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Originally Posted by kip2002
Got your message brother. Sometimes i question The Almighty too with all the evil, hunger and diseases i see today.
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... And when you question and things don't make sense, what do you do?
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Originally Posted by kip2002
If you have read the Bible, all the bad things you are seeing in the world is because of the evil in the world.
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i disagree.
On boxing day of 2004, a tsunami in the indian ocean killed 250,000 people. The bad after-effects of the tsunami and 250,000 dead are too many to mention. They include massive disease from having all those dead bodies around, starvation from total loss of all farmlands, poverty from lost property and businesses, loss of loved ones, loss of breadwinners resulting in thousands being forced into poverty, crime increasing as that becomes the only resort for those who have lost everything they ever owned and worked hard for, etc. A heck of a lot of bad came from that tsunami.
The tsunami occured because there was a major shift where two tectonic plates meet deep under the indian ocean. This resulted in the 2nd largest earthquake ever recorded, which triggered a massive wave, which because the tsunami. When god created the earth in his master-plan, it involved tectonic plates moving, and with that came massive earthquakes. In other words, god is 100% responsible for that tsunami, and for those 250,000 deaths. How do you then blame that kind of bad on evil, especially the evil of man? unless you're saying that god is evil?
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Originally Posted by kip2002
Again if all the chrisitians in the world would do as Jesus said, no one will be dying of hunger at this age where some have so much while others are dying of hunger.
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how exactly? and what about disease, would that also be cured if we just believed?
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Originally Posted by kip2002
The best of all, He has given us the free gift of salvation, our only job is to believe in His Son, and our sins are forgiven.
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if you have to do something in order to get a gift, then be definition that gift isn't free. Salvation definitely isn't free. You have to do a heck of a lot in order to receive it.