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Subject: If God is love... Why?
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jayc08 26.02.12 - 07:56am
If God is love, why does he permit wickedness?GOD does permit wickedness, and millions on earth willfully make a practice of it. For instance, they declare wars, drop bombs on children, scorch the earth, and cause famines. Millions smoke and get lung cancer, practice adultery and get sexually transmitted diseases, use alcohol to excess and get cirrhosis of the liver, and so on. Such people do not truly want all wickedness stopped. They only want the penalties for it eliminated. When they reap wh * +
ladibud 26.02.12 - 07:57am
free will.... God does not reign on earth. * +
jayc08 26.02.12 - 08:02am
When they reap what they have sown, they cry out, Why me? And they blame God, as Proverbs 19:3 says: A man's own folly wrecks his life, andthen he bears a grudge against the L ORD . ( The New English Bible ) And if God stopped their evildoing, they would protest their loss of freedom to do it! * +
jayc08 26.02.12 - 08:03am
Jehovah's main reason for permitting evil isto answer Satan's challenge. Satan the Devilsaid that God could not put men on earth who would be true to Him under test. ( Job 1:6-12 ; 2:1-10 ) Jehovah allows Satan to remain to have opportunity to prove his challenge. ( Exodus 9:16 ) Satan continues tobring woes now, to turn men against God, as he tries to prove his challenge. ( Revelation 12:12 ) * +
jayc08 26.02.12 - 08:04am
) However, Job kept integrity. So did Jesus. True Christians do now. Job 27:5 ; 31:6 ; Matthew 4:1-11 ; 1 Peter 1:6, 7 * +
oregirl 4.03.12 - 09:31am
God is a God of love but he is also a God of judgement. He gave us free will. so if we decide not to follow him and l*st after the flesh and live according to the world then we r going to pay the price * +
purest1 4.03.12 - 10:06am
The freewill argument only holds for suffering caused by human action. Not so when you speak of most natural disasters like tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes etc. These are raw untamed forces of nature, not human freewill action. Why are they permitted? Any ideas? * +
mab21 4.03.12 - 11:07am
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