Why does God allow us to suffer?

[Extraneous]

Simply wrong. Go and do your research. Look up any table of 'religious belief by nation'. You are terribly misinformed or wilfully ignorant.



So what? You are rambling.

You believe everything you are told? I observe with my eyes things in the world as they are. I dont just follow words in a book.

 

[SteveB28]

Look at what Atheism is doing for this world right now. You come on the internet and engage in strife. For what purpose? Do you think that you will actually do anything but create strife? No, there will be no logical outcome to this discussion. It will just go on and on, without resolution. That's madness.

Again, do some research. In the USA, you will find that the fastest growing 'religious view' is that expressed by those with no religious belief. So, what purpose? To encourage that growth for one.

And how, pray tell, does one "create strife" by simply rejecting the claims made by another? Shouldn't the claimant be called to task to support his claims with evidence?

 

[SteveB28]

You believe everything you are told? I observe with my eyes things in the world as they are. I dont just follow words in a book.

Yes, you form your views without evidence. That is plainly clear. You need not explain further.

 

[joshua 1 9]

I understand what you're saying but i dont think you understand whay im saying. Doesnt much matter.

It sounded like you were trying to say I suffer more then most people and my reply to that is: I don't think so. Even if that were true and your a Christian then you should rejoice that your reward is going to be greater because we are not saved by works.

 

[SteveB28]

Sounds like brain washing to me. Some people have been more indoctrinated then others.

So, all those people around the world who state that they have no religious beliefs are lying? They really do believe in the supernatural, but have been "brainwashed" into stating otherwise?

Oh dear.

 

[SteveB28]

You believe everything you are told? I observe with my eyes things in the world as they are. I dont just follow words in a book.

By the way, the irony contained within the emboldened section was too much to ignore.

 

[Extraneous]

This may be true in your isolated case, but it is not so for so many others. Those who use their faith as justification for framing laws to subjugate or outlaw or vilify others.



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What you are describing is actually the lack of religious teaching. Christians dont follow the doctrine they are given. They instead follow politicians, some of which are Atheists. Seeking the kingdom means to forsake our earthly citizenship. Politics will not help us become spiritual people but will only cause us to engage in strife which is contrary to true spiritualism.

Don't blame my faith, blame people who don't follow it.

 

[Extraneous]

By the way, the irony contained within the emboldened section was too much to ignore.

The irony is that you are guilty of the same thing you accuse me of. However, i dont shape my political views on scripture, i use scripture for my personal life. I dont try to force it on others via politics.

 

[SteveB28]

The irony is that you are guilty of the same thing you accuse me of. However, i dont shape my political views on scripture, i use scripture for my personal life. I dont try to force it on others via politics.

The irony is not a politically flavoured one. Think about religious instruction.

 

[Extraneous]

The irony is not a politically flavoured one. Think about religious instruction.

You follow words in a book and you think they are infallible, but they are not. They are instead riddled with propaganda. The difference between my book and yours is that im not trying to force you to live by my book. You however are trying to force yours.

 

[SkyWriting]

So your saying these people are dying because they haven't came to God . Or it's my fault, that I cant afford to feed them all. I'm not getting your point.

Are you feeding even one?

No God does not extend lives on earth.
That is not His priority.
His goal is to save all for eternity.

 

[joshua 1 9]

By the way, the irony contained within the emboldened section was too much to ignore.

Instead of taking pot shots at people why don't you bring something to the table so we can examine what you have to contribute to the conversation.

 

[joshua 1 9]

So your saying these people are dying because they haven't came to God . Or it's my fault, that I cant afford to feed them all. I'm not getting your point.

Eternal life requires spiritual food. Then you can enter into eternal life and life "forever".

 

[joshua 1 9]

Are you feeding even one?

No God does not extend lives on earth.
That is not His priority.
His goal is to save all for eternity.

He does extend lives for those who follow His commandments. We are given 70 years or if for reason of strength 80. After that you can add years up to 120. For example if children are obedient to their parents: "2HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER (which is the first commandment with a promise),3SO THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH YOU, AND THAT YOU MAY LIVE LONG ON THE EARTH.…"

Deuteronomy 5:33
Walk in obedience to all that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.

 

[Chris B]

Even if mankind gave up belief in God altogether, we would still have the same problems. Atheists believe that getting rid of God will make the world better, but it wont.

Miss-statement. Atheists, in varying degree, think that it would make the world that bit better to have fewer people with strong beliefs in a deity (and who act accordingly) when no deity exists.

We'd reduce the problems of inter-religious conflict, and of a preference for fixed dogma about humanity over actual observation of humanity, for a start.

We wouldn't be "getting rid of God" as God never existed. It's the human beliefs about that, now there's the rub.

 

[Chris B]

It teaches you to go on the internet and destroy peoples faith,

How do you stand on other people's faith when it isn't in Jesus and Christianity? You encourage them in it?

 

[Extraneous]

How do you stand on other people's faith when it isn't in Jesus and Christianity? You encourage them in it?

I don't go to their websites and make war with them.

 

[Chris B]

He does extend lives for those who follow His commandments. We are given 70 years or if for reason of strength 80. After that you can add years up to 120. For example if children are obedient to their parents: "2HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER (which is the first commandment with a promise),3SO THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH YOU, AND THAT YOU MAY LIVE LONG ON THE EARTH.…"

So my friend who was cut down by a drunk driver, in his mid twenties, two months after his marriage, must have been a bad Christian?
Easy enough to try and call after the event.

No, I've seen too many instances where this "live long and prosper" simply hasn't happened. Quite the opposite, in fact.

It doesn't ring true.

 

[Chris B]

I don't go to their websites and make war with them.

So you can't say you encourage faith, then...
Even if it happens to be what makes people happy, to use your line of thought?

Discussion is war?
Difference of opinion is war?
And questions get regularly asked of atheists here: that would be silly if there were none.

Yes, this could be made a Christian-only site: many such exist.
But then you'd have to do with only peculiar projected images of atheists which, oddly enough, rarely have anything but the most tenuous connection to real examples.

 

[Extraneous]

So my friend who was cut down by a drunk driver, in his mid twenties, two months after his marriage, must have been a bad Christian?
Easy enough to try and call after the event.

No, I've seen too many instances where this "live long and prosper" simply hasn't happened. Quite the opposite, in fact.

It doesn't ring true.

Live long and prosper is a quote from Star Trek, but i assume that it was just a nice way of referring to the abundant life that Christ promised, which you used. The abundant life is eternal life, its not about living long on this earth. If that were true then none of the early Christians would have been killed for their faith when Rome and Israel persecuted them.