10/17/13

Q87: Why did God make bad things like cigarettes and cancer?

Truth is God did not make them. We did. ‘We’ also made drugs, land mines, adultery (having sex with someone you shouldn’t) and all the things that evil minds can invent.

When somebody feels bad, it is often God they blame - because it a normal thought reaction to blame somebody else! Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent (Satan). That’s in Genesis Chapter 3.10-13. I have done it often in my youth.

I guess God thought long and hard as to whether He should allow ‘man’ to have a choice to be good or bad. He chose to allow us freedom to think and act good or bad thoughts and deeds.

The TV has a great time filling news and current affairs with all the murders, knifings, assaults, fires and car crashes. (Count them for a few nights). I despise ‘The tenant from hell’ Current Affair shows. There is one almost every night!

Business men make zillions of dollars from cigarettes and weapons of war. Millions more ‘good’ people help the homeless, heal the sick. Some spend their best years doing ‘good’ things often with only living expenses as reward. I personally know twenty or thirty of them. They have to come home later to have their children educated in Australia. They are called missionaries.

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The Answerer - Peter Harris, answered children's questions from his many years of teaching "Scripture" classes.
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