If God is love, why does he allow death?
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God is Loving, God is All-Powerful, and yet He allows suffering.  Since the Fall of Adam, sin and death have been in the world.  Until the new earth (Rev 21:4) when 'He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain', it will be so. \n\nAs others mentioned, the climatic picture of His Son's suffering for the elect is a stirring reminder that He controls all things, that God's Son Suffered at the hand of His Father who was pleased to crush Him (Is 53), that God Himself endured the worst pain of all time, and used that public display to define love: 1John4:9-10 'This is love : not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins'.\n\nGod is most glorified when we are most dependent on Him, so He weans us from the many things that displace Him in our lives.  That is love.  Love divine, all loves excelling (hymned Wesley), the romance of Biblical Christianity.\n\nRom 8:28-29  'And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.'
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I can't tell if you really want an answer or not.  \n\nIf you really are ready to hear the answer, here it is:\n\nLet's get back to basics.  There is no "her" as a god.  There is only one God, and He has come to us in three ways to have three functions.  God is the Creator, and Jesus is the Savior, and the Holy Spirit is the Comforter.  \n\nWhat is the point of this life on earth?  We are put here to make a choice.  Are we going to choose God or not?  God has a mass amount of love for each one of His creation- even if they are not in love with Him, even if they ignore His creation as a witness that He exists, even if they try to analyze their life away without just admitting they can't make it on thier own.  That is how Satan fell.  Pride.  It is a great barrier.  The meaning of life is to become Christlike.  \n\nGod is not controlled by time because He is not in the physical realm.  He knows what our choice will be.  Think about that- He knows that He is going to have His own Son die just so that a person's sins can be covered, and that person says "no, thanks".  He still goes through with it.  He still creates that person.  It is amazing to ponder.  \n\nOur own choice takes us away from God.  In this life, it means that we will live a life that always has an empty spot in it.  We choose not to turn to God even when we are alone and He is there, with His arms open just wanting to carry us through our trials.  In the life after death, choosing to say "no" to God means an eternity without God- out of His presence.  Nashing of teeth, etc.  Hell doesn't sound very hospitable.  \n\nHowever, God is still there.  No matter how many times we reject Him.  If this is you, you can always start now.  No matter what you have done, God has passion for you.  He is on your side.  I encourage you to call out to Him now.  "God- I've been totally denying your being.  I'm so sorry.  Please reveal yourself and your love to me.  I want to run to you.  Open my heart to see your amazing creation.  Help me to meet people who can guide me to you.  Open my heart and eyes to the price that Jesus paid so that you throw my confessed sins away as far as the east is from the west.  Thank you."  Get a Bible, or check one out from a library.  It doesn't have to be the King James Version (although that is a fine version).  Find a biblical church in your area where you feel like you can ask the pastor all of your questions.  Church is not only for the already saved Christian.  \n\nI've already been praying for you.
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good question. God gave us freewill, that means we can do whatever we want to it means your free to shoot the next person you see and God won't intervene, it sounds harsh but God wants us to be humans and not robots. but there's consequences to everything we do, we destroy the earth with our sin, sin doesn't just effect each other it effects everything around us, animals, birds, weather etc etc. God gave us freewill so we'd come to him willingly, he doesn't want to force himself on us...that's not love. He loves us enough to give us a choice to follow him or to not follow him. God hates what is going on in the earth, but he does intervene when needed. the tsunami for example, loads of people helped out with that in a world without God no one would care because why should we ?? without God it's survival of the fittest, it's kill or be killed there's no point in life pretty much. anyway God doesn't allow pain and suffering in heaven there will be none. our sin is the cause of pain and suffering.
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NOTHING is impossible for god, NOTHING is above god.If we eat NOTHING we will die.NOTHING is important than love.
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God does love unconditionally, but love cannot cancel out Justice, they must both be infinite, or God could not claim to be ultimatley Good, which he does claim.  There was sin, and it must be payed for, or God's Justice would consume it regardless of his love for what was consumed. \n\n If you loved your child, but the child did a horrendous crime, would you turn him into the authorities, or would you hide him? Surely it is unjust for a mother to hide her murdering son from the  law.  If the mother is Just, she will turn her son into the police, even though she still loves the kid, because she's a good mom. \n\n So the problem is humanity sinned against an infinite being, and that requires an infinite sacrifice to pay for that sin, otherwise, the sinner must face the punishment.  The animal sacrifices from a Christian point of view, never did remove sins, but was foreshadowing of the atonement that would come, the perfect infinite sacrifice that was required.  \n\nIf he didn't offer a perfect sacrifice to his justice, his infinitely just nature would demand that we be punished.  He cannot do anything else, it would be contrary to his nature (unjust).\n\nGod sometimes asks us to do things that don't seem to make sense to teach us things(regarding animal sacrifice).  All God asks is that we turn from our sin and trust in his perfect sacrifice.\n\nYou ask good questions.  It's so boring seeing "how can a good God allow evil?" over and over again.
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God loves everyone. Keep in mind that not everyone can live a happy, long life. The world would be overpopulated and we'd never live in a realistic world. God decides when you come and go. It's that simple. When you're needed in Heaven, you're needed in Heaven. He does not play favorites.
