RDD_1210
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Your logic is airtight in it's refusal to look at things. I can't help you with that, you're just gonna have to figure it out yourself.
No. God DOESN'T give people cancer, people do. Look at all the crap we put in our air, water and food as well as what we pollute the ground with.
Doctors have recently released a study that states cancer is much more prevalent today than it was hundreds of years ago.
My logic is far from airtight, if I thought that I wouldn't bother trying to have this discussion and understand why people believe what they believe.
As to your points-
Ok fine. People give cancer to each other. No arguments here.
Next question -
Why doesn't God step in to at least help those that are truly innocent, yet are affected by mans actions which is no fault of their own?
You think God doesn't step in to help the innocent? Ever watch the news and see "miracle stories" like a stranger in NY who saw a little girl fall off the ferry and saved her, only nobody ever found out who he was? How about some of the miracle stories like a dude back in 2005 or 06 who fell off a bridge and survived for over 36 hours in cold weather on top of a concrete piling with his bones broken?
Yes, God DOES save people. And, for some of those people He saves, He sends in people like me, who've got the experience (child abuse and a bunch of other things I survived), to go in and save others before they hurt or kill themselves?
Want to know 2 areas where I excelled in my service career? Suicide prevention and alcoholism counselor. Why was I so good at it? Went through some of it myself with various family members, and even almost offed myself a couple of times prior to age 30.
Want to know something else? I'm grateful for the horrible experiences of my life, because I survived them, as well as know how to help others through them too.
Nope, sorry.......God exists.
A stranger saving someone is hardly a "miracle" or act of God. That's an act of human kindness. Someone who wanted to do the right thing. Maybe that person believes in God, maybe they don't. Either way, that persons action don't have anything with proving God exists.
I think it's fantastic that you're helping people based on your past experiences. But your past struggles are not proof of God either. They are proof that you have a brain and were able to learn through trial and error what is important in life and how to share that with others, which is great....but unfortunately not in any way evidence of God.
You obviously had times of weakness during your life, and now show great strength because of it. That's your own doing, not because some invisible entity supported you, or taught you some sort of lesson. It may help you to stay strong to think that you are being supported by some all powerful entity, and I say if that works for you, fine. But to step back and really think about the concept and notion of God, it really does not make sense on any rational level no matter what comfort you may get from God, or the thought of his existence.
Sorry, to anyone with a truly open mind, the exist of God is impossible.