What would you do...

[an7222]

...if you were a God for just one day? I would stop sufferings in the world. And you?

 

[Mrs12bfishin]

I would go ahead and call my people home.

 

[momalle1]

I'd visit my children on earth and clear up all the different interpretations of my message.

 

[NothingButTheBlood]

Absolutely nothing. I would see how things worked, listen to prayers but that's it. I would probably mess up the whole world if I started fiddling with stuff.

 

[CSmrw]

...if you were a God for just one day? I would stop sufferings in the world. And you?

I would not do anything. What could a being which is supposed to be perfect in all respects want for, and therefore seek to attain through action?

 

[ChristianCenturion]

...if you were a God for just one day? I would stop sufferings in the world. And you?

The first thing I would do is preemptively pardon myself for all the things I was about to do that would be ungodly.

 

[levi501]

Make my god status extend indeffinitely... and then score with a bunch of hot chicks.

 

[an7222]

Centurion,

Would you watch a baby being raped and do nothing?

 

[momalle1]

Centurion,

Would you watch a baby being raped and do nothing?

God commited us to this world with free will. Technically, since God is omnipresent, that's what he does now. In reality, he would comdemn the rapist to eternal damnation on judgement day.

 

[an7222]

and the sufferings of the baby? What did the baby wrong?

 

[Force_of_Will]

unless the rapist was a christian, then he'd have no problem sending the rapist to heaven

 

[ChristianCenturion]

Centurion,

Would you watch a baby being raped and do nothing?

Asking "me" specifically?
I suppose I'm honored in that you consider me to be up to the task. I don't know if I would agree with that, but I will try.
This looks like a simple question, but I see it as being loaded (purposely or not, I don't know), we will see where it goes from here...


Where would any guilt, shame, wrongness, sin, etc. lay there? With the simple knowing that something happened or with the person committing the act of raping the baby?

That "do nothing" part is also relying on an unqualified context. It hints of neglect, but does not consider all possibilities. In other words, fabricating a similar loaded question concerning a person cutting a child with a sharp instrument would lead us to convict a doctor of a crime while he was operating on a child.
If a person robs a bank and is LATER placed in jail, can someone else say that there really wasn't any justice carried out by the authorities because in the moments BETWEEN the robbery and the conviction/act of punishment, the robber was free for a period of time?

If the question is headed towards presuming to be able to judge God, then one must consider the question with the additional given situations and context that go with "God".

A relatively short, temporal condition compared to eternity.

A mortal and fallen world/state compared to a future new body without pain and degradation, etc.

An omniscient view and purpose compared to our limited view and selfish purpose.

Justice that has punishment for the wicked and forgiveness for those that repent.

And so on...

So to answer your question:
As shocking as it may be to some, there is room in your question for an answer of Yes.

It would be right in that the baby may in the end know comfort, love, and eternal protection from something known (from experience) to be bad.
Good in that the violator may repent and produce good fruit thereafter.
Good in that the violator may receive the punishment appropriate to the crime.
Good in that the child may rise above his/her given circumstances and be forgiving and/or an example to others regarding overcoming one's situation, etc.
Pending perspectives, what is considered and where values are placed, your question can have a yes OR no answer.
It requires omniscience and perfection to answer it correctly and absolutely though. I can only speculate and present options... "judgment" resides with Him.

 

[Miss Shelby]

Centurion,

Would you watch a baby being raped and do nothing?

Why did you direct this to Centurion? It was the poster above him that said he would do nothing.

 

[Miss Shelby]

If I were God for a day I would allow female popes and then I would make myself one.

Michelle

 

[ChristianCenturion]

Why did you direct this to Centurion? It was the poster above him that said he would do nothing.

That's OK.
I think I was able to provide some kind of answer.
I only hope it was a good one and it helped. :o

 

[an7222]

I directed it to centurion because he also said he would do nothing:

The first thing I would do is preemptively pardon myself for all the things I was about to do that would be ungodly.

I read your answer, but if I were God I woud stop the rapist and all sufferings in the world.

 

[ChristianCenturion]

I directed it to centurion because he also said he would do nothing:

The first thing I would do is preemptively pardon myself for all the things I was about to do that would be ungodly.

Please read it again then. It doesn't say that I would do nothing.

I read your answer, but if I were God I woud stop the rapist and all sufferings in the world.

OK, I suggest that you read the end of Revelation then.

 

[Cleany]

...if you were a God for just one day? I would stop sufferings in the world. And you?

i would make it so that you could get your work back when the browser crashes or you accidentally close it in the middle of a long reply to a post.

 

[NothingButTheBlood]

I think some people might be taking the thread too seriously.

 

[momalle1]

and the sufferings of the baby? What did the baby wrong?

In this life, the baby is an unfortunate victim of free will. God never said life would be fair or easy.