God Is Good

[ShallowQueen]

God is not good, from what I can see he's a sadist. Please help me to understand how God can kill children en masse ?

[mibn2cweus]

Those who believe everything must happen for a reason are made no less vulnerable to that which is a consequence of a lack thereof.

[sandyRoe]

As flies to wanton boys, we are to the Gods. They kill us for their sport.
Where did you hear that God is good?

[chaptazbru]

If you believe in God, I daresay you believe in the devil also. Surely such things are the work of the devil, not God?

I don't believe in either.

[mibn2cweus]

Worship of God is the ultimate expression of the edict, "Love thy enemy."

[goodlife]

True it was the oral tradition of the Jews that held that ‘hating an enemy’ was the right thing to do. Jesus, however, said we must love our enemy, not just our friend. This is difficult but not impossible. Loving an enemy does not mean liking all his ways or his deeds. The Greek word found in Matthew’s account is derived from a·ga′pe, which describes a love that acts in harmony with principle. The person who manifests a·ga′pe, principled love, does good even to an enemy who hates and mistreats him. Why? Because it is the way to imitate Christ, and it is the way to conquer hatred. One Greek scholar noted: “[A·ga′pe] enables us to conquer our natural tendency to anger and to bitterness.” But will this work in today’s hate-filled world?

[naomi24]

Goodlife, do you love the maniac who murdered those children?

[joko]

if you knew a friend who made so many ridiculous and very convenient excuses for their behaviour, and made such ludicrous claims, you would ignore or not be friends very long.

why are people so happy to just believe any excuse no matter how nonsensical, irrational and barmy?

[naomi24]

Pass.

[joko]

got you stumped too 'eh naomi?

well im not surprised - in a few 100 years we will look back at religion and laugh at ourselves for being such idiots - the way we laugh at people who thought the earth was flat, who thought the sun went out every night in a lake.

[birdie1971]

Goodlife -

I find it astonishing that you're using a thread about the murder of children to preach about the goodness of your (Jehovah’s Witnesses) god. Not once have you felt the compulsion to use your own words nor have you bothered to write anything original about what an appalling tragedy this massacre of the innocents really is. Instead, you simply copy and paste chunks of other people's musing on god and attempt to pass it off as your own work – yet again.

http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-teach/why-does-god-allow-suffering/

You are truly shameless.

[jomifl]

Perhaps the Jewish word for 'love' had alternative meanings just as the English slang word for 'copulate' does.

[goodlife]

Birdie@ Nice to see you looked at the site. I did not take it from there although it seems very similar.
But when you quote scriptures it will be. Rather than blame God why don't you look at what he is going
to do to rid the earth of such acts. To God time is not as we see it. His thoughts are higher than mans
and whatever he says he is going to do he will do. Man is impatient and we want things now. When God
removes the wickedness it will be once and for all time. Incidents such as occurred in America last week
will be unheard of. Weapons will no longer exist. All those who lost their life will have a hope of an resurrection.
You may scoff and ridicule, but regardless of your attitude, there may still be hope for you yet.
Naomi
//Goodlife, do you love the maniac who murdered those children? //

Of course not. I deplore such actions. But as I said to Birdie, I look forward to the time when God
steps in and eradicates such actions. All those children, and the many in other incidents, will have a hope
of a resurrection. It is this hope that is part of my faith. And one reason why God has allowed so much
time is to prove that mankind cannot put an end to such actions as it states in Jeremiah 10 v 23,

[beso]

While people keep thinking the world is guided by supernatural beings and religion is the answer to problems we won't see much progress.

[beso]

The Bible tells us how much God loves to hurt children. He tells that He smashes children's heads together and enjoys watching. He instructs the Hebrews to slaughter every man woman and child in over thirty tribes. He instructs to cut the unborn babies from the wombs and kill them in from of their dying mother.

This is the nature of the God that religion tells us to worship.

Only sick people subscribe to the Abrahamic faiths.

[Mick-Talbot]

Of course not. I deplore such actions. But as I said to Birdie, I look forward to the time when God
steps in and eradicates such actions.



Bloody hell, he's a lazy sod then.......how long has he had to eradicates such actions?

[beso]

We have been waiting nearly 2000 years for the return of Jesus when God is going to stop all the wicked things happening. It was supposed to happen "soon", even back then.

How long are we too wait?

And why does God wait?

Wake up. No God is coming to fix anything.

Religion is nothing more than a cargo cult perpetrated by the ignorant.

[beso]

The belief in a god coming to massacre everyone who does not subscribe to the "one true faith" is by far the greatest impediment to dealing with the real problems on this plant.

Indeed, the ignorance and arrogance of religion is the greatest problem we face.

[goodlife]

Well the privileges of telling others the truths of God’s Word as Jesus did, you will have joy and be able to wait patiently.

[naomi24]

Goodlife, //And one reason why God has allowed so much
time is to prove that mankind cannot put an end to such actions //

How do you know what his reasons are?

[goodlife]

God has patiently allowed people thousands of years to try many times over all the kinds of governments they could think of. Not one has brought permanent blessing to its subjects. These have been starved, impoverished, oppressed, victimized by religious, racial, national and economic prejudices, heavily taxed to support corrupt governments, and have been diseased, crippled and killed by centuries of senseless wars waged by greedy and power-mad rulers.

No honest person can contend that given more time men could have established a righteous government. Over and over again it has been demonstrated that ‘it is not in man that walks to direct his steps.’ (Jeremiah 10:23) Also, repeatedly proved is the fact that no human rulers were in reality gods able to predict the future, even of the governments they controlled.