Did God periodically come to Earth to create new strains of malaria, aids, flu, cold, plague,  or did these disease become stronger strains of sickness to adapt to the environment of antibiotics.\n\n\nIf it is God, is he trying to kill us,  did God invent AIDS to kill people, and then come to Earth to invent stronger strains of AIDS to fight our scientists.
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Makes sense, right? God created AIDs to kill 38 million people, and most of them being Christians?\n\nAdaptation - otherwise, there would be very little malaria, flu, and other illnesses in the world. Viruses especially are hard to cure.\n\nTo respond to the girl below: being on top of the food chain has nothing to do with diseases. All animals suffer from diseases. \n\nWhy are our best minds not able to eliminate all diseases? I would like for preachers and evangelists to come up with cures, please.\n\nSure, God created "S-E-X", but what about children who got AIDs from their parents? Sure, it's their parents' fault but not their own, so why should they suffer?
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I'm not the greatest expert on the bible, but I try so here goes\nJesus spent most of his time with the poor and oppressed. He belived they needed more help than anyone else. He wasn't afraid to touch, or heal, or stay in a poor person's house. He believe that all of us need to go to places that may make us uncomfotable and try to help others. There is a quote which I'm trying to think of off the top of my head...\nIt isn't the healthy which need help, but the sick.  In other words we in our own lives try to help those who may not seem like the type of people you want to be around. The poor, homeless, and nonbelievers were the type HE had most contact with, therefore we should do the same.
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I was not sure so I check a Bible scholar named Matthew Henry and he said "Miriam was struck with a leprosy, but not Aaron, because she was first in the transgression, and God would put a difference between those that mislead and those that are misled." I am still pondering the question but hopefully this will give you something to think about.
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Is possible, but the most interesting thing is that we are alein too. Our DNA could not evolutioned in the time that we knows. The scientist and co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule, Francis Crick says that our DNA came altrhough artificial mechanism to the earth because the structure is so complicated and a meteor would have damage it. In the OT God is talking so strange, like a Human Being, he feel emotions, good and destructive emotions, obviously he could to be not the real God or the creator of the Universe, may be He was a Super Natural being showing to us the real path to the S`piritual Evolution. May be He was the responsible of many strange things that the cience only could to explain with the Super Natural Being Intervention. We knows now that we was guided by a being that could to make many things in the earth like the big structures and complicated engginner or advanced technology found in the History in many cultures who said that thir Gods could to be seen.\n\nIs possible it if we take the references in the Zecharia Sitchin studies when the cultures show us the relationship between God and the Human Beings. Interesting parts like in Genesis 6 show us that the "Angels" had sex with human beings having physical body, knowing that the Angels like our Lord Jesus Christ says can not to get married. Is so interesting because may be Jesus Christ came to the heart from the real God, changing the old concepts about God and the old laws. Why Jesus would change the laws? What relationship could to have Jesus with the God in the old testament? Why the law changed so drastically? May be the Super Natural being that was trying to show us the real path to the spirituality fails in his try and Jesus, may be like a superior lader or a real representation from God came to repair the wrong concept created before. With JesusChrist all humans beings could to be saved, not only the Jews people, all world could to be saved.\n\nFor this rason the God in OT could to be from other reality, other dimenssion, not from the other planet, because he really was a creator and a Super natural being and is a big question that probably nobody will answer until the ned of the time.
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I think perhaps God should make decisions like those. Medical Science is great and all but God has power over all things. Choose your child. From the mother's stand point what better way to die, than by giving another life. Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for a friend. (I think baby relatives count too.) From the father's stand point what better way to show God you totally trust him? A friend of mine was told about six months ago that she should abort her child because he would never breathe on his own, his skull would not be formed,his facial features would be distorted, and the child's brain would be in essence.... dead.Pam and Mike were basically told to kill their unborn child because a medical test "proved" it would be for the best. Rather than putting their faith in medicine they put their faith in God and  today a miracle happened. Pam gave birth to a basically healthly child. He is breathing just fine all by himself, despite some minor physical abnormalities he is a beautiful healthy child. Praise God for this precious life! If Mike would have put his faith in science, or Pam had chosen instead to have her baby aborted because something might be wrong.... well the world would have missed out on this brand new perfect life. The real question is not who can I save? But, in whom can I put my faith? You have no control over life or death, which means YOU can NOT Choose who lives. ie. If the father decides "choose" to abort the child who is to say that during the procedure the mother would not also die? It has happened. an abortion requires a serious, though minimally invasive, surgical procedure.It's called a Dilitation and Curretage more commonly refered to as a D&C.(not only for decicive abortions, a D&C is commonly done on women who have had a spontaneous abortion or miscarriage to prevent uterine infections)I personally have seen (working on a surgical floor) women who have nearly died from complications of this "minimally invasive" procedure.If you put your faith in God he will direct your path.
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That is an often-asked question, and a fair one.  The distinction that needs to be made is that God is not somehow uncaring about suffering.\n\nSuffering comes from the original sin.  Sort of a snowball effect.  It began with the fall of man in the garden of Eden, and has gathered speed throughout thousands of years.  Illness, sorrow, death; all sin, are fallout from sin entering the world.\n\nThere will come a time when these things will be no more; when Jesus comes to rule and reign on earth.  Until He does, as He told us "you will have tribulation on this earth"..meaning, we will suffer.\n\nGod cares about us and our hurts, that is why, first and foremost He sent His son to redeem us...and it is also why we have God's spirit to comfort us, in all circumstances.
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When He Healed Me Supernaturally From Cancer Years Ago When The Doctors Couldn't Go Any Further!.... Thank GOD For Good Doctors.....But Myself As Well As Many Others Found Out That Doctors Can ONLY TREAT YOU..But GOD IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN HEAL YOU!!!!...(I Hope No One Takes This The Wrong Way)...\n\nThere are Many Things That GOD Has & Still Do In My Life That There would'nt Be Enough Room To Say!
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from dust to dust... God create as from dust to remind us without HIM, we are nothing... All perfect things come from GOD... from meaningless to a glorify creature, because people are created in HIS Image... without HIS image then we're nothing.. He's planning not by coincidence... I put some verse, hopefully help us...\n\nThe LORD God took a handful of SOIL and made a MAN. God breathed LIFE into the man, and the man started BREATHING \n(Gen 2:7)\n\nGod said, "Now we will make humans, and they will be like us. We will let them rule the fish, the birds, and all other living creatures." So God created humans to be like himself; he made men and women. \n(Gen 1:26-27)\n\n\nGbu
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Wow:  Thanks for the info about the DNA.  For those readers that wondered how the world comes into being without God creating what He alone is able and willing, such info as the DNA, let alone the rest of the whole complex of Created mass and masterpieces, it rests on this issue.  You see, you think, and you understand.  OR you see, and refuse to see, you think and you refuse to think, and you refuse to understand.  Part of that matter of Free choice.  The simple fact is, what you choose to believe is also part of the gift you were given in Creation.  You believe or not, and amazing, it gives you a part in the rest of the community.  There are adequate numbers of unbelievers, that will all affirm your faithlessness, just as there are adequate numbers of believers who will affirm your believe in pagan cult, just as there are adequate numbers of believers in Islam, or Christianity or any other form religion.  Numbers however, doesnt affirm factuallity.  Flat world theorists believe it.  Round world hanging in space believe it.  Sun circling the earth believers affirm it, as do earth circling the sun believers affirm their bit of observation.  \n   Did Noach go searching for the animals?  No, the Text says, according to Moses, affirming that GOd instructed him to write, that God caused the animals to come to the ark.  Noachs job was to build it and stock it with grain and grass, as all the animals would eat vegetarian while aboard, including Noach and family.  Is that possible?  Depends on how you view and believe.  Impossible for those who refuse to believe that GOD was involved.  Possible for those that choose to believe in such miracle process or natural process.   It is all amazing, no matter what you believe.  If you believe God created, thats amazing.  From my point of view thats acceptable.  What would be more amazing is to try to figure out how all this world in all its complexity came into being without a Creator God, since it is obviously more complex than any human can contrive.  Heck,,,we cant even create a blade of grass from nothing, let alone a human eye..or the rest of a human being.\n   The story of the group of scientists who were all working on a grand assignment, to duplicate life...and one day they all agreed, they had done it.  Accomplished the grand impossible,  they had developed a life form in a petri dish.   Eureka they shouted...we did it.  We dont need GOD any more.   THEN GOD SAID :  Now, try it without anything:  No dirt, no fire, no water, no air and no petri dish.
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It is possible that some people have more resistance to AIDs than others. This has been conjectured for years. No one really knows for sure, however. And it is all of the populations of Northern Europe that suffered from the plague that might have more resistance, not just people in Iceland.
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I am not sure how it all came to be as it is.  I wonder sometimes if perhaps we created ourselves.  I mean, through reincarnation, we have the opportunity to become better and better,and perhaps we have more will and power than people realize to become more advanced.  I know, that sounds hair-brained, but it is just a wild idea I had.\n\nI think it is possible that God guides the evolution process, causing the mutations that will become beneficial, or survival advantages.\n\nI think there is a whole lot more to evolution than we realize.  I think there is something marvelous about it and random mutations do not fully explain it to me.  I think there must be some mechanism which actually somehow accelerates mutations when the need for a change is present.  Whether that mechanism was put there by God or not, who could really say?\n\nAs the Rig Veda says, "who really knows, who can say, from whence it came?  Maybe God knows, and maybe even he does not."
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No, mother nature is mother nature. Storms have always been a part of the climate. Earthquakes because the Teutonic plates shift. Tornado's by severe storms. Why would you assume that God would be out to get us? He created everything( if that is your belief) so it follows that He created the weather too.
