If God is all-powerful, is he just sadistic?

Question

Let's assume that God is real.
Let's also assume that he is all-powerful.
If that's the case, is he just sadistic?

If the world of man was full of sin, but animals are just animals, why didn't he just snap his fingers like Thanos and delete those he wanted to kill with the flood, rather than putting innocent animals through torture, suffering, and death?

If Pharaoh had to be convinced to let the slaves go, why didn't God go speak to him? After all, Ramses believed in other Gods and had no reason to believe in Yahweh. Wouldn't that make more sense than killing children? Why not kill Ramses instead of his son?

If God is all-power and all-knowing, why did he need to test Abraham? Surely he already knew how Abraham would behave.

Why did the tree of knowledge exist at all and why did God allow Satan to exist within Eden? Isn't that sort of like leaving two children in a sweet shop with a paedophile?

I'm sure some of you have seen my religious questions/viewpoints before and may believe that these are "troll" questions, but I'm genuinely curious about the answers to them.

#Cammysquestions #BakedHaggis #Religion

sean1234 · Accepted Answer

1. No.
2. No.
3.3rd question, Jesus was tortured and died on the cross.
4. The Pharaoh didn't believe Yahweh was God. He would have just heard his own False God and not the God of Moses.
5. No^^^^ and it was the 1st born of Egypt including adults and animals. the Pharaohs own 1st born military died. The Pharaoh put the last plague upon himself.
6. Was Ramses not the one who was Pharaoh? Why didn't God Just kill all the evil in an instant. Why doesn't God just live your life for you? It's called freedom. Satan is the one who wants to give everything you want. What you want is for God to act like Satan, the great deceiver.
7. Abraham didn't know? Abraham was being tested. Its also an example to show future generations. What's the point if God knows, when no one else does?
8. They were told not to go to the tree of knowledge. They were being tested. this explains it...

http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/tree.html
Skeptics claim that God set up Adam and eve to fail by giving them a test that was either too difficult or deceptive. However, the Bible makes it clear that God gave Adam and Eve all they needed - with lots of different trees from which to eat fruit. It is clear that Eve knew she should not eat from the one tree in the middle of the garden that she was instructed to avoid. Instead of believing God and trusting Him, after all He had done for them, Eve chose to believe the lies of Satan (in snake form), and believed that God was lying to her. She ate the forbidden fruit and convinced her husband to do the same, resulting in their loss of innocence and a broken relationship with God and each other. Yes, they now had knowledge of good and evil, but it wasn't quite as originally advertised by the snake. We still have the same choice as Adam and Eve. We can gain the knowledge of evil by directly participating in it or we can believe God and avoid the things He has said are bad for us.

anything else?

ImagineSketchy · Accepted Answer

I think God is actually an alien which how he or it artificially impregnanted a virgin to give birth to an alien that they named Jesus. If God was all powerful, he wouldn't have had to sacrifice his child, I mean what loving parent would give their child up knowing that there's another way to go about it? And why not just make Jesus appear? How is something supposedly holy being birthed by a human female? Just doesn't add up. Also shit like fire ants exist... They don't belong. They are mutants and they cause problems for the ecosystem. There are other invasive and mutations that exist and ruin the delicate balance of nature, but y'know... God or whatever allows those things to live/exist. Good or bad... Do they actually exist? Animals don't have a good or bad, don't have a reason to utilise reason and live simply. Why are we plagued to live so more complex than them?

dancing_in_nebulas · Accepted Answer

Well seeing how God identifies mankind as gods and goddesses, it would probably help us to have the same knowledge of good and evil.

God intended us to experience good and evil while we live here, hence why we can judge good things from bad ones as we learn.

If nothing bad happened, nothing could be defined as good. Just as day wouldn't exist if there was no night. It wouldn't make since.

When we die, we reign over parts of the universe, containing trillions of other beings.

Probably a good insight to not plunge everything into war and distress as we do on earth.

But we dont get how bad, bad is, until we live it.

Animals suffer because we dont care.

Had the humans just not been wicked, the flood wouldn't of happened.

Others suffer because we dont care.

We suffer and self sabotage because we dont care.

Erasing every bad person in existence, means we all would die, since by basic moral standards, no one is innocent.

So, we have a limited life to get our shit together.

The fact that death can happen to us at anytime, just pushes us to do better each day.

But, humans just grow more savage.

Except some purging the darkness out themselves.

We will be eradicated completely by our own savagery and refusal to care for eachother.

So, God tells us to chill out.

So we dont all die when that time comes.

The bad people are examples of what not to do lol, because living with them and the bad in ourselves, for eternity after, is not heaven. Its hell.

Heaven is just free of sin and evil. Which is just loving everything more than yourself.

Ya know, that pure feeling you get giving a poor kid food, or sacrificing yourself for your lovers happiness, because their joy makes you happiest.

