So some people made up their own versions (interpretation) of what a god would want. How do you know that that's correct?You do realize that god’s law, as you call it, was written by men, and not by an invisible superbeing.God never promised anything, that book was written by men. Got anything else, like a real reason why a god would make deformed and retarded babies?The short answer is sin.
The long answer:
God doesn't make them deformed. He allows people to be affected, directly or indirectly, by the sins of the world, which humans invited in, some in more severe ways than others.
His reason for that?
I'm not a supernatural being with the ability to see the future and into people's hearts and minds, otherwise I might have an answer.
But, God does promise that everything he does or doesn't do has a purpose, a reason, a time, a season for everyone.
I used to wonder about why God allowed pain. I thought once I gave my life to Christ, my pain might lessen. When it didn't I sought answers and almost gave up on God.
A couple of things stand out from that time.
The Footprints in The Sand poster.
If you've never seen it, look it up. It's a metaphor for people who think God isn't with them during times of suffering, only during times of happiness.
The Passion of the Christ movie.
I thought well God must not understand pain at all if he allows such suffering. My prayers were never answered about pain relief. Either that or He is sadistic.
The poster helped me realize He is there during hardship as well as good times. Actually much more closely than you'd think.
The movie helped me realize: 1. God didn't answer the desperate prayer of His own son. The plea to spare Him the suffering he was about to endure. But there was a very important reason for that. 2. Jesus is God in the flesh, so everything Jesus experienced during that time, every painful hit and lash, broken bones, the pain of abandonment, friends throwing you under the bus or claiming to not know you, being without God's presence, hunger, thirst, all of that and more, God experienced as well.
Even though God knew what the end result would be, that Jesus would raise from the dead and be with him in Heaven to prepare it for all who will come, God still had to endure feeling and witnessing His Son go through all that and die a horrible death.
Sin affects people directly and indirectly.
But let me ask, which is better to have, a short span of misery in exchange for an eternity of happiness, or a short span of happiness in exchange for an eternity of misery?
As KellBell explained, God doesn't make deformed and retarded babies. They are a result of nature, imperfect genes, passed down through the generations or as a result of the behavior of the parents such as fetal alcohol syndrome. Sin is that which harms us and/or others and it can be cumulative passed down through the ages. It is bad because it does harm us and/or others, and that is why God is against it, and why he warns us against it and teaches us to reject it. If everybody did there would be utopia on Earth. But EVERYTHING that is wrong on Earth generally comes from people not paying attention to God's instruction/law and/or overtly or inadvertently committing sin.
No. God's law IS God's law. His person may be invisible, but his handiwork, his law, his Creation is evident for all to see who have eyes/soul to see. Some interpretation of it has been written by hand.
Who is capable of knowing what is and is not 'correct' when none of us were there? Those who wrote the Bible were writing in their world, their time, their culture as they were capable of understanding it. We err completely when we try to evaluate what they wrote or anybody wrote eons ago via standards of our 21st century experience, sense of morality, our culture etc. and/or by demanding literal translations of everything that could metaphorical or allegorical or figurative. To understand the Bible or any other writings from long ago, we must read through the eyes of those who wrote it and allow them the same literary license that we allow modern day writers.
Meanwhile, here and now, we know God by experiencing God and using our God given common sense and logic and ability to see and understand. I think the fact that some try so hard to attack the faith of believers, to PROVE God doesn't exist, to convince others that their non belief is valid, is a pretty good case for God existing. They don't work as hard to disprove anything else.
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