If it is a game, what are the rules? Is God part of the game?
Why has God Permitted Wickedness?
by hillary_step 44 Replies latest jw friends
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glitter
Anyone who sees suffering and does nothing to help is either wants to help but can't or is evil.
Right, so is God powerless or evil?
If you believe that God made the universe he's certainly not powerless...
And *why* did God make us in the first place? Why did he make it possible to sin? We wouldn't *know* if we didn't have free will would we? At least if there wasn't free will there wouldn't be suffering.
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chappy
Just curious, how would everyone have God handle wickedness and allow free will?
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dsgal
We are pawns in a dispute between God and Satan.Even the Bible says it.
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Farkel
: Just curious, how would everyone have God handle wickedness and allow free will?
Easy. Take wickedness out of our genes. We don't need wickedness in our genes and God was stupid to put it there. Animals don't have wickedness in their genes, you know.
Farkel
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D wiltshire
HS,
I can only guess at why God does what he does, as he has not given a clear answer that is written which we can point to.
Perhaps these problems in life are not so bad, I mean it is a good thing too that we dont live thousands of years under these conditions.
If God is going to give us eternal life, under much better conditions than present, maybe there is something that we can learn while experiencing these problems while sin and suffering are present, maybe something so valuable that it is worth us having to under go this painful experience.
Maybe it is just as Paul said:
2 Corinthians 4:17-18
17 For though the tribulation is momentary and light, it works out for us a glory that is of more and more surpassing weight and is everlasting; 18 while we keep our eyes, not on the things seen, but on the things unseen. For the things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are everlasting.This is what I tend to believe I do feel there is a God and that all the good I see tells me he must be good too, and if he has allowed suffering he must have a good reason. Some things we can only really learn if we experience them first hand, like Jesus did when he came to this earth. These experiences that we will take with us when we go to heaven some good some bad may be things, that as we live forever, we will cherish for eternity, and truly make us better person. I can see God allowing us to suffer for these reasons and Im sure he has even better reasons than that.
Eternity is a very long time no tell what God has in store for us to do during that time and how our experiences now may help us and others in the future.
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AwakenedAndFree
Hi Hillary-Step,
Why God has permitted wickedness is not a debatable issue for me.
1 Corinthians 2:9 : "But just as it is written: " Eye has not seen and ear has not heard, neither have there been conceived in the heart of man the things that God has prepared for those who love him."
Christian Love ,
AwakenedAndFree
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plmkrzy
I just got through watching the science channel.
They say we all came from worms. Flat worms to be more precise.
They were the first creature to have a head and a sense of direction. So according to that everything on earth is cannibalistic.
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Beck_Melbourne
Plum, I've seen one of em worms with a head *did I say that??*
I happen to agree with Random a.k.a. Scarlett...what about the good...I try not to dwell on the yuckie stuff...there's so many nice things to dwell on.
What defines wickedness anyway?? Jehoovah?? I don't trust how he measures wickedness...it was okay for Lot to impregnate his daughter but then another couple ate from just one tree. Bah!
I agree with the son in Farkels dialogue...Dad, you're weird!
Beck
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LDH
Plum said:
They were the first creature to have a head and a sense of direction
Well, that explains how women got here, but we all know men would rather wander for hours than ask for directions. What is the explanation for men?
Lisa
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