I heard this was a christian site. I'm a christian myself but I have had this question for a long time. So...

I heard this was a christian site. I'm a christian myself but I have had this question for a long time. So, why does God allow little children to die from bone cancer?

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theyre just npcs lol

High tier apologetics beyond me are required, I would do more harm if I attempt an answer.

I shall give you a bump.

He has a plan. A top secret plan. He can't tell you because, you know, it's secret.

Something having to do with original sin tainting all people even innocent newborns, and sin being the root of all disease.

There is no account in the bible of God creating NPCs. Please do not take such matters so lightly it is unbecoming of a self-proclaimed Christian.

There is no debating the heartache and shock that people feel as they witness the pain and suffering of children. Jesus witnessed many situations where He felt the trauma of children facing illness & disease. Like Jesus—we are placed into less-than-perfect situations so that we can express compassion, kindness and faith in the presence of God (2 Corinthians 1:3,4).

So you are telling me that little children are dying and suffering so that I could be tested for how much compassion I have? Our Lord is far too merciful for this. There must have been an error in translation.

>Our Lord is far too merciful for this.

Try again. The world is filled with evil and suffering. We have been given dominion.

In a fallen-world where human beings have free-will God cannot intervene with every single instance of disease and/or suffering. God would have to stop the biological processes in human beings. God would have to change the genetic make-up or the genetic flaw that is latent within each single person in humanity. God would have to supernaturally reach in and stop the spread of disease whether that would require Him to stop people drinking water, touching other people, etc. In his book entitled, The Many Faces of Evil, Dr. John Feinberg makes this observation, “because of the fall there are negative consequences for the natural order…in a fallen world people die as God said they would, and if they are going to die, they must die of something. One of the causes of death is disease. Some of these diseases may be contracted early in life and others may arise only later. Some diseases may kill slowly while others kill quickly. Some diseases are genetically based, while other result from germs in our world.”

Read Job, it's 100% none of your business. Bad shit happens, God's got it under control.

The bible may be the word of god... But is it ALL the word of god? The bible doesn't specify, we may never know. Scary stuff.

>God forgot to include part of His word when giving it to us

God is perfect. You feel the pain of separation and injustice and all the evils of the mortal world, but Creation and all the suffering you experience in it are but temporary things. Good and evil are ultimately an illusion; there is only God, and you will eventually join Him.

>I heard this was a christian site.
It was, now its a muslim site.

Have your frequent users converted en masse?

But did he forget? Or are we not ready for it? You know, just like with the child cancer thing. We may never know.

No it isn't.

Muslims are pawns of Satan.

>God
>forget something

He gave us everything we needed.

So do we need the bone cancer too?

Easy
Masturbation causes bone cancer

What is that x place you linked me to? That doesn't seem very christian. Look a student in philosophy of religion course told me to google Veeky Forums his and that I would find a christian website that liked debating theological Christian topics as much as I do. I'm looking around and I'm starting to think he was pulling my leg.

>So, why does God allow little children to die from bone cancer?
Same reason why some of the oldest christian communities in the ME are being ethnically removed while the Pope licks superior muslim feet or any of the crusader LARPers on this site don't do shit about it.

If it doesn't fit inside their comfort-zone of "christianity" then it doesn't exist.

He was right. Not all Veeky Forums posters are Christian, though.

Bone cancer and all other forms of suffering are not real. God is the only real entity. Do you feel any genuine distress when something dies in a story or game or what have you?

Okay so it's not a christian forum? Just that there are christians here? This place is kind of scary honestly.

low quality b8, but made me reply. i r8 8/88

But is it a christian website? Or the ruse of a deceitful demon sowing doubt in the mind of a twenty year old? Just like with christianity we may never know.

Lots of Christians here. Some of them are probably sleeping, that is all.

I sincerely have no idea what either of you are saying.

Okay, I don't think I will be coming back here. I was looking at a link that said politically incorrect and I have never seen anything so vile in my life.

Just three pages in I saw an uncensored photograph of three dead teenage girls dead on the street and the people discussing the situation had the cruelest sense of humor I have ever witnessed.

i warned you about Veeky Forums, bro.

/pol/ is cancer desu

/pol/ is the best board

>history and humanities

>/pol/tards actually post on Veeky Forums
Cant you just have your board and us have ours?

>all these people pretending little kids are innocent

Cucks, all of you. Crying to trick your mother into feeding you is the same as lying. It is a sin in the eyes of G-d and even toddlers deserve to be destroyed in hellfire as much as any murderer or adulterer.

The only reason anyone thinks otherwise is because they don't fear Jevovah and they want to continue their sinning ways.

Don't let Satan win, repent and pray for mercy you diseased sodomites.

I don't get it. Then we don't have really free will if we have limitations to our biology like death, disease, old age, and various other things beyond human control.

I mean if we could willfully tear out an unborn fetus and eat it raw and live forever, then yeah maybe he should send us to hell.

But really, there is mounting scientific evidence we are meat puppets. There are instances of pedophiles having brain tumors once removed making them no longer pedophiles.

If you are born with no balls and a dick, chances are you won't be horny and fornicate.

If you give a man certain antidepressents, he will no longer want to have sex.

How can we be said to free will when we are slaves to our biological makeup.

If we were to really have free will, we would be allowed to determine how long we live, what sex we are, what race, and if we have sexual desires and so on.

Maybe that is what transhumanism is all about.

Until then, we are just animals reacting to stimuli who thing too highly of ourselves.

