Question: Why does God not seem to do the obvious common sense thing?

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Answer #1:

The "foolishness" of God is greater than the "wisdom" of men.

Answer #2:

If God intervenes at the slightest hint of trouble, what does that benefit man? It doesn't; it makes man a product of a condition that would politically be called "the nanny state"; if He always fixed every problem for you, what do you really learn?

Answer #3:

a environment without storms is a artificial environment.

Answer #4:

God does things the way he wants. We may see something as foolish but he knows just how he wants to do things. I mean, if he wants everyone to worship his son, why would he have him born in a stable among the unclean animals? Why wouldn't he show himself to all men like he did in Matthew 16?

I think a book you would really like to read is The Case for Faith by Lee Strobel. He was an atheist, he is a laywer. He doesn't just give you the information on why God doesn't stop suffering but you can read it, see what evidence he has to offer, and come to your own conclusion.

Answer #5:

God's our shepherd, not our dictator.

Answer #6:

He doesn't have any interest in preventing suffering.

If He prevents suffering, by intervention, those spared will say, "God spared me from suffering! God loves me!"

So, God does not spare people from suffering so that they do not get the wrong impression about His affection.

Secondly, for those who do have His affection.., they do not need to be spared from suffering because they will be having a better afterlife anyway.

Does that make sense?

Yes it does!

Answer #7:

If you are God, then you must see things from an eternal perspective. You see the people who died go to heaven for eternity and see the penalty of the wicked. If God can see the big picture, then there is a reason God allows things which we will never understand. After all those Jews died at the hand of Hitler, the nation of Israel was born in 1948. Also, after 9-11, a lot of things are moving us to a final climax of history. As God, you see things like that from an eternal perspective. All things work together for good for them that love God. So it says all things.

Answer #8:

Humans have freewill to make their own decisions that doesn't mean their aren't consequences for making bad decisions or that someone shouldn't try to be stopped if they appear to be making a bad decision that could affect other people's lives negatively. So based on that I think it is possible to expect God to stop bad things from happening when people pray.

Answer #9:

Basically you are asking why does God allow bad things to happen.

If bad things never happened and everything remained perfect right from the beginning, then we would all be in heaven or the garden of eden right from the beginning.

But satan decided to mess that up. God did not want Lucifer to rebel against Him in Heaven so that He would have to throw Lucifer out of heaven (with all Lucifer's angels who were on his side), but Lucifer rebelled against God anyway.

God changed Lucifer's name to satan after He threw satan out of heaven and ever since then satan has vowed to cause as much damage to us humans as he possibly can in revenge. One of those things satan did was he also managed to turn many humans hearts away from God too. This was purely for spite because satan knows how precious humans are to God.

God cannot take anyone bad or who has been contaminated by satan or his genes into heaven, if God does that then heaven won't be perfect.

God also does not want to force any humans to love Him, because He wants us to love Him freely, and that is where free will comes into the picture.

Either we love God and everything good, or we love satan and everything bad, sooner or later we must choose between the two, because they are like oil and water, they do not mix.

God is waiting for us to all choose Him over satan so He can get on with it and send Jesus to finish the job (finish satan off), but many of us are still under satan's lying spell, therefore dragging our feet. God is using satan and everything good and bad in order to present us with two choices instead of only one.

God is saying: Choose me /good or satan/ bad.
God is not saying: You have no choice, you must choose me/ good.

Answer #10:

It is written in the Bible:

"The wisdom of the wise is foolishness unto God."

Answer #11:

Yeah, I think the concept of a benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent supernatural being, who answers the prayers of people who worship him, has always been a difficult one for theologians to explain away.
Personally, if by a very (very, very) remote possibility, God does exist, I want nothing to do with such an unpleasant being.





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