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Old 23rd October 2008, 09:42 AM   #117
Radrook
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I don't know if anyone else has already asked in this thread, but, Radrook, why are/were there such terrible things in our world if God is standing by? Why are people killed by tsunamis, cyclones, bush fires, floods, earthquakes, etc.. Why did the Black Plague kill 75 million of "God's children"? Why did God make bird flu? Why did God allow Hitler to be born when he already knew what Hitler would do? Why does God create these things that kill so many people? Why did God make the substances that go into junk food fattening? Why did God make tabacco give lung cancer? Why did God even invent cancer? Why doesn't God just get rid of cancer? Why?
Excellent questions! The Bible provides an answer to all these if we are willing to listen.
Since they are many, let my try to simplify by enumeration.

1. God's original plan was a paradise earth and eternal human life in perfect health.

2. A challenge to his right to govern was issued by a rebel spirit creature.

3. Mankind joined in on the rebellion.

4. Issues were raised

a. Mankind didn't need God to govern him. They could do it all by himself. With Satan's help-of course.

b. God was selfish and was lying to mankind because he didn't want mankind to be like him.

c. Mankind would only serve God if they derived some material benefit. Otherwise they would invariably curse him to his face.

Destruction of the rebels would prove NOTHING except that God is stronger, something that was not being challenged. In fact, their destruction and the ignoring of the challenge would
give credence that there indeed was something to hide and that God feared a test of these concepts via granting the rebels an opportunity to try to prove their point.

The issue was not who was the strongest. It was a moral issue. Did God have a right to govern. Was God's way the best? Or was he just doing things to keep man down? Did mankind's rebellion prove that no creature would serve God if placed under duress or tempted?

Job 1:10-12

10Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

11But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

Time was needed for these issues to be resolved.

First he allowed the rebels to do things their way without his blessing. The removal of his blessing brought the inevitable death and suffering we have been experiencing ever since.
He also promised a restoration of things to their former pristine conditions once the issues were resolved to satisfaction. The restoration demanded a Ransom sacrifice to give mankind a righteous status that ultimately Adam's sin would not be the factor determining a person's ultimate destiny. That Ransom was Jesus who provided a counter example to Adam's rebellion by remaining faithful under extreme duress and covered Adamic sin we inherit by paying the price of death in our behalf.

A time of the end of this temporary state of affairs was promised, and the signs to recognize that time were provided. Descriptions of the restoration of all things were given in which all suffering sickness and death would cease.

Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.


But first the supporters of this rebellion have to be removed by force.

Daniel 2: 44

44And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.




In short, what you are describing in your questions is a temporary situation allowed to answer issues raised-a situation that will soon be terminated by God's heavenly government followed by a restoration. That is the biblical response you requested.


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I don't have a problem with people who believe in these things, but when they pipe up in public that they do believe it I can't help myself but ask what rationality is behind it (there's usually none, but twisting words and sophism can fix that).
What do you call all the incessant gratuitous pro-atheist anti-God negatives perpetually cropping up on this forum-piping down in private?

BTW
The lungs weren't designed to inhale carcinogenic laden smoke. They were designed to inhale air. The initial coughing gone experiences when trying to force the smoke into them testifies to that as does the development of emphysema. In short, the tobacco leaf wasn't designed to be lit and its smoke taken into lungs. That's one of man's idiotic ideas he's come with during the time allotted for him to do things his supposedly superior way.

Tsunamis are an example of how the earth behaves when not under God's total supervision. Human stupidity of course contributes to the disasters since humans insist on making their living quarters next to such things as volcanoes, rivers that are known to regularly flood, areas known to be tornado highways, etcetera.

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