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God is all powerful. He (or She) could have done anything.\n\nHowever God in His unlimited love has given US the free will to choose. We choose to accept or reject God's constant offer of spending eternity with Him in heaven. God will respect the choice we make.
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Because free will is all about choices. God know before a person chooses but HE doesnt choose for that person...its up to the person...People are finite, GOD IS INFINITE. That's what makes HIM GOD!!! And if you dont get it...be not dismayed...neither do I...but I believe and have faith in HIM who created heaven and earth.  He wants our love and He wants us to choose HIM...ptl
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love is the ultimate,love is greatest.love made jesus to die the cross.
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look are religion does not worship death, we worship god, godhead three in one, father, spirit, son. think about this logically, god made tI'me for us to use, do you honestly believe god has a time, if you live life for eternity, what would time mean? this lifetime that you choose to live freely, is a blimp to god "time wise" death is only the beginning definitely not the end. so choose it wisely because one day you will stand before god and confess your sins, and tell him why you chose to do so. \nim not trying to criticize anything I'm just trying to help sorry if i offended you in any way, i apologize
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Actually God can not die. But he sent his son, and he died so that we can, if we do Jehovah's will, live forever!\n\nPs 37:9-11,29\nMatthew 5:5\n\n\n\nloj
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You are right,God does not send anyone particularly for dying to forgive people. If God's sons death could clear our sins, why are we still suffering? U can clear ur sins but u must know who God is, and how to remember him?\n\nGod’s Wisdom, Love and Power\nPeople may wonder why, if God exists, He doesn’t wave a magic wand and fix things, making or at least influencing everyone so that they do exactly what they ‘should’ do. But God never takes away anyone’s freedom of choice. God’s wisdom is to recognize and respect each soul’s individual identity, freedom and inherent goodness. God shares knowledge – a profound understanding of the dualities and dilemmas of love and hatred, happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat, etc. – but He does not make our choices for us. The soul is free to choose ‘to be or not to be’, ‘to love or not to love’. God’s love strengthens the soul’s will to free itself from the distresses caused by vices such as selfish desire, anger, fear, ego and attachment. God’s power helps the soul to recognize its highest potential and to aim for perfection by practising the art of simple living and high thinking. Such practice by a significant number of souls eventually brings about positive change in the whole of humanity.
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Death is just a natural part of life. A gateway to a much better place. Earth is only a testing life, to see how high of a kingdom we can receive from the Lord. Death leads us to judgement day, where I hope I can stand upright  before my God. Hopefully i helped. :)
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Good question. I have no clue. You would think we could choose our death if we had free will, but it seems as though we don't have free will, because from the very beginning we are born into this world of parents and circumstances not of our choosing. At some point, people believe, God begins to let us have "freewill". Either you believe that things are just because they are, or you believe that there is a greater power behind the scenes. What good is it to be of GREATER POWER, if you don't use it?\n\nAlso, death and birth are inevitable if you believe in evolution. If you believe in God, then they are not inevitable, it's just that God decided that it would be that way.
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The short answer is that God is loving enough to allow us to suffer the effects (both good and bad) of our actions and the actions of others. If God did not allow us to experience the consequences of our actions (and others'), then free-will would be only an illusion, and God would be unjust in judging some worthy of hell, and others being admitted to heaven. OUR ACTIONS CAUSE EVIL, not God! Does God allow evil? Yes! Did God create evil? NO! God merely created free moral agents with the ability to choose to follow Him, and do no evil, or to rebel against Him, and do evil things.\nThat begs the question, why did God create free-will? Because without free-will, we would be nothing more than robots, or puppets on a string. God created man for the purpose of having relationship with, and to serve and protect the lesser creations of God (animals, the earth, anyone or anything less powerfull than ourselves).\nHaving said that, God does use evil (when it happens), to further His agenda for the earth, and particularly for those that love Him, and are called according to His purpose.\nGod created the POSSIBILITY of evil, He did not create evil, and along with the possibility of evil, had a plan to turn what was evil into something beautiful. THAT is why Jesus MUST BE God, Because God Himself stepped in and bore EVIL on His own self, in order to undo the power of evil, Jesus must also be man, because evil was introduced to the earth through a man, and a man must then break the power of evil.\nJesus was both 100% God and 100% man - fulfilling justice for both God and Man.
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God can touch or heal according to his will, and often does.\nWe cannot know all things as God does - but he never wills harm to anyone, it is not possible for him because of who he is.\nThe reason we have awful things, wars, hunger, poverty, mental illness - is because we chose to rebel against God, to sin, and we live in the consequences of sin - in a broken world. Again, the terrible things of this world are not God's desire or will.\nHe would not create things to harm them - his way is love, forgives, grace, mercy.
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Hmm, yeah, that's a very interesting point! Why not just trust "god" to protect him? Now, would that be a sin? Because if it was gods will for him to die, than he's preventing that from happening, right? but if god was "almighty" then he could give him a heart attack or something...but then if he's that powerful, why the need for bulletproof...round and round we go....I need chocolate!  :) smart question btw!