well I am livid at God at the moment for all the ways He has not protected the innocent and has allowed the evil to prosper
shame on you!
How can you be angry with God when bad stuff happens because people aren’t following His Word? :-(
I understand...
I have a read for you...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_We_Have_Faces
Sorry to hear that... I felt that way when my Mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer.... then my 8 year old son said something very profound ... “Dad, do you think God is mad at us.... we don’t go to church all the time...a lot of people do bad things and never get in trouble...” and he went on. So your comment begs the question, have we all done enough to protect God. God’s wrath can take a while....remember the dark ages? Just food for thought.... you are in my prayers and I truly hope your anger at God isn’t for the same reasons that I had. God Bless.
He allows the rain to fall on both the good and the wicked. He allows us a free will to choose how we live. Believe me, I know how easy it is to shake your fist at God. In the last six months, my wife has left me and I’ve been laid off after seven years with the same company and I am still not working. Lawyers have eaten up the severance package that I received. I may lose the house and have to declare bankruptcy and our two puppies may have to go to the Humane Society.
Is life unfair? For sure, however, we can CHOOSE not to be angry at Him. We can choose to accept that God has given us free will and that people often make choices that hurt others.
Most importantly, He gave us His Son, so that whomever believes in Jesus, will spend Eternity with the Father. No tears, no pain, no suffering with Him in Eternity. Those who do NOT choose to follow Jesus, will spend Eternity away from the Father, where there is no good and no hope, for ever. I pray that you choose wisely, as we never know when we may leave this existence.
Good luck with that carrying you through life.
Well, what have you done with the blessings God gave you to protect the innocent and keep the evil from prospering?
Grow up.
Then when bad things happen, you are told either that this is what God wants, or that He doesn't choose to interfere at this time because withholding action will supposedly lead to a better outcome eventually (when people finally learn to please Him.)
That the innocent are ground up in the process of people learning to please God then suggests to you that God's top priority must be teaching people to please Him, and therefore that is the only thing that is good.
Finally it occurs to you that your view of good--that which benefits humanity--is not compatible with the religious view of good--that which pleases God. At this point you either abandon your own views and masochistically submit to the idea that we are nothing but toys for the pleasure of an infantile, selfish God, or more likely... such a God could only be the creation of infantile, selfish minds who created Him in their own image.
That's when you realize the whole story is made up, like Santa Claus, there is no one up there, and the whole story came out of the Middle East anyway (there's your first clue).
Now there'll be about 30 attacks on me and people pinging the moderator to get me banned. ;^)
And being livid at God will solve sooooo many problems, right? He made you to protect the innocent and fight evil. Go to a homeless shelter and help a veteran. See Jesus in his face. It’s a lot more effective than whining on the internet.