Why worship a God that does not help!

Witness 007

So God let 10 million people die in world war 2 but was too busy to help....what kind of diety does this! If I was God I would have done something

Very true, I recently visited Auschwitz and birkenau, where more than 1.1 million men women and children were exterminated just because they were Jewish, gay, gypsies and even some jws and no god came to their assistance it was other humans who came to their assistance.

Anony Mous

The counter case to that is that if God intervened at any point things go awry, would we really have free will? People did intervene, some say that is God/good in the people.
Specifically about Nazism and most of the 20th century atrocities, that all sprung out from the writings of Marx, even though, to our knowledge, Marx himself did nothing ‘wrong’, God would have had to prevent Marx but also similar writings of his day, the entire area of 18th and 19th century philosophy would’ve looked much different. And that built upon itself from a rejection of prior ideas and you can keep going, everything is chained to ‘the beginning’ - so where should’ve God have intervened?

Touchofgrey

If you believe that the bible is true, god did intervene in human history, the flood story because man was wicked, the exodus story freeing his people from oppression of the Egyptians, and many other times to help his chosen people.

Then for some reason he stopped or these events are myths and fables made up by humans to make their god seem to be real .

nowwhat?

But God is very good at hearing and listening!

Sanchy

Only two explanations: Either God is plain awful or there's just no one there.

AnnaNana

He's helped me.

He's helped a lot of people.

Sometimes it's a matter of perspective.

All the people who have died, they're not suffering anymore. They are asleep. It's nice to be able to sleep soundly.

Sure, there are difficult times, but they don't last forever. They are only for so long, and then they end.

Look around you. The sun is higher than the earth. The light is greater than the darkness. The storms will end.

There are issues and things that we don't understand all the details about. But one thing we can be completely confident on is that God is Good and that He Will Fix Things.

He is always worthy of worship. When we don't know what else to do in life, we can always praise Him.

We can praise Him for the sunshine and the air, the ability to see and speak and sing, the beautiful colors of the sunset and the glory of the sunrise. Each bite of food, the ability to digest it, the way we can walk and dance and run and enjoy relations with others.

Even if we only lived one brief day and then died, it would be right to praise Him. He doesn't owe us anything. We owe Him everything.

Praise Jehovah. I will praise Jehovah. He Causes to Become, even if the whole organization that falsely claims to represent Him tells falsehoods about him, even if the other religious organizations misrepresent Him, He doesn't change. He is worthy of praise and worship.

KalebOutWest

Why did God leave his people, the Hebrews, in slavery and bondage to the Egyptians for so long before sending them a Deliverer? Did God not hear the cries and see the suffering of his own children? Or did not God have a purpose?

Is God a genie that serves your every whim and desire or do you serve God? Are your wants and wishes supposed to be granted by God like a genie? If you want a parking space, so to speak, should God not grant it to you? And if you do not get it, does this mean God doesn't listen to your prayers or worse, does not exist?

A genie doesn't know what you are thinking unless you tell it your thoughts because it serves you. You cannot know the greater purposes of God because you serve your Creator. God is not here to grant your wishes, end the problems we cause for ourselves, change things God has set in motion just because we would rather have it different or we cannot see our place in the grand design. God is not a genie.

You don't have to believe or care or like it. This is life. If you see a problem and have the ability to fix things, fix them. That is why we are here. Instead of pointing at or blaming God or expecting God, what about you? When was the last time you changed things? Keep changing things. There may not be a life after death, so concentrate on fixing life before death for everyone.

AnnaNana

God is not a "genie". That's why we wait.

I don't blame God. I trust Him. He said He's coming back to fix things at His appointed time. Even if I don't know when that time is, I will still wait for Him.

I work on changing what I can in the realm within my dominion, but I am not God. I am not a "God-spark." I am one of God's kids, just like you are.

There is a life after death. Death is temporary. The One who created life certainly is able to make life come up again.

I agree with you that God is not here to "grant wishes." He was here before we were here, and He knows that sometimes in our short-sightedness what we might "wish" isn't always a good idea. He has enough self-control and respect for us to recognize when to hold back from granting a request.

"You don't have to believe or care or like it. This is life."

God did rescue His people from bondage in Egypt. And He will rescue us too.

He sees you.

AnnaNana

@KalebOutWest - if I love you, I know He loves you even more.

He's known you since before you were born.

He wants you to live for all eternity.

The short time we suffer right now - it's like when a mom goes through labor pains for the purpose of bringing forth a beloved child - the pain is all forgotten when she holds the dear child in her arms.

You did not go through the pain for nothing. And you were not alone during that time.

Why worship a God that does not help!

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