i will counter this argument. Your argument is errornous. Our
house is built first by early cavemen and later modified and
improved with new knowledge.
Nobody says universe and our things in modern life is a lego box
with million of things at first and after shaking, these things pop
out. As you can see , our the things in the universe has a history
of how they have evolved.
You analogy is misleading and also unreasonable in comparing
with universe.
secondly, if god is not obligated to save his believers, then
that ,means that being a believer cannot ensure safety of
oneself.
i will come up with this statment contradiction.
When people manage to survive an accident, they can attribute it
to god and say that he saves them.
When people failed to survive, you then say the god is not
obligated to save them. Isn't there some kind of favortism
reasoning down here. god get credited if people survives but he is
not responsible when people dies.
your 2nd reasoning is flawed. Since when is it God's sole
responsibility and obligation to ensure believers' safety?
HOWEVER, what you do see in the bible is that,
Jeremiah 11:17, "The Lord of hosts, who
planted you, has decreed disaster against you, because of the evil
that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done,
provoking me to anger by making offerings to Baal.” (ESV)
God can choose to keep us from harm or not. Either way, it is
just, because as echoed in :
Romans 9:20-21, "But who are you, O man, to answer back to God?
Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like
this?” Has
the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one
vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?"
Either way, we know it remains in God's sovereignty, because
Romans 8:28 says, "And we know that for those who love God all
things work together for good"
I am of the view that God allowed all things to happen, but the
question is not “Why does God allow bad things to happen to good
people” but rather, “Why would a good God allow bad people to
live?”. In fact, is there anyone "good" to begin with?
If you have read this far, including the bible verses, take a
look at this.
Depending on which culture and country you come from, but when i
was growing up, my parents warned me a lot about having a good
behaviour, but i still chose to take a different route and did a
lot of wrong things and put myself in harm's way. By my choice. By
my wilful decisions. Can i still blame them?
