Do you want to know why God exists and yet, why there is so much evil?
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Evil is man made. God has given us free will. It is up to us to recognize evil and choose to do what is right. In the end, our good will be rewarded.
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I don't believe in the Christian and Jewish God,but sometimes I hate the idea of him.He is very evil and unfair.How could a loving God punish humankind for the wrongdoings of two people?How could an all-knowing God not know that eve would eat the apple?How could God send people to hell for not believing something that has no proof whatsoever?I don't really like this perception of God.
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If I was God, I would see no reason to just "get it over with" as I believe that we are all here to learn and grow.  I don't believe necessarily in "good" and "evil" because in my beliefs, nothing ever just happens for no reason.  Everyone has a purpose and path, regardless of whether or not they are perceived as good or evil while here.\n\nI don't believe that the things most people perceive as "evil" are truly bad.  From each "evil" society learns a great deal and so even the so called "evil" served a positive purpose.  \n\nWe can look at some of the most heinous events in our history and on that flip side of the coin..pinpoint all the good that came as a result of the event.  The ends do not justify the means and if I were God I would really prefer we all find a better way to learn, but I would not be able to discount the benefits from all the catalysts.\n\nSo no, I would not just get it over with but allow each individual to grow and fulfill their own paths with the knowledge that there is a reason for everything.  And if I were "God", I'm sure I'd already know all the reasons some things have to happen and play out.
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God is big enough to take questions are you willing to hear or seek out the answers?\n\nGod does not cause the suffering men/women cause the suffering when the are driven by greed and hatred.\nWhat do you want God to do, kill everyone who does something we consider wrong? Or do you want God to take away our free will and turn us into robots?\nGod has chosen the best path...being able to comfort and guide the hurt to "greener pastures"
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your right, i actually cant explain it very well. I'm not defensive, i just want you to read this \n\n\nhttp://everystudent.com/features/isthere.html?OVRAW=God%20existence&OVKEY=existence%20of%20god&OVMTC=standard\n\n\nit has overwhelming info that should help you see that there has to be a God, because this world is no accident
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Why is there suffering?\n\nPeople of various religions have gone to their religious leaders and teachers to ask why there is so much suffering. Often, the response is that suffering is God’s will and that he long ago determined everything that would ever happen, including tragic events. Many are told that God’s ways are mysterious or that he brings death upon people—even children—so that he can have them in heaven with him. As you have learned, though, Jehovah God never causes what is bad. The Bible says: “Far be it from the true God to act wickedly, and the Almighty to act unjustly!”—Job 34:10.\n\nDo you know why people make the mistake of blaming God for all the suffering in the world? In many cases, they blame Almighty God because they think that he is the real ruler of this world. They do not know a simple but important truth that the Bible teaches. \n\nThe real ruler of this world is Satan the Devil. The Bible clearly states: “The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” (1 John 5:19) When you think about it, does that not make sense? This world reflects the personality of the invisible spirit creature who is “misleading the entire inhabited earth.” (Revelation 12:9) Satan is hateful, deceptive, and cruel. So the world, under his influence, is full of hatred, deceit, and cruelty. That is one reason why there is so much suffering.\n\nA second reason why there is so much suffering is that, mankind has been imperfect and sinful ever since the rebellion in the garden of Eden. Sinful humans tend to struggle for dominance, and this results in wars, oppression, and suffering. (Ecclesiastes 4:1; 8:9) A third reason for suffering is “time and unforeseen occurrence.” (Ecclesiastes 9:11) In a world without Jehovah as a protective Ruler, people may suffer because they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.\n\nIt is comforting for us to know that God does not cause suffering. He is not responsible for the wars, the crimes, the oppression, or even the natural disasters that cause people to suffer. Still, we need to know, Why does Jehovah allow all this suffering? If he is the Almighty, he has the power to stop it. Why, then, does he hold back? The loving God that we have come to know must have a good reason.—1 John 4:8.
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god is just something people say when there is nothing else.\n\nif there was a god why is there so much suffering in the world.\n\nits a load of rubbish if you ask me
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I was raised a Catholic, which taught me nothing except what I had to fear, what I had to do in order to get to heaven and not hell.  Go to confession regularly.  That was always a nightmare, telling a priest my most personal information.  What bunk!!  God has done nothing for me in this life.  He never took away my pain and misery.  I learned to deal with that on my own.  So why would I need a god?\nGod takes many forms and ideas.  The fact that every nation on this earth has a god of some kind, proves that he does not exist, otherwise we would all believe in the same god.  We create misery and wars in the name of god.  That is supposed to be a good thing?\nI see god in nature all around us, the renewal of life, the oceans, the mountains, the prairies and deserts. And lastly but not least....the devil can be your god, and that is not a good thing......\nBeing a good person is what it is all about!
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By DEFINTION, God is good. \nAnything He does is good, never bad.\nTherefore, if He does something that *seems* bad to us, there is a good reason for it.
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Do you really think anyone on Yahoo Answers has the answer to what many philosphers have been trying to figure out for thousands of years? Ehh... I'll try.\n\nI have spent countless nights trying to get some sort of answer myself. It's really hard for me accept that there is a God though. Either that, or it's hard for me to accept the God that my parents tried to drill into to my head since I was a baby. (They are fundamentalist Christians by the way. the outrageous ideas make me sad that there are more people out there like them.)\n\nI think there might a God because it seems very unlikely that such a complex life could have happened by accident, or by an explosion of matter. The way that DNA is constructed, cells, and just the way that the human body functions seems all too perfect for it to happen by some random chance. \n\nHowever, I as I said before, I don't know if I could ever believe in the Catholic or Christian God. Supposedly, God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. That means he is all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful. I'm sure that you are well aware of the sorrow, suffering and pain that a billion people feel every day due to war,starvation, genocide, poverty, and most importantly evil. If God was all-good, he would not allow this to happen. If God is all-good, but he can't stop it, that means he is not all-powerful. If said God is not all-powerul, then he cannot be God. \n\nGod cannot be omnicent or all-knowing, because humans have free will, and those two are contridictory. One might argue that everything needs a creator. Even the Universe. Something cannot create itself. So God created the universe, but who or what created God? \n\nPerhaps there is a God, but it is likely that all of those rules, and dogmatic views that Christians teach is not accurate. The texts of the Bible have been PROVEN to be altered by numerous kings, who put into it what they wanted. Similar to how George W. Bush is running the country based on his morals. I don't know, you decide.\n\n The answer will probably never be solved, and people will always be kept wondering. I believe in God, but I don't believe in organized religion.\n\nRead this, you would find it interesting. It's a converstaion between an ordinary man and God. Good read.\nhttp://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal
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First of all, I believe God does not exist.\nIf you want a reason then contact me.
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He doesn't exist. The sad thing is, there are people who think he does and they accept this torture becuase they think it's part of god's plan. Sad, huh???\n\n\nThanks for asking.
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I've never heard anyone blame God for anything.\n\nI think the general rule of thumb is that we (the opposition) generally wonder why, if God is all-loving, AND all-powerful, AND all-merciful, AND all-compassionate,etc... does he not step in to STOP (or at least intervene in) the 'destruction and unexplained deaths'. \n\nThere is no answer for that. The whole claim is perposterous!\nI think if anything good did happen - we would jump up and down looking for the 'God' behind it. But so far.... the well has been found to be dry and wanting.
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The issue is not that God’s goodness, God’s power, and evil’s reality can’t fit together, but that there are additional pieces to the puzzle that fit between them and hold them together.\n\n1. Free Will is a partial answer. \nFree will gives a partial answer to this question of evil and suffering. It goes like this: \n\nGod made humanity with free will. \nEvil is a result of human choices. Our first parents chose to sin. \nAs a result of sin, this world has been plunged into suffering. \nEvil, therefore, finds its origin not in the Creator, but in the creature. God receives no blame for evil—we do. We get the credit for evil because we’re the ones who chose to abandon God.\n\n2. As a result of free will, history is discontinuous. \nThere was no evil in God's original creation. But Adam had free will—he was able to sin or to not sin. And he chose to sin. And Adam's choice affected more than just himself. He represented all of humanity. Indeed, Adam represented the whole world (he had dominion over it), and when Adam was sinning, the whole world was declaring war on God. Thus even the natural world was plunged into suffering—animate as well as inanimate (the ground being cursed in Genesis 3 and thus awaiting full salvation at Christ’s return — Romans 8:19-22). This discontinuity is what Christians call the Fall. The world is good (Gen. 1), but fallen in rebellion against God. \n\nHow could God create a world full of evil and suffering? He didn’t. He created a world in which people enjoyed communion with God, intimacy with each other, perfect harmony with the creation, and everlasting life—a world with no suffering, no sin and no guilt. History is radically discontinuous. The world changed at the Fall. \n\nAnd the fact that the Bible says the world is good but fallen certainly makes sense of life. Human beings are capable of great beauty and kindness, but also great evil. Children are cute, but selfish. Adults are smart, but manipulative. The Bible accounts for both the glory and the shame of being human. We’re God’s image, but an image marred and distorted by our divorce from our Creator. \n\nThe Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal spoke of the grandeur and misery of humanity. We are capable of great things, but are always capable of pondering an existence better than the life we now have. Thus we find ourselves in misery precisely because we have the ability to contemplate a better existence. Perhaps the fact that we can imagine a life without suffering is itself a reminder deep within our human consciousness of the life we once enjoyed in loins of father Adam — a life we have lost and can only regain through the redemptive intervention of God in human history. This is a redemption that will only be complete when Jesus Christ returns.