Why Do Doesn 't God Fix It?

They may even come to the conclusion that if there is a God, he cannot be good.

Humans have been around for about six million years. Humans have had their ups and their down. We have gained faith in humanity, yet we have lost faith in humanity. Which brings up the question, are humans inherently good or evil. The book Lord Of The Flies and documentary Promises clearly show how humans are inherently good. Humans are inherently good until they are changed because of the environment they are born in and how they are treated.

From looking at the world now, it is ridiculous to say that we are naturally good. However, if one person believes that stealing is evil, another might believe that stealing is good if it's for a good purpose. So it depends on the person’s views. When a newborn is brought into this world you tend to see purity and simplicity in his eyes. For instance if a child executed a man, we cannot judge nor blame the child since the child knows nothing in life yet. In fact for quite a long time, many philosophers, as well as most individuals, have contemplated on the question “ Is human nature good or bad?”

Several interviewees document their journey from a faith in God (or at least a god out there somewhere) to a strong unbelief as a result of 9-11. An understandably impassioned man who lost 30 friends in the terrorist attack describes his anger toward God. He talks about how he can no longer believe in the God who would allow this to happen. He “looks at him now as a barbarian.” Among others, a Catholic priest, an Episcopalian priest, an agnostic photographer, and the wife of a firefighter make similar claims. What they share is the idea that if the God they believed in prior to 9-11 would choose not to prevent the terrorist attacks (the death of their loved one) then he is not worthy of their belief. In essence, if God is not willing to stop evil, then they are not willing to put their faith in him. This method of dealing with evil only serves to blame evil on God, thus reducing God to nothing more than an indifferent, cold-hearted God. As such, there is no hope, no solution to the problem of evil.

I believe that everything happens for a reason and why bad things happen to good people, it just just a way of life, things are always going to happen that can’t be explained. An example, someone’s family member gets diagnosed with cancer, and they ask, “why God,” how could this happen to us and such a wonderful person that has done no harm to anyone or anything in this world? Why did God pick this person to get sick, why couldn’t he help them and make them better? This kind of event may make people question their faith. If this kind of event were to happen to someone close to me, I think I would have to question my faith as well, how can such a horrible thing happen to someone I love so much, why us? In the end I do think that everything happens for a reason and God has a plan for everyone on this earth, he wouldn’t make us go through something that we couldn’t get through and come out stronger in the

In a world of chaos, he who lives, lives by his own laws and values. Who is to say that the death of millions is any worse or better, for that matter, than injuring a cockroach. And in the case of an existing power in the form of God, who is presumed to be all which is good, presiding and ruling an organized universe, why then does evil exist? The prosaic response of “without evil, there is no good” no longer holds any validity in this argument as the admitted goal of good is to reach an existence without evil. So even if a God does exist, I think it is fair, at this point, to say that he is the embodiment of both good and evil. And if humoring those who would answer the previous question with the response that there can be no good

Many people turn to God when there is something good is going on with their lives and it is customary to give thanks to God for that specific good thing that they are living through, but why do people turn their backs on him when the tables turn. A good example is the Holocaust against the jews, it is said that they are the people of God, yet many turned their backs on him when their entire race was under extreme genocide.

Most "bad" things which happen do so because God gives a radical freedom to God's people; we are free people, not puppets on a string. But God does not cause "bad" things to happen. God loves us and grieves with us in our pain when "bad things" happen.

Quote, “And, in spite of myself, a prayer rose in my heart, to that God in whom i no longer believed.” (Wiesel 97) He felt an urge to pray to a God that he doesn't even believe in anymore. In the world, many things happen for people struggle with religion. Shootings are a big issue; innocent children have been killed, some believe that God let this happen, but some people rely on God even more. When people hear about murders they wonder (spiritually) where God is or why he would let this happen. This has not happened to me but I know someone that has. For example, a couple looked up to god, worshipped him and loved him as much as Elie did. The couple had a son and he was very young, instead of taking him to the hospital they relied on god to heal him. They wondered why god hadn’t healed him and next thing you know he dies. The couple no longer believed in god or go to church after their son’s death. They question on why god let this

By answering the timeless question, “Are humans inherently good or evil?”, one can then gain an even greater understanding of the thing that is us. Therefore, history and society can prove that the answer is in fact that humans are inherently evil. Now, that was all without using religion, but religion provides an excellent view and explanation into the world of humanity. Presuming that the statement above is axiomatic, then religion has an issue that science and secularism do not have to deal with. The problem is why would an all-powerful God allow his creation to suffer under the disease known as sin. Even if we believe that humanity brought a sinful nature onto itself, why would God place the ability to sin into our capability? That is

In the poem “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards, the question is not directly answered by Edwards, but I think Edwards think that most people are sinners and do not think people are basically good, which makes the answer to the question to be that people are not basically good. Edwards states that God holds you over a pit of fire or “Hell” as if you held an insect over a fire. Edwards states that “he (God) looks upon you as worthy of nothing else” (Edwards 127). Edwards says all people have offended God making him angry.

As a natural law thinker, I am inclined to believe that because God created me, as such, I am inherently good. Everything God created is inherently good. According to Thomas Aquinas, because God's creation is ordered by reason, the order of nature is reasonable and directed toward the common good of the whole creation. (p. 124). God, as the author of the creation, has the authority to create laws directing our actions toward the common good. God made them known to us in various ways so that we may use our own judgment in following them. As I a was created by God, in his image, I had received from him the knowledge of what is right and what is wrong. That knowledge was incarnate into my existence so that I might follow it to make choices

Currently, in the United States, many people are struggling with loyalty to God. Just within the last week or so, Hurricane Harvey destroyed the south east and Hurricane Irma is about to make land fall on the Atlantic coast. These storms have left countless people asking why. In an article about forgiveness in times of disasters and crisis Worthington, Griffin, Toussaint, Nonterah, and Utsey wrote on Hurricane Katerina “many people pulled together to promote recovery, those who were caught up in this tragedy experienced substantial hatred, unforgiveness, and blame…Thus, some people adopt causal attributions that blame individuals, communities, governments, nature, or even God” (2016). Worthington, Griffin, Toussaint, Nonterah, and Utsey go

William Rowe defines gratuitous evil as an instance of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse.(Rowe 335) In a world with so much evil it raises the questions If God is all powerful, all knowing and all good, how can he allow bad things to happen to good people? Can God even exist in a world with so such gratuitous evil? These are questions that has afflicted humanity for a very long time and has been the question to engross theologians for centuries. The existence of evil has been the most influential and powerful reason to disprove the existence of God. It is believed among many theist that God is the creator and caretaker

According to Kant God created mankind for good; not necessarily that man is good. “He is created for good and the original predisposition in man is good; not that, thereby, he is already actually good” (Kant 40). The previous statement could be taken in many ways. But perhaps what Kant is saying here is that man is to become good to the best of man’s ability in this life. God’s plan is for man to pursue good.