Why Does God Not Solve World Hunger?

Question.Everything · Sep 9, 2011

Recent numbers put 750,000 people at risk for death due to famine in Somalia alone. Famine is a perpetual and inherited problem, children are born into a world with no food, either die or grow up in the poor world and have children that will either die from starvation or repeat the cycle of their parents.

In all of God's infinite love, wisdom, and willingness to act in the world to make it better (as stories in the Bible tell us), why does he not snap his fingers and create a food source for these innocent starving children? For instance he could make the land fertile and blossom with fruit trees.

If you have the power to do anything, I see no just reason to watch millions of your creation die a slow and painful death over something that is 100% out of their control. Why doesn't God help us?

If you had the power to snap your fingers and feed the millions of suffering/starving people all over the world, would you?

Steve Petersen · Sep 9, 2011

Question.Everything said:
Recent numbers put 750,000 people at risk for death due to famine in Somalia alone. Famine is a perpetual and inherited problem, children are born into a world with no food, either die or grow up in the poor world and have children that will either die from starvation or repeat the cycle of their parents.

In all of God's infinite love, wisdom, and willingness to act in the world to make it better (as stories in the Bible tell us), why does he not snap his fingers and create a food source for these innocent starving children? For instance he could make the land fertile and blossom with fruit trees.

If you have the power to do anything, I see no just reason to watch millions of your creation die a slow and painful death over something that is 100% out of their control. Why doesn't God help us?

If you had the power to snap your fingers and feed the millions of suffering/starving people all over the world, would you?

You have some power. You do something about it.

Question.Everything · Sep 9, 2011

Steve Petersen said:
You have some power. You do something about it.

I sponsor children in Peru (through Compassion International) and try to donate when I can.

This thread isn't about me.

Brenda Morgan · Sep 9, 2011

Steve Petersen said:
You have some power. You do something about it.

The man asked about God solving the hunger problem and you tell him to fix it.
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If any one of us had the resources of God we would fix the problem of hunger. Hunger is terrible. See what it is like if tonight you go to bed without your evening snack.

I think it's a valid question.....Why does God permit people to die of starvation? Especially since God is love. Doesn't God love these starving people?

When you go to bed hungry tonight see if the Holy Spirit will whisper in your ear the answer why God permits world hunger. Then tell us.

drich0150 · Sep 9, 2011

Question.Everything said:
Recent numbers put 750,000 people at risk for death due to famine in Somalia alone. Famine is a perpetual and inherited problem, children are born into a world with no food, either die or grow up in the poor world and have children that will either die from starvation or repeat the cycle of their parents.

In all of God's infinite love, wisdom, and willingness to act in the world to make it better (as stories in the Bible tell us), why does he not snap his fingers and create a food source for these innocent starving children? For instance he could make the land fertile and blossom with fruit trees.

If you have the power to do anything, I see no just reason to watch millions of your creation die a slow and painful death over something that is 100% out of their control. Why doesn't God help us?

If you had the power to snap your fingers and feed the millions of suffering/starving people all over the world, would you?

He has. We do not live in a time of world wide famine. Meaning there are places in this world that over produce food. (You live in one.) So the question is why haven't we implemented God's plan to end world hunger? what have you done?

If you had the power to lift your and help feed millions of suffering/starving people all over the world, why wouldn't you?
especially when you are judging God against a measure you yourself have fallen short against?

Remember when "Questioning everything" Start with yourself.

GrayAngel · Sep 9, 2011

I would say that God allows this kind of thing to happen to give the rest of us a mission to fulfill. We have the power to help these people, though no one of us can remove the problem on our own.

One of the most often repeated concerns for Christian behavior in the New Testament was their charity to the poor. Yes, God could snap His fingers and solve all the world's problems, but the point of life on Earth is not for the enjoyment of it, but it's for transformation. The poor and needy are fertile grounds for converts, and seeing our acts of kindness towards them, they are much more easily brought into salvation than, say, a rich billionaire who has everything he could ever want.

drich0150 said:
He has. We do not live in a time of world wide famine. Meaning there are places in this world that over produce food. (You live in one.) So the question is why haven't we implemented God's plan to end world hunger? what have you done?

If you had the power to lift your and help feed millions of suffering/starving people all over the world, why wouldn't you?
especially when you are judging God against a measure you yourself have fallen short against?

Remember when "Questioning everything" Start with yourself.

Brother, this may be a more valid argument if the OP hadn't already stated He's doing his part. Yes, he could do more, but so could all of us. But we can't all be lifetime missionaries, planting a million wells for clean water and providing masses with all the food they could ever eat. Some of us have enough trouble just trying to make ends meet ourselves.

drich0150 · Sep 9, 2011

GrayAngel said:
I would say that God allows this kind of thing to happen to give the rest of us a mission to fulfill. We have the power to help these people, though no one of us can remove the problem on our own.

One of the most often repeated concerns for Christian behavior in the New Testament was their charity to the poor. Yes, God could snap His fingers and solve all the world's problems, but the point of life on Earth is not for the enjoyment of it, but it's for transformation. The poor and needy are fertile grounds for converts, and seeing our acts of kindness towards them, they are much more easily brought into salvation than, say, a rich billionaire who has everything he could ever want.

Brother, this may be a more valid argument if the OP hadn't already stated He's doing his part. Yes, he could do more, but so could all of us. But we can't all be lifetime missionaries, planting a million wells for clean water and providing masses with all the food they could ever eat. Some of us have enough trouble just trying to make ends meet ourselves.

Sponsoring anything for about "what a cup of coffee costs a day", is NOT implementing God's plan.

We are to Love our neighbors as our ourselves. Does the "OP's efforts to feed those in whom He has concern for, match his own efforts to feed himself? Does any of our efforts, match our own efforts to do for ourselves?

Amber the Duskbringer · Sep 9, 2011

How can one even know the money they send goes to feed the poor rather than line the pockets of the rich.

Brenda Morgan · Sep 9, 2011

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I thought your question was a good question. I have always been disturbed by the fact that God allows so many inhumane events to continue. I would like to see someone provide an answer.

So why does God permit world hunger? There have been a couple of times when I have gone to bed hungry and it's terrible. I can imagine what it's like to be be hungry for days and days. Really terrible!

Steve Petersen · Sep 9, 2011

Question.Everything said:
I sponsor children in Peru (through Compassion International, and I tell my children that I pray for them) and try to donate when I can.

This thread isn't about me.

You are made in God's image.

Brenda Morgan · Sep 9, 2011

So far the responders on his thread appear to want to let God "off the hook." and put the responsibility for feeding the world on people.
I disagree!

I don't have a farm to grow food, a factory to package food, and the resources to deliver the food to the hungry. I get by financially, but the money I donate falls very short of solving the problem of hunger. But God has unlimited resources. Why doesn't he do something?
But why are Christians afraid to put the responsibility for world hunger on God? Does God want you to be timid?

Brenda Morgan · Sep 9, 2011

Steve Petersen said:
You are made in God's image.

God fed thousands with a couple of fish and loaves. So why does he permit millions to go hungry in today's world?

Question.Everything · Sep 9, 2011

drich0150 said:
He has.

He has what?

We do not live in a time of world wide famine.

Nor did I say that. We live in a time where millions (and over time, hundreds of millions) of people die for a pointless cause.

Meaning there are places in this world that over produce food. (You live in one.) So the question is why haven't we implemented God's plan to end world hunger? what have you done?

Why does God need a "plan" to end world hunger? He can do it in a millisecond. And since you seem to know is plan; what is it?

especially when you are judging God against a measure you yourself have fallen short against?

I don't think I have. While I'm not nearly as powerful as God claims to be, I've used my power (money) to help where I can.

Remember when "Questioning everything" Start with yourself.

Remember to address the question I posed in my original post, not posts I've already answered to (see my first reply).

Question.Everything · Sep 9, 2011

GrayAngel said:
I would say that God allows this kind of thing to happen to give the rest of us a mission to fulfill. We have the power to help these people, though no one of us can remove the problem on our own.

No, we don't have the power to solve the hunger problems of millions of people worldwide. What is your solution?

The poor and needy are fertile grounds for converts, and seeing our acts of kindness towards them, they are much more easily brought into salvation than, say, a rich billionaire who has everything he could ever want.

So...make more starving/poor people because they're more likely to convert to Christianity? Oh My God that is a crude and evil stance.

Yes, he could do more

Then he is not perfect.

Question.Everything · Sep 9, 2011

I thought your question was a good question. I have always been disturbed by the fact that God allows so many inhumane events to continue. I would like to see someone provide an answer.

So why does God permit world hunger? There have been a couple of times when I have gone to bed hungry and it's terrible. I can imagine what it's like to be be hungry for days and days. Really terrible!

I personally think you should always be a defender of your own faith, no matter what it is. I have a defense for any question you ask of me (as a seeker of truth). Can you defend your own faith? If not, I'd ask why you have faith in the first place (if it cannot be defended)?

I know atheists/"seekers" can come off as pushy/arrogant/offensive, but I truly don't mean to be that way. I'm more of a REALIST than an atheist, I experience everything I can in the world around me and I make judgments based upon that observation. If an all powerful and loving God exists then so be it...what would he act like? Certainly nothing like I would imagine it to be (which doesn't match up with being created in God's image).

Question.Everything · Sep 9, 2011

Steve Petersen said:
You are made in God's image.

And you continue to dodge the questions I originally asked.

meinabox · Sep 9, 2011

God doesn't solve world hunger because he doesn't choose to, specifically, but He died on the cross for all of our sins...that's an all-encompassing solution; There will be no hunger in heaven.

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Dark_Lite · Sep 10, 2011

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Question.Everything · Sep 10, 2011

Thanks for reopening the thread (and I didn't mean to bypass any filter). Another member posted a reply to the 2nd thread, so I'll post my response here.

Myshkin99 said:
He may have perfectly valid reasons that are unknown to us, or he may do things that make absolutely no sense to us humans.

Right now I am a seeker of God. If he truly wants me to find him, why would he do cruel things (allowing starving children to die) and have reasons that a) don't make sense and b) he doesn't share?

I'm not seeing how this matches up with a loving God, but I do see how it matches up with the idea that there is no God.

It's not our job to like God. We are to obey Him. And that's scripture!

Scripture is that we are created in God's image. If we truly could save all the starving children with the snap of a finger, we would. This doesn't match up with the same scenario and God is in our shoes. We seem to be very different from God, not the same.

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