Ok, I'm just curious to discuss this in terms of religion. So, if Hitler is pure evil, it would make sense for a greater entity to put a stop to it, right? So, why was Hitler so lucky as to survive all 15 assassination attempts? So that he can eventually put a gun to his head and kill himself? Please share your thoughts.
P.S. I am just discussing this as openly as possible. Please do not feel offended in any way.
God lets man make his own decisions. He lets history roll along.
shareGod is all-loving and all-powerful. And yet he allows terrible things to happen.
At least in the case of men doing evil, one could make the argument that God gave us free will. (Though some scientists believe that free will is an illusion, we'll assume it exists for the sake of argument). But even this argument falls short. In his all-powerful mind, he should have known what Hitler would do if allowed to come to power. With his all-powerful mind, he would have been able to see or know the precise moment when Hitler made his decision to commit unspeakably evil acts, before he committed them. God could have therefore allowed Hitler to make his choices, granting him his free will, but denied Hitler the opportunity to follow through with those choices, right? Generally speaking, our criminal justice punishes people for evil acts rather than wicked thoughts. But if God is all-powerful, why should he be so limited? He should be able to know what is in our heart of hearts.
And yet he did not intervene. At any point. We have arrived at a contradiction: God loves us and yet he allows bad things to happen when he could stop them without removing anyone's free will.
Think about a parent who allows his baby to crawl into the middle of a busy intersection and yet decides to do nothing. Does that parent love his child? Would anyone argue that said parent did?
So why do we make that argument for God?
When faced with a contradiction, we must revisit our premises because the contradiction is an indication that at least one of them is wrong. So God is either not all-loving, or not all-powerful, or he is neither all-loving or all-powerful.
The problem becomes even worse when the agent of evil is not man, but nature itself. That God allows earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, etc. to wreak havoc; that God allows cancerous cells to form in children; that any number of things where man is not even part of the equation of evil--these are all indications that he is not all-loving, or not all-powerful, or neither all-loving or powerful. The free will justification for God's lack of intervention plays no part in many of these examples.
Many argue that we cannot know his plan. That everything that happens is part of some ingenius, unknowable scheme to ... bring about something that is also unknowable and incomprehensible to us. Even if that is true, why would we call him all-loving or all-good when he allows children to die of cancer to further his plan? Not one innocent should suffer for a greater good. That notion offends our sense of morality and justice. Is God above morality and justice? If anything, he should be held to the highest standard, because he is presumably perfect and all-loving.
If, at the end of time, his plan finally comes to fruition and it is the most beautiful scenario, the best possible thing of all things, will we look down from heaven and say, "Yes, all those genocides were necessary for this to happen"? Will we say, "Yes, AIDs, sickle-cell anemia, ebola, and ALS were all good things?"
Can anyone honestly say with a straight face, "Yes, those children needed to die of leukemia in order for God to bring about his perfect, incomprehensible creation"?
Lucky I guess?
sharemaybe because there isn't a god
If it's gods intent to kill or harm me I will stick a .45 in his face to
because there is no God and surely by now with all the evidence people can see that
shareGod has chosen a time to pass judgment and that is after you die. Your problem has more to do with how you think of yourself. You have broken God's laws just as Hitler did. The Hitler's of the world can only come to power when the majority of people agree with them or the people just go along with it. You don't understand the sinfulness of man.
shareWhat you call God is not a person.
After the Big Bang, light expanded everywhere at once, into nothingness.
There was nothing outside of the light that is expanding.
So that is why it is said that God is light. Nothingness is the 'Devil'.
Yin Yang. Think of it in terms of science. Polar opposites or seemingly contrary forces
that are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, giving rise to each other in turn.
Opposites thus only exist in relation to each other.
Because God hates Jews for crucifying his son and Hitler killed Jews, so God and Hitler were best pals, he kept him alive as long as he could.
Hitler also miraculously survived WW1 where he was close to getting killed more than once.
Also a priest saved him when he was young from drowning in a lake, probably God told the priest there is a kid drowning, save him NOW!
Yup, God sure liked Hitler, probably cried when he died.
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