Its a nice feeling, that could be our lives now.

But, evil is just not caring about others.

And we dont give a fuck... to our impending doom.

Alpha09 · Accepted Answer

I see a lot of people with the same point. "Adam and Eve had a choice" "you can either believe in God or not believe in him, if you follow his ways he's a just god."
Let's back up to the part where God knew Adam and Eve would fuck up and the rest of humanity would be screwed up forever. But apparently to God that was worth it. The kind thing to do would have been to destroy what he had created from the get go, but no he was lonely in the space of nothing he had created. Human suffering, animal suffering, children dying, poverty, sickness, rape, genocide, murder oh and free will etc etc. All worth it because God was lonely. People do shit like that in today's world. Justifying the means to end or a goal even if it's cruel, and it's made to look like it's for a good reason. We call people like that a lot of things, like a piece of shit for example. But sadistic works to.

mistixs · Accepted Answer

Suffering in the world allows people to show compassion and thereby accumulate rewards in heaven (Luke 14:13-14). It also enables people to enjoy heaven more, because they know what suffering is like & are glad they aren't suffering anymore. You can't truly know joy without having experienced sorrow.
a few decades of suffering on Earth is paving the way for an eternity of much greater happiness in heaven (Romans 8:18; also see the story of Job, who received much greater joy after enduring a period of suffering).

TacocaT6969 · Accepted Answer

Absolutely.

The way that ancient storybook that was written by ancient humans, got lost in translation, taken literally instead of as a hypothetical moral guideline and then taken way too seriously describes it anyway.

Religion is a shitshow... watch, religious people are about to either try to “educate” me, argue with me or just straight up start throwing insults.

And the atheists will remain calm and add their opinions if they feel the need.

JDavid25 · Answer

#1 Animals are also apart of the world of man.. Since God gave man dominion over all creation, we tainted the rest of the world along wit us. Kina like how people commit bestiality.. God works accordin to the laws he built on Earth majority of the time, so he wouldn't just snap majority of the world off the planet, and leave the animals.. Lol..

#2 We don't know if Ramses had not reason to believe in Yahweh.. The Bible said that he had a cold heart already.. Plus you would have to know how horrible he treated the Israelites.. God saw that Pharoah and Egypt were already evil to subject Israel to things we can only imagine were horrible.. Plus, he wanted to show Israel and maybe even Egypt his Glory.. An example of why God works through humans is when God wanted to be King of Israel and they basically rejected him.. Imagine a hard hearted evil dictator..

#3 It was simply to show the world that Abraham was really the father of Faith.. God test us to prove to show us where our faith really lies.

#4 Adam and Eve were perfect.. They had everything they ever needed, and didn't want for anything.. God tells us that we have power to resist Satan.. Adam and Even had been around God in ways that no human has ever been again.. Really it would be more like 2 grown men with lovely, beautiful wives in a room wit a sexy woman.. They already got what they need & wanted, it would be they lust that messes everything up..

JohnAlaska43 · Answer

We are free moral thinkers. We have free will. Man was born in sin. Man chosses his own fate.
Either you accept God or not.
Believe in God or not.
No one can force you to understand Gods way. Just like you call him evil and unjust. Its your interpertation of God.
God never intended man to sin. Satan lied to adam and eve.

God kicked the devil out of heaven because satan thought he could over throw the most high.
God allowed man to take the fall in the garden of eden so that Jesus Christ could save all mankind.
God allowed satan to live so we can choose God over him. That we are not robots and can think for ourselves.
We get tempted daily. We either ignore it or accept the temptation.
Temptation turns into sin. We sin when we freely allow our temptaion take over.

we live because God allows it we die at the end of our life. Either you accept Christ Jesus in your heart or you dont.
When you die you will go to the great throne of Judgment. You will meet your maker and your salvation. If you Choose Jesus you live. If not you will spend eternity in hell.
God is a just God.

Anonymous · Answer

If god is all powerful then he can do it how he wants - Romans 9:14-21 New International Version (NIV)
14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses,

“I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”[a]

16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[b] 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[c] 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

Twenty2 · Answer

Actually your questions are good. Tho I don't believe in God and that everything is planned. I believe we create our own future. I am a Hindu. And in that, there's KARMA, you get what you sow. Also, this is Kali Yuga which is the most fucked up time to be in.

hahahmm · Answer

It could be like when you watch a fictional movie, you don’t get too broken up when a character dies but the characters in the movie do. From God’s POV, knowing everything except things he chooses not to know to entertain himself... our lives would be like watching a movie. In theology there’s the concept of predestination which means people’s entire life was known before they were born & from Gods pov we have zero choices. This conflicts with ‘free will’ which is also given to people by God. It’s a mystery how both can coexist. In Genesis God definitely said he wanted to see what adam would do with free will.

TripleAce · Answer

Interesting, but lets look at it from another angle

assuming god is real, then id naturally assume our lives have some sort of great meaning to it
we aren't just poof and there's a human. This is Probably god's most sacred creations
and in that case id again naturally assume whatever god does god will have done it for the ultimate goal, whatever that is...

or maybe I get killed by god but I get sent to heaven... thats a great deal

SpookyKat · Answer

Because man has free choice, h
He may have known the outcome but... He can only show us the door we have to walk through it. All our desicions are a test of faith. Some greater than others. God had to make an example of Pharaoh as he did lucifer. He had to show that one side, His side, the side of the Light and Truth is more powerful. For all creation is duality, a scission from Unity. And all can only be created or understood by a trinity. Cause, reaction, effect. Witnessed by a separate entity outside of said cause, reaction, effect. As us Alchemists say "No stone shall stand unless it is the triangular stone".

Poormanscomedian · Answer

It is called FREE WILL. What you do with it determines your destiny. If you use yours to kill people , then you will go to Hell. If you use yours to help people and believe in Jesus/God , you will go to Heaven.

One must be worthy to get in Heaven and you are tested and graded on how you choose to live your life.

You want robots with predetermined outcome. What would the sense in that be? He could have just kept the dinosaurs and let them eat each other for eternity. God has faith that some men will do the right things , where Satan does not.

Grond21 · Answer

This is one of the oldest questions that people have asked about God. Minikahda paradox, that if God is all-powerful and all-knowing, he can't be all good. Because of the sin and evil in the world.

If you haven't yet, I'm recommend looking up some Christian answers to this specific question.

My understanding goes something like this. There are two types of evil. Personal level, where someone chooses to do something bad. And natural evil, like at hurricane or volcano eruption. The personal level has to do with free will. God created us to love him come up but you cannot love without free choice. And free choice necessitates the ability to choose something that is against him.

Natural evil we view as bad because it kills many people and causes a lot of injury and pain. But our wants do not dictate what is truly good and bad for us. Something can be seen as bad, and then years later you see it as a good when you understand it in a different context.

Hurdleez-Swampede · Answer

The problem that atheistic thinkers of the flesh and mistake they make is that evil disproves God. Actually, if we were forced to do good, then we'd be robots. To have choice makes us human.

If you want to play the but some acts are not man's choices like hurricanes, floods and stuff, then natural disasters is just a part of the world and sign that the earth is sinful. Just because people happen to be killed by a falling tree does not mean God willed it. Sometimes things happen because it's a freak accident. God still gave people the opportunity at receiving salvation.

Why would it matter anyways if you are saved? Being saved is the greatest gift and to intentionally throw that back at God by resisting His existence as fact means you are worthy of Hell. God will not be mocked. He knows what His plans are and in the end, all people will be humbled.

Kaazsz · Answer

Because god is not a guy in the sky. Rethink these questions, but frame god as the universe. Frame god, as this existence. God is this reality.

So when you cry about god creating “evil” that only applies to the personified vision of god as a guy in the sky.

God is not a guy in the sky. If you read the Bible with the perspective of “god is the universe” everything makes perfect sense.

Anonymous · Answer

Shit I wonder the same thing!
Because he has to be cruel to make closed minded people with such big mouth! I wonder if prolife approved of the act of God and Abraham? 🤔 I just can’t! 🎤🤦🏻‍♀️

If God is all-powerful, is he just sadistic?

RolandCuthbert · Answer

I don't know. You might want to ask God.

I remember when in the Bible Job asked God why did He let the devil infect him with diseases, take away his family and his riches.

And God asked him, "Do you remember being born?"

www.biblegateway.com/.../

cth96190 · Answer

I can use Genesis to argue that Jehova is more evil than Satan.

tonicandgin · Answer

God must like playing games. When he was Zues he didn't stop Pandora from opening the box all because of a stupid bet.

asianfreak · Answer

He’s not sadistic. He loves all, but he’s just. Humankind was on the same page as Him until it decided to break away from Him. And He also allowed and still allows free will. He’s already stated those that don’t believe in Him will cease to exist at His appointed time.

frerardsprincess · Answer

That’s why I don’t like religion, I could never bring myself to worship and look up to someone so cruel

bulletbob555 · Answer

Sadistic no. Yes he's not here to take care of every little thing. Have you watched the news I can tell with everything going on he must be busy taking care of important stuff.
Your statement and questions didn't really adress that aspect. Thats my take. There is also the devil he must be busy as well

genericname85 · Answer

you didn't say that we shall assume he's "omniscient". in that case one could give him the benefit of a doubt and just assume he's dumb xD

Wowgirl30q · Answer

Somebody call for a Super Villian?

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