The Answerer

Good question and I have already answered several others like this one...but wars have a place in history.

Humans have hearts (wants) that can want a lot of things that are not theirs, so they steal it, take it by force or by stealth (robbing houses), and by mugging in the street…or even stealing a rubber in school. That’s like a small war – taking a rubber that is not yours – and so somebody has suffered a loss and must buy another one.

Wars are much bigger and a lot more people suffer loss.

God does not stop people being bad, nor does He force them to be good. It might be a very strange world if people were forced to be ’good’. I asked a class once ’How would it be if everybody obeyed the Ten Commandments like no lies, no stealing, no murder etc.?’ One boy said: ’There would not be any news would there, Sir.’ Funny or not? It makes the news very interesting but there is far too much bad news and too little good news.

None of that bad stuff is in heaven: ’God’s eye cannot look upon evil.’

There is a group of folk in the USA called ’The Amish People’ They will not use modern ’things’ like cars, trucks, tractors, home phones or ’modern’ things (there is a phone in the street for very short calls). They try to live like people did in Bible times. Recently a big ’Blue’ (dispute) arose in the community over how to behave. They took the dispute to the law courts. Dunno what it was about. Society grows and changes – maybe the girls were tired of wearing 200 year old dress styles – I know not.