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RE: If God is a loving God, then why is there so much suffering in this world?
I feel that you title was misleading. You gave zero reasons why you think the god you believe in is loving. If he is willing to send you to hell for your choices is he loving, or vengeful?
Ask yourself, if there was no evil inside our hearts, would we be suffering?
Yes. We suffer not only because of evil, we suffer from diseases, disasters, freak accidents and so on and so on.
So, suffering in this world is caused by men only. Unfortunately.
Not true for the reasons above. There are so many causes of suffering that come from the world around us, not ourselves as men. For instance, why would a loving god allow a baby to die on the first day of her life?
Part of the answer has been answered above, but regarding why I think God is loving:
I would say that He takes care of us. The air that you and I breathe, if we were to pay for it... you get the point. That makes us live. The food that we eat, the water, the weather. If God had to bring the sun closer to the earth, we would all die. Same if there was no sun at all.
So God created all this environment for us to feel good. The rest is only a test. Anything other than that, only God knows. It happens for reasons beyond our understanding.
I guess the more important question is, how do you know this god of yours exists at all. We can breathe air without anybody allowing it. The sun would easily exist in the exact same way without any god at all.
How do you know god created this environment at all?
Your point is interesting, but what makes you think that the sun would easily exist without any god? Big bang?
An explosion that nobody triggered and after which all the stars and planets would appear at their exact place? I would believe it when science will prove that (which will never happen since science itself is recognising that a superior being might be at the origin of the creation of the world).
We have measurable objective evidence for the existence of the sun. We even know how it works.
We have zero measurable evidence for the existence of god. Unless you have some evidence god exists?
I take it you don't have any good reason to believe then?
This short video might clarify few points:
That video was clearly made by a person that doesn't know much about genetics and biology.
This video doesn't explain in any way all the junk DNA. The fact that the video's maker seems ignorant about is that a great deal of our DNA is actually junk that doesn't serve any real function. That goes against the idea of intelligent design. Nothing intelligent about junk, right?
But if there is random mutation and slow imperfect evolution, these strands of junk DNA would be exactly what you would expect. On top of this, DNA actually shows us exactly how species evolved from a common ancestor and helps us understand very clearly who evolved from whom and how we are related to all the other life on the planet.
Additionally, the person that edited the video and tried to point out that Dawkins admitted to intelligent design has been either 100% dishonest and puposfully misleading or 100% of the meaning of the words "might" and "context".
Dawkins here explained that IF another species that evolved naturally throught the means of evolution was advanced enough to create artificial life to seed on the planet only THEN you MIGHT find evidence of intelligent design. Evidence that has not been found yet...
You shouldn't post videos that ignore so many facts and purposefully try to misrepresent what somebody had said.
You should check this out instead: