beliefs - you sound atheist or agnostic to me. Were you raised "christian" and have since rejected it? Are you just addressing it based on the beliefs of others, or do you really think of god as an invisible person in the sky that pushes everything around to make it move and he's just an a**hole? That we're merely puppets on strings and he causes good and bad things to happen? I feel that's not what you think, and yet you seem to blame god for the evil in the world. The most evil I've seen done has been done by humans, not by "nature" (as if we're somehow apart from the rest of the world), and even with nature I doubt you believe there is an invisible "person-god" cracking the earth open during earthquakes.

Just as you say, it's silly to "leave it in the hands of some invisible gentle giant", but you have no problem blaming things on this same invisible gentle giant? I don't understand. I also feel the pain of the world, the devastation and sorrow constantly occurring, even if it's not happening to me, but why "blame god"? Do you do it so you don't have to blame yourself for not doing something about it?

There is no God, period. If you still think there is, let me ask you this.

Why would God let his own Temple get destroyed? Twice! First, by the Babylonians, then by the Romans. Read the following biblical summaries to prove that God doesn't exist.

Israelites worked hard to get that building, to dedicate it to God. They quarried stones of all kinds from all over Judea; they cut the cedars of Lebanon; they hauled all that material all the way to Jerusalem. Given the technology the Israelites had, you can imagine how much effort that took. The resulting First Temple looked amazingly splendid. (Refer to I Kings and II Kings for a description.) In 534 B.C., God turned around and let the Babylonians invade Israel, resulting in the complete leveling of the Temple.

Israelites grieved over the destriction. But they remained faithful in God. They quarried more stone, cut more trees, and hauled the material to Jerusalem. The rebuilt the Second Temple. It was far less splendid than the First, but it was still The Temple. Jesus taught his early followers inside it, after having cast out the vendors. In 70 A.D., the Romans invaded Israel. They leveled Jerusalem to the ground, and destroyed the Second Temple. (Refer to Jeremiah for an account of the destruction.) This temple was never rebuilt. Only one part of it remains, called the Wailing Wall.

After giving you the background, here's a mathemical proof by contradiction. My question to you is this. Why would God allow the destruction of HIS OWN TEMPLE!!? I can expect God not giving a damn about people, but that was his own temple (or temples), for crying out loud. In a way, he would be destroying himself and the people dedicating themselves to him. And if God is as all-knowing as people think he is, he wouldn't destroy himself. This is a contradiction. Conclusion? God doesn't exist.
Q.E.D. (a mathematical abbreviation of "this is what we proved")

My guess as to why "god" lets bad things happen is because there is no god, IMO. If there was a god, and he/she/it was as "loving" and "tolerant" as everyone is decieved to believe, innocent children wouldn't die, and horrible people wouldn't get away with the horrible things they do.

"He" has never helped me. He wasn't there when my mother abused me, or when I had to suffer 12 years of school. He will never be there, because he is about as real as Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny.