by brandnew 16 Replies latest jw friends
Wouldnt he, with all his "god power" n stuff.....be able to snap his "god fingers", and like kill the demon that he created?
Who creates a monster, that they cant control?
I would have totally invented an "off" switch on all disobedient ones. Just sayin.....n stuff☺
Gods casino...bet on Jobs faithfulness
40 to 1 bar
Yes, I certainly wouldn't play 'life'poker with the so-called evil one. If you were omniscient you would have nothing to prove. God has all these anthropomorphic qualities like jealousy and a gambling habit.
I know the standard JW answer has to do with free will. Sure, the demons will eventually be destroyed, but only once it has been proven beyond all doubt that living Jehovah's way is the best way, otherwise men are only serving out of fear of God destroying them.
But that doesn't answer my concern. INNOCENT CHILDREN by the tens of thousands (perhaps more than 100 thousand) torn away from their parents in a tsunami in 2004 and being put through grave suffering and painful deaths in an earthquake in Haiti in 2010. If God is allowing suffering to teach us a lesson, isn't the price too high? Those children don't learn anything about God's love and the parents that lose them are not learning God's love. There is no excuse for not "snapping his fingers" and simply making that tsunami not exist or that earthquake not so severe. We could add the Japanese tsunami and past starvations in Ethiopia and endless events.
There are believers that can come up with answers for my concern and say that God didn't do it, but allowed it to demonstrate mankind's need of God. They say that God brings good things out of tragedy. God allows it so that humans can develop courage, devotion, loyalty, self-sacrifice, kindness, generosity, hope, trust. I don't accept that. The price is too high. If it weren't for children, I could almost let it be. But there you have it.
And satan has all the aces.
Plus, Satan evidently(TM) has a much better PR staff considering that only 1/10th of 1% of the citizens of the world sign on with Jehovah's support group and all the rest are part of Satan's "Gog-group".
Jehovah should hire the PR folks that Anheuser-Busch/InBev uses. AB/InBev gets 50% of the marketplace.
Doc
OTWO.......dude.....i hear you loud and clear.....
If i had the power to stop ONE child from drowning.....i would.
Actually i would give my own life for a childs.
If you believe the Bible , all humans young and old have suffered indignities,sickness ,disease & ,death ,since Adam & Eve sinned.
During that same time period , Satan has had apparently his good health and life to this day ,enjoying the freedom to roam the heavens and earth causing more havoc , , and also could approach Jehovah`s Throne whenever he felt like it and talk to him face to face { Job} ( up until 1914 that is ) And he was the instigator of Adam & Eve`s sin.
Seems to me humans got the dirty/short end of the stick.
If you believe the bible that is.
smiddy
As our member designs has stated (I am paraphrasing here)... "And then there's the issue of manna. If he can do it once he can do it multiple times but does not." This reminds me of the Epicurus quote:
