Why does God let terrible things happen?
I had kind of a revelation today... Why does He let awful things happen?
Well how would He stop it?
I am not saying that God isn't powerful enough to stop it, or that He can't, but what would He do to stop it?
Would He kill everyone that was going to do terrible things in their lives?
Would He force someone to have a change of heart?
Would you rather horrible things happen, or a controlling God?
Would you rather a God who loves you through the terrible circumstances, or a God who killed everyone who would ever hurt you?
Wouldn't that mean that all of us would be dead?
I mean at all times, we are going to hurt someone in our lives.
Sin came into the world through man, a man who screwed up.
God could have stopped that from happening.
God could have taken away our free will, we could have been robots living in a perfect world with no pain or suffering.
All pain and suffering was brought into the world by one sin.
Not God.
God allowed it because He wanted to give us the choice of free will.
And with free will came heartache and pain.
Instead of asking, why does God let terrible things happen, maybe we should ask why Adam and Eve let terrible things happen.
If it wasn't Adam and Eve though, someone would have sinned along the road.
Someone along the line would have eaten the apple.
But with that apple all horrible things came into the world.
God allows terrible things to happen because He didn't want robots.
I am sure that you don't want to be a robot either.
I am positive that everyone wants to be able to choose what they want to believe.
So the next person that asks, why does God let terrible things happen, ask them if they want to have free will?
Do you want God to start killing everyone who sins?
Yes, it is what we deserve, but for heaven's sake, no one is perfect enough!
We would all die!
What would God do to stop terrible things?
Take away our free will?
Kill people who were about to hurt others?
Put us in a sterile world were nothing could go wrong ever and no one was free to choose their own path?
I would rather a God who loves me enough to give me the choice to love Him or not.
I would rather a God who gives me the strength to get through the terrible things.
I would rather that God than a dictator that I have no option but to follow.
Well put, but isn't that a bit of a cop out? God gets all the credit for positive things that happen, and none of the blame. If an omniscient, all powerful being really created the universe, including all matter and energy, billions of stars and planets, and then decided to create a self-aware human and then put the only source of temptation in the place where he lived, which would lead to death and destruction and suffering for billions of offspring, that would imply the god was either: A) not too smart, B) sadistic, or C) is a myth conjured by humans to understand their world and codify allegiance to norms of behavior.
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