God so hated the world

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

What a stupid question.

Boru

Why don't you either answer the stupid question or let us know why you are so quick to avoid it?

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I’ll do better - I’ll explain to you WHY it’s a stupid question.

Firstly, there are thousands of organizations and millions of individuals who make sincere, concerted efforts to alleviate hunger (look at the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize). People ARE making a tremendous effort to feed other people in the short term and to decrease food insecurity in the long term, people they don’t know, people they have no reason to care about, people they’ve never met.

Secondly, God is alleged to love everyone (except Esau, which is understandable, I think - Esau was kind of a dick), to care about everyone, to be infinitely powerful. To let people starve when God has the ability to act to prevent it is an immoral act. It doesn’t have to involve dropping manna from the sky - God could simply prevent a drought or a cold snap. God could make the local warlord have a change of heart to let the food convoy go through.

Third and lastly, it’s a stupid question because you assume without any evidence or justification that people who ask why God doesn’t look after hungry people aren’t trying to look after hungry people themselves.

Boru