In the minds of religious people, God does only good stuff - like save babies from cancer if you pray to God for them. The babies who die from Cancer? there's some kind of a lesson there, or maybe "God's will" I don't know. But God is not blamed for the bad stuff, just gets credit for the good stuff. |
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Yes, like the stories of when a kid survives a car crash that killed his entire family and Christians go "God saved that little boy!" Uh... then why did everyone else die? |
It's all fan fiction so why are some stories more valid than others? Just because they were written thousands of years ago? If your god is omnipotent then he gave babies cancer. That's just how omnipotence works. And he doesn't even need a reason. MFer can do whatever TF he wants. |
Yes, I was raised in Christianity and attended a religious school. We were taught that bad things happen to good people because the universe is natural so we can have free will. Yet at the same time told to pray for God's healing for various people. It’s extremely contradictory. |
How are we to believe that everything on this site is accurate? |
You are worried that this site is inaccurate, but are completely fine with taking the anonymous opinions of unidentified strangers posting here as advice and information? Why do you trust the anonymous strangers here? You don’t know their names or backgrounds or educational history. The people who maintain the linked site and their educational histories are documented on the website. https://www.gotquestions.org/about.html You should ask each poster here their name, religious beliefs, educational history, etc, if you are actually worried about the information they are posting. |
I feel compelled to repeat this, which has not been responded to. It addresses the substance of the information in those links, and not the background of the site creators, which could not be less relevant. What you mean is you don't give a $%$%# about the question. I get it, because there is no logical answer. If there was you would provide it. As for your link, you need only read past the paragraph that asserts the people of Sodom deserved what god did to them: The claim that those God punished were “uniformly blameless” is completely without merit and historically inaccurate. The Bible records the exact opposite about the peoples whom God acted upon in judgment. A few examples include: “After the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say to yourself, ‘The LORD has brought me here to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.’ No, it is on account of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is going to drive them out before you. It is not because of your righteousness or your integrity that you are going in to take possession of their land; but on account of the wickedness of these nations, the LORD your God will drive them out before you, to accomplish what he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” (Deuteronomy 9:4-5, emphasis added). Those are words from YOUR link, and not only do they not address the problem of evil, they pinpoint illustrate the need for the question, because this behavior attributed to god is objectively evil. |
Deuteronomy 9:4-5 warns the Israelites not to attribute their possession of Canaan to their own righteousness, but to God's justice and faithfulness. The principle in this passage applies to Christians, who should not think that they are justified before God because of their own righteousness. Instead, Christians should look to the righteousness of Jesus Christ. |
Why would anyone care what a bunch of theologians say? They are simply regurgitating stories they have been told since they were a kid. Very biased. Very full of crap. |
So the experts are people with no education or experience in the field? Anonymous strangers are the real experts in your opinion? |
Non-religious pp said they did not care about the opinions of theologians and said nothing about anonymous strangers. |
"Experts" in what exactly? Theologians are incapable of providing an unbiased analysis of anything religious-related. They are more bought into the lies than most. |
“Why would anyone care what a bunch of theologians say? They are simply regurgitating stories they have been told since they were a kid. Very biased. Very full of crap.” Nope, pp said educated theologians are full of crap. Not caring about someone’s opinion doesn’t automatically render them “full of crap” and biased. |
I reject your first premise |