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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]People who believe in God, believe that everything comes from God, including the bad stuff.[/b]  [/quote]

If more people believed this it would be more consistent, but too many people take the "all good things come from God, but not the bad stuff" approach to belief. A storm collapses a building and God gets credit for the miracle that some of the buried people survived, and they even thank God for saving them as if God bore no responsibility for sending the storm and dropping the building on them in the first place, or all the people who died and were injured.

Same with the banal platitudes of "it's all part of God's plan," and "God wouldn't give you a burden He didn't know you could carry."

You want to give God the credit for good things, the omnipotent, omniscient God should get credit for the bad things. [/quote]

The honest thing to do would be to admit that there is no free will and that God is omniscient, but people need to believe what they want to believe to stay sane.[/quote]

Thank you both for posting this. My family had a truly horrific medical event that will change all of our lives forever and when people mention God's plan or give God credit for the small positives in the ocean of negatives I always want to ask why they give God credit for positives but never the negatives? But I ultimately know people are trying to be supportive, so I just thank them.[/quote]

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