\n\n3. If you want God to eradicate evil, you’re demanding that He eradicate us. God’s alternative to eradicating evil people is to redeem them. \nRemember the words of Peter: “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). You blame God for evil in the world? I assure you He can take care of the problem right now — but you won’t like the way He does so. Is there evil in your heart? He can destroy your heart at any moment. The amazing thing, though, is that God doesn’t do this. He made your tongue, and you use it to speak against Him — but He is patient with you. For now. \n\nRedemption is God’s striking alternative to eradication. Rather than destroying his fallen creation, He has chosen to restore a people for Himself, a people who one day will live with Him in a restored creation (2 Peter 3:13).\n\n4. Evil is not a thing, but a privation of the good. \nThis was the point that Augustine made in the fourth century when refuting the dualistic Manichean cult out of which he had come when converted to Christ. Mani h
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Wow what a great question. So I understand. God created everything, he created the devil, and therefore he created sin. (which is the breaking of Law.. which he created!)\nSo when people say oh... its the devils work, its is just as much gods work too, just as much as a pretty flower is his work, so is the the Tsunami and 9/11... Ok so god is good.. but god is Evil too!\n\nHe doesn't deserve my worship.
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The existance of god is in fact a logical halting problem.  Since there cannot exist evidence beyond "faith" or lack of understanding we can not prove or disprove gods existance.  The best logical answer to give is; if nothing else god exists as a means to enforce set of guidlines to keep the masses under control.  This was the easily identifyable  purpose of most pre judea-christian religions, as seen through the governments (of those times) ability to manipulate the local religion to their benifit.  Does god exist? In this sense yes.  Is it a good thing? If your the one running the show.  Note: I think I am the first here to answer all 3 questions.
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1) Ok, as to the answer of “God creating evil / bad” here is a story recounted by one of the users on yahoo answers. Unfortunately, I don’t know her Id, so I can not give her due credit for this wonderful story. I had loved it so much that I printed it out and pasted it in my notebook. With my apologies to the writer, here it is (abbreviated, since I had to type it and it’s long):\nThe university professor challenged his students with this question:\n“Did God create everything that exists?”\nA student bravely replied, “Yes, he did.”\n“If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then God is evil.”\nThe professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted that he had proven once more that religion was a myth. \nAnother student raised his hand and said, “Professor, does cold exist?”\nThe professor replied: “Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?”\n“In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Absolute Zero is the total absence of heat. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat.”\nThe student continued: “Professor, does darkness exist?”\n“Of course.”\n“Once again you are wrong sir. Darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light, you can study, but not darkness. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn’t this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present.”\nFinally, the young man said: “Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God, just like darkness and cold; a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light.”\nThe professor sat down.\n\n2) In relation to God punishing us for doing bad things…he does not. He knows that we will make mistakes; the problem is not when we do bad things…the problem is when we don’t REPENT. Repentance is in actuality, you learning from your mistakes and GETTING BETTER. In this life, we do wrong and receive the wrongs of others and through the two; we learn, understand, hopefully become compassionate and move on as better people. Those who get worse are not those who do the MOST wrongs; they are those who are blind and ignorant of that fact and so they never repent…they never LEARN…they never evolve…they never get better! In Islam for example, as long as you repent, God tells you to be ASSURED that you will be granted mercy every single time! God NEVER refuses repentance, no matter how many times you do the wrong and no matter how many times you return over and over to the same wrong as long as when you repent, it comes from the heart…because He knows that it is through it we know His mercy and learn to be tolerant and merciful ourselves with others; for we are ALL fallible by nature. \n\n3) As to the question of ‘why did he create the world’? Usually, but not always of course, those who think that the world is a horrible place are the ones who ask that. The worst things that happen to us or are committed by us to others are all in themselves opportunities in reality either to give us or others the chance to learn and be better…and that applies to the hardest and the worst of scenarios and obstacles. How many times have we heard someone say: ‘getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me’ when in reality at the time of that occurrence, that person was utterly devastated. ONLY those who wake up from the initial shock of the ‘bad’ occurrence in their lives and make the willful dec