>how many layers of Calvinism are you on?
>you are like a little baby reformer, a watch this

The same reason he allowed Abel to be murdered by Cain. For children who die of bone cancer, where there was any possibility of better treatment but it could not be afforded, were nothing other than murdered. And these very same little ones, if they do survive, might well grow up to participate in the murder of future little ones. Man, who introduced mortality, perpetuates bloodshed and wickedness upon himself, and then accuses God; God, being gracious and loving, pays the high cost of this bloodshed by coming down in the flesh, and suffering his person to die. His person, being God as well as man, therefore innately immortal as well as innately mortal, creates a paradox in death, and rises from the tomb; God offers his own body for us to share in, so that our bodies can rise as well, by being one with his. Most men reject this, and instead question why they must continue to inflict suffering on each other, which God told them specifically not to.

Agreed

God gave Caine the emotion of jealousy and anger.

If he made Caine less emotional, Caine could have used reason to determine his best outcome.

God never allows someone who be tempted beyond what they can resist. Cain chose to indulge his passions, instead of resist them.

Can you choose not to eat or drink? Forever?

There's nothing sinful about eating and drinking when done dispassionately and for the care of your body. There is something sinful about murdering someone out of passion, which is harmful to you spiritually and ultimately physically, since the wages of sin are death.

> I heard this was a christian site

Kek. From who?

It's a joke.

Because it gives him a boner.

>god can't just _______

you have already failed

>>>/tumblr/
>>>/reddit/

Because God hates us and wants to kill us all. That's why you have to pray and be a cuck.

God is a big meme dood.

>Veeky Forums
>Christian site
8/8 b8 I replied

Yes this is a christian site.

A far more interesting question is if god can really understand the human existence. There have been countless essays on how god cannot be understood by man. But how come noone has ever asked if god can understand humans? To understand fear, to understand living your life with no semblance of control, to understand powerlessness, to understand mortality.

I bet god is as baffled by us as we are by him

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God is perfect and transcendent. Everything is His creation, and everything within creation falls under His understanding. The problem is that the great majority attempt to humanise God, including the most fanatical and evangelical Christians that supposedly have the closest relationship to Him (and other monotheists, for that matter). Too many assume that God is a He, that God is a person, that God shares any of our psychology, when by the nature of His being He must necessarily transcend all of these things. God is truly beyond all human understanding, and all of Christianity, Islam, every religion, really, is but an imperfect attempt at understanding Him and His will.

have you considered that maybe god might have fucked up in the early days and made us inherently flawed?
have you considered that maybe he has some level of influence but can't solve everything?
have you considered that god might not want to just spoonfeed us annoying little shits every time we have a problem?

It will be a Christian site once Chuck C. Johnson buys it from Hiroshima

>I heard this was a christian site.

Congratulations, you used 110 words to say nothing at all.

"As Augustine says (Enchiridion xi): 'Since God is the highest good, He
would not allow any evil to exist in His works, unless His omnipotence and goodness were such
as to bring good even out of evil.' This is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He should allow
evil to exist, and out of it produce good."

- Summa Theologica

>it's magic, I don't have to explain shit

By the way, using evil to produce good is an attitude towards life that is typically polytheistic. It also makes much more sense in a polytheistic context, since the Gods in polytheism are neither all knowing, nor all good

I am saying that you do not understand that God is perfect and beyond any attempts at human understanding. We can understand ants, but ants cannot understand us, and God is countless orders of magnitude above us than we are above ants.

>lol evil isn't evil

Then why do people go to hell for it?

So nobody can understand God, and yet you understand this piece of information, which according to you can never be understood by anyone, perfectly?

>I heard this was a christian site
Veeky Forums has what, 10 boards or so for porn?

If we "can't undsrstand God" how do you know that he's infinitely good?

>Why do bad things happen
I shall use the following picture for better illustration.

I never claimed that my understanding was perfect, or that I even come close to a fraction of understanding of God; however, the alternative -- that a human can understand the infinite and perfect creator of the universe and everything within it, who exists beyond time and dimensionality, who can both embody and transcend all states of being and knowledge, an entity that can literally become anything and everything -- seems absurd. Are you claiming that you can understand a being that is beyond everything?

Again, I do not understand God. I cannot claim that he is infinitely good, either, but I can claim that he is beyond all good and evil as the perfect creator of everything we define to be good and evil. He is a perfect entity, and we cannot hope to grasp the truth that He embodies.

Why are christians so intellectually superior to atheists? Is it due to our never ending curiosity about the world?

>allow
user, God WILLS that shit. It's not just something that is "allowed" to happen.

God and the devil are one.

Christianity has view of things as mysterious, atheism (at least the polemic kind) is more concerned with showing how everything is clear cut and scientific and "just chemicals" in order to squeeze any possibility of God out of the picture.

LMAO

You and your religion are rotten corpses, while we christians are building civilization you muslims slaughter yourselves.


Anyway, it is good you show your true face, so people can see how hateful and dumb you are.

He's a cunt.

He has a plan. The plan will go for trillions of years so...

>I heard this was a christian site
So who dropped that bomb on you?

Everyone suffers who is alive, user, it's what we all have in common, yet how we suffer is different.

More like God can also speak to his people in other ways. The Bible isn't the only way to hear gods words. Or do you not believe in prayer and the activities of the saints,

>Crying to trick your mother into feeding you is the same as lying

No, for real this time: what did he mean by this?

>it's hateful to defend some of the oldest christian communities and sites of worship in the world
>while their own "kin" LARP on the internet about "muh crusades" and do literally nothing to help them
alright, friend

>it's 100% none of your business
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