Natural Disasters

[locusts]

Natural Disasters—Evidence That God Is Cruel?

WHAT YOU MAY HEAR: “God rules the world ?, so he causes natural disasters; therefore, he must be cruel.” What does the Bible say??????

For those who believe there is a God..

[Answerprancer]

Yeah? Well look on the bright side, we've got Nectar cards :-)

[hereIam]

The clue is in the heading - they are NATURAL !

[naomi24]

The bible says a lot of things about the nature of God, and much of it - to a rational mind - doesn't portray him favourably but rather as a psychopathic monster.

[Old_Geezer]

Do you say "cruel" because it causes them, in which case one needs evidence, or "cruel" because it doesn't save everyone from things that inevitably go "wrong" in their life, which is clearly unworkable ?

Why should anyone care what a bible says ?

[OldBather]

As I don't (and never have)believed in either God,or the Bible,it doesn't worry me.

[mikey4444]

Millions of people die in natural disasters every year, through no fault of their own, so if this "God" really does exist, he must be a very cruel and judgemental god indeed.

So why would anybody believe in him ?

[Hopkirk]

If God is infallible, then these are decisions he has made. To slaughter innocent people. What a nasty piece of work.

Mind you,as he doesn't exist, this is all hypothetical.

[locusts]

Hopkirk
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If God is infallible, then these are decisions he has made. To slaughter innocent people. What a nasty piece of work.

Mind you,as he doesn't exist, this is all hypothetical.


naomi

The bible says a lot of things about the nature of God, and much of it – to a rational mind – doesn't portray him favourably but rather as a psychopathic monster.

When a person reject the God of the Bible he often chooses to the label him as a moral monster .non-believers have been known to excuse God of being hypocritical self-image judgemental hateful and even though most says a monster part of the problem with responding to this kind of claim is that they require extensive answers it takes only seconds to pass certain questions but quite some time to give a reasonable answer this single question is God a moral monster is

atheism and the problem.
god demands worshipped he punishes those to disagree. .and he even condemns ,
and he even punishes those insuilt hem. and according to the common line of complaints,, a true good :god would let people to just as they pleased with out necessity of obey ihis rule and he certainly would not care how to they think or speak of him.

it is hilarious (Inquisitorial)that you call the create their monster when you forget what humans can do..these humans in the Old Testament was monster..to their own children casting them into the fire and to an ideal which could not speak or talk and Calling them God and you call God of monster.
Jeremiah 7 31 Authorized (King James)
Version (AKA)Douglas-Home 1899 American Edition (DRAT)
Genesis 6. .5..6

[naomi24]

Locusts, //it is hilarious (Inquisitorial)that you call the create their monster when you forget what humans can do//

But humans are fallible .... God, allegedly, is infallible .... nevertheless he (again allegedly) not only imposed terrible punishment for petty ‘crimes’ (the man who was condemned to death for collecting firewood on the Sabbath springs to mind) but he saw fit to slaughter millions – many of them for the purpose of eradicating his own mistake. If that God happened to be a human being and subject to civilised law, in the interests of public safety, he would be locked up in a secure unit indefinitely.

[mikey4444]

Locust....I can smell religious tracts !

But are you saying that hilarious and Inquisitorial mean the same thing ?

[Jackdaw33]

Has Goodlife become Locusts?

[naomi24]

Mikey, English is not Locust's first language. Some of what he posts appears to come from references in papers he is using for his research - and that's fine. He does well in making himself understood.

[naomi24]

Jackdaw, no. Locusts has been around for quite some time. He isn't Goodlife.

[DTCwordfan]

naomi, Goodlife often didn't write in English, more a cross-lingo of Konica and Xerox.

[naomi24]

^ Haha! Indeed!

[wildwood]

It is allegedly written, that an omnipotent God created everything in the universe. So..... it stands to reason to assume that any good or evil evil has been implanted by that God.

It is worrying is that the sensible people who recognised this religious cs@p for what it is have been put to death in the most gruesome ways for failing to follow the brainwashed brigade.

[mikey4444]

Wildwood....rubbish....nothing "stands to reason"

By the way, can anyone help with :::::

"It is worrying is that the sensible people who recognised this religious cs@p for what it is have been put to death in the most gruesome ways for failing to follow the brainwashed brigade"

I am having extreme difficulty in understand a word of that !

[wildwood]

Mikey4444

I would like to sincerely apologise for making a typing error, please do excuse me. English is not my first language.

The cs@p should have been ***.

[wildwood]

faeces

[naomi24]

wildwood, //It is allegedly written, that an omnipotent God created everything in the universe. So..... it stands to reason to assume that any good or evil evil has been implanted by that God. //

Absolutely right. For those who believe that God is the creator of everything in the universe, rationally it should stand to reason that He created both good and evil.

See, I understood what you said. ;o)