I am a Christian. Why does God allow children to be tortured?

God allowed His only begotten Son to be tortured. He allows it because the time of suffering is very short in the grand scheme of eternity. An innocent child will eventually see their torture end. They will come home to the loving arms of our Father.

His wrath is reserved for the unrepentant. Nothing man or nature can do to us even comes close to what our Heavenly Father will do in that day of judgment.

One of my favorite studies in my life was delving into the history of Beethoven. This man was beaten by a drunken father and born to a prostitute of a mother. He wrote some of the most moving music in the history of mankind. In fact his final symphony was an ode to the night he was beaten for the final time by his father. When it was played for the first time in Vienna, the musicians dropped their instruments and wept.

From the dust and the meek God raises those who will humble the mighty.

Of course God does not allow the torturing of children or adults, people do it anyway. People do it because God has given them the faculty of free will and although God do participate to certain extent and in ways only God can determine as appropriate but clearly not to the extent that will render the gift of free will to non existent. Let us not forget that God will interferes one final time to set everything right.

If you are a Christian then you know that God is Just.

He has given us free will. Mankind uses that free will to hurt one another, but there WILL be justice for everyone.

Even for the people who insult or deny God, yes even for those here on YA! who stay in the religion and spirituality section just to deny that HE is truth.

Just keep trusting, my friend. I know the end of the story.....GOD WINS!

If we go on the argument that God allows bad things to happen, we must also praise God for every bad thing that does NOT happen.

"Thank you God for not letting a piano fall on me while walking to my car. Thank you God for preventing an asteroid from hurling to earth and killing us all. Thank you from keeping Nazi zombies from taking over the world today, etc."

We can't blame God for what OTHER people do to others. If God controlled everyone that wouldn't be very just, now would it?

This argument mucks around with Free Will, which is a very important thing that God gives. If we didn't have that freedom, would would just simply be mindless robots doing what God the puppet master tells us to do.

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EDIT: God is a just God, which means justice will be served. Just because God hasn't done it yet doesn't mean he won't. It would be like judging a book when you've only read a 3rd of it and say it never concludes itself. God tells us that justice is coming, but he is delaying it.

Why is he delaying? Simply because there are still some of those who have yet to follow him. He is delaying out of love; waiting so that as much as possible will accept Christ as Lord.

God does not answer every prayer. and he has his reasons. is almost all im saying. He either answers some right away, tries to (but someone wont help), later at a better time, or not at all.

Romans 5:3-5

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to get us ready. For we will be persecuted and suffer for Jesus Christ.

Just as Jesus Christ suffered and died for us. We will be in Heaven after we die.

there is a difference between allow and cause if a father gave his son 5,000 bucks because he loved him then his son decides to rebel and go partying is it the fathers fault nope

Because "thou shalt not harm a child" is NOT in the 10 commandments. Don't forget that the bible says children should be stoned for disobedience.

Plus I suppose there's all that free will B-S. There is no free will part for the children though, they have no say in being raped or tortured.

what do you think (if you believe the myth) that death by drowning for the infants and toddlers was in the great flood? I think they'd have preferred torture to drowning--so it rather tells u why your god doesn't intervene in torture--he's done worse.

The way the universe operates is evidence that there is no god. If there was he could clear the issue up in a heart beat.......still waiting