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Why do people generally only attribute good luck to God, but not bad luck? Like in Chile for example?
They say it's a miracle that God saved all these miners, but what if they had died? Whose fault would that have been? Or for that matter, when God decides to save a starving child, why doesn't he/she save all the other starving children? Or even better, why let anyone starve in the first place?
I'm not trying to provoke anyone, I'm only trying to understand the thinking behind this ideology. Since so many people are saying it's a miracle that these miners have been saved. I'm glad that they have been too. But is that really what it's about? Finding something to rejoice in and attributing it to God? For the sake of finding something positive in a world so full of tragedy?
Thanks in advance for your honest answers.
5 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's all marketing.
Who would follow a deity they know and understand to be cruel?
- Jabber wockLv 71 decade ago
Confirmation bias.
There was that story a wee while ago, about some guy falling off a building and having his fall broken by a car, so he survived. The owner of the car attributed the guy's survival to the fact that he had left his rosary beads in the car.
I asked a question here if the rosary beads had *caused* his fall, and was assured by many that no, they had saved him! Of course my requests for evidence of that were not rewarded...
- 1 decade ago
So, if God saved these miners, does that mean he has to prove himself? Did he cause them to be trapped in the first place? Why not supernaturally transport them out of the mine BEFORE they became trapped because of the Earthquake? Is God so vain that he has to let people suffer so he can prove how loving he is?
- ?Lv 71 decade ago
His ways are not our ways. Your question assumes that we think like Him and He thinks like us.
I personally don't think it is a miracle the miners were saved, it's a miracle they lived and survived.
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- ?Lv 71 decade ago
Semantics my friend.
When something bad happens religious people will use the "God works in mysterious ways" excuse or the "It is not for us to question Gods actions" excuse.