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First, you need to define evolution.  You're talking about micro evolution which has no problems with Christianity.  When you start getting into macro, stellar, cosmic and chemical evolution, we've got problems.\n\nIf the ebola virus evolved, it evolved from another virus.  That is micro evolution.  Macro evolution says that that process is evidence that a virus can turn into a dog over time.  This is where you're getting into religious faith and not science.  \n\nThere are hundereds of different breeds of dogs to include wolves and foxes, etc.  Micro evolution says that all those breeds of dogs came from a common ancestor...a dog.  Again, no problem with Christianity.\nMacro evolution will say that the dogs, cats, birds, snakes, plants, blah, blah, all came from a common ancestor.  That's ludicrous and severely contradicts the bible.\n\nNow, as far as your question about before the fall of man...\nGod told Adam that if they ate of the fruit, they would die.  We know that they didn't drop dead on the spot, so what did He mean?  He meant that they would change world events to bring death into the world.\n\nThe world event that possibly changed all of this was the flood.  When man knowingly was sinful (because of Adam), God had to destroy the world (death from the sin of Adam).  Before the flood, the earth had much different living conditions than we do today.  There was the protective canopy of water around the earth that made it paradise.  It increased the oxygen and air pressure to double, it blocked UV rays and had many other benefits.  This is how people were able to live to be 900 years old.\nIt's possible that viruses and other diseases started forming after that protective canopy was gone.  Add in man's industrial chemicals and we've got a recipe for disaster.\nThere was research done with poisonous snakes.  They put the snakes in a hyperbaric chamber and pumped the air pressure to double.  The snakes came out non-poisonous.  How was the world before the flood?  We can't know for sure, but some amazing scientific research has been done on this topic.\n\nAnother possibility is that many viruses were always there, but was just recently released because we went into the rain forest and started cutting down trees.  If it was locked in its environment before and we released it, then it didn't evolve, it was discovered.\n\nYou should check out www.drdino.com and download the seminar titled "The garden of Eden".  It will explain these things in much greater detail.
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He said -\n"I form light and create darkness, I make weal and create woe;\n I the Lord do all these things" \n\nHaving the word "evil" ....this is often mistranslated in English Bibles, but in the Hebrew it is absolutely unmistakable. \n\nCan you explain what you mean by "evil" and what God meant by "evil"???????????? \n\nYou can't question God!!!!! nor his word!!!!\n\nAnyway don't forget that God can make woe for the evil people. However I'm sure he won't do that. He is a loving father to all of us even through we doubt Him and try to find faults with God, His word and His creation.
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You have a lot of questions here, so I'll do my best:  \n\nWhy did God flood the world?\n  The story goes that God was angered at the wickedness of mankind and sent the flood to wipe the slate clean.  Noah and his family were spaerd because of Noah's righteousness.\n\nWhy does he kill everybody?\n  I'm just going to assume that this is part of the flood question, and therefore see above.\n\nWhy did he destroy Soddom and goomorrah(sic)? \n  For much the same reason as the great flood.  These were two cities destroyed for their sins.  What these sins were isn't fully explained, but we can assume they were heinous.\n\nWhy does he kill people in Pakistan and New Orleans?\n  He doesn't.  Natural disasters occur and people die.  That is a tragedy, but it is not God's fault.  God doesn't cause natural disasters, they just happen.  It's a part of life.\n\nWhy does he allow Hitler to kill 6 million people and he goes to heaven because he is Cristian(sic).... And Anne Frank does not because she is Jew?\n  Ok, God gave mankind free will.  Free will is the ability to decide our own paths.  It is our choice to be good or evil, not God's.  If God interfered, it would no longer be free will.  Hitler does not go to heaven.  Merely being Christian is not enough, especially considering that Hitler committed suicide, which prevents you from going to heaven.  I don't believe that there is any doctrine that says Jews cannot go to heaven.\n\nHe is a racist and a homophobe!!! Why do people like God when he is sooooooooo nasty!\n  God isn't racist and homophobic.  Some people who interpret God are, and they spread a message of hate and intolerance.  To many people, however, God is a being of comfort and forgiveness.  Peace and tolerance.  Bear in mind that the Bible was written by men, and men are flawed.  The church is run by men.  We will never be perfect, but we try to do teh best we can.\n\n\nI hope this helps.
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God could have been the power that started the Big Bang....that put the amoeba on the earth. Evolution can go hand in hand with religious beliefs.
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God created mankind good and gave them all they needed in the garden of Eden. Imagine how wonderful it must have been. There was no curse, no pain, no weeds and thorns to pick, no burning sun to sweat under and no difficulties with the animals. Even the mosquito's didn't bite. God gave them a paradise but one thing He would not give up was that He was God, not them. And so He gave them the command not to eat from one of the trees so that they might always know that He was God. Imagine only one of all the trees. How much easier could it have been. He could have kept all the trees and told them they could only eat potatoes or something after all they were His, He made them. But when Satan tempted them and said "you will be like God!" they disobeyed. Not because they just wanted to eat but wanted to be like God robbing Him of His honor. We get upset just when someone is driving to slow in front of us. How much more does God have a right to maintain His honor. We are only creatures after all. Plus God is perfect, and Holy. If He didn't keep His word (He told them they would be punished), He would be a sinner and not a Holy and Righteous God. He had no choice but to keep His word. On top of that He has also given a way to be forgiven by sending one to pay the price. Seems like merciful and Good God to me. I know I'm not perfect.