@contenchess saidJehovah God once asked this question to humans: God:
...and I absolutely hate the MotherF***er...
Born into poverty with alcoholic parents which caused a shyt life which caused many bad decisions...
Enough about me...What about them?
The kids born to die as kids.
The kids born with diseases.
What about natural disasters?
I saw a comedy western once and a girl said "what is Parkinson's?"
The reply was..."j ...[text shortened]... t another way for God to show us he loves us"
So where is this God Power?
Not on this planet.
“Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.”—Habakkuk 1:3, 4, New International Version.
Habakkuk asked this of Jehovah: Habakkuk 1:13:
13 Your eyes are too pure to look on what is evil,
And you cannot tolerate wickedness.
Why, then, do you tolerate the treacherous
and keep silent when a wicked man swallows up someone more righteous than he is?
So as long as man has existed on this planet, there has been wickedness. And it's getting worse daily as you have explained very clearly with your life. Most of mankind has seen even worse then many of us today. Just watch the daily news.
So where do we go from here? If God is going to help us.....when? Why is it taking so long?
Please look over this. Sorry for the link but it would take me a long time to type this in. Thanks...
https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/Happiness-How-to-Find-It/Wickedness-Why-Does-God-Permit-It/
@galveston75 saidPsalm 73
Jehovah God once asked this question to humans: God:
“Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.”—Habakkuk 1:3, 4, New International Version.
...[text shortened]...
https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/Happiness-How-to-Find-It/Wickedness-Why-Does-God-Permit-It/
@chaney3 removed their quoted postIf, as you believe and agreed with [page 1], that the God figure you think exists has not undertaken to prevent "horrible things" from happening [to Contentchess, for example], then complaining that it isn't doing what you think it should - and isn't doing what it hasn't undertaken to do - is little more than a theological strawman.
Declaring oneself to be a theist, specifically a Christian, and then lamenting what that God figure hasn't done, could have done, should have done, etc. etc. seems to me to be taking the idea of a 'personal God' to an interesting extreme, especially when one insists on slapping the label "Christian" onto it.
@chaney3 removed their quoted postYour quibble has inadvertently caused you to sidestep the post you were purportedly replying to. Here it is again:
If, as you believe and agreed with [page 1], that the God figure you think exists has not undertaken to prevent "horrible things" from happening [to Contentchess, for example], then complaining that it isn't doing what you think it should - and isn't doing what it hasn't undertaken to do - is little more than a theological strawman.
Can we agree on this, at least?
@chaney3 removed their quoted postNot sure why you're harping on this.
Because it relates to the topic.
Complaining that a God figure isn't doing what you think it should - when that God figure hasn't undertaken to do what you think it should - is a kind of strawman.
Contentchess apparently does not believe in the Christian God and if you are preoccupied with what that God figure hasn't done, could have done, should have done and so on, then maybe you do not believe in the Christian God either. Just a pertinent thought, that's all.
@chaney3 removed their quoted postYou said: "God could have intervened and produced a much better outcome, but He didn't". [<<< you are complaining about the "outcome" here, are you not?]. And "I don't know if anyone on here will be able to explain 'why' such horrible things take place, if God supposedly loves us." [<<< if this is not a complaint about "God's love", what is it?].