It's not a copout. I have no idea what God's plan is or what his true intentions are, so I've surrendered to Him, for I know that I'll never truly understand everything that He does.Desosus wrote:And sorry, but "he knows what he's doing" is a terrible copout. Why don't you go to Africa and see a child dying of thirst and hunger and say that to him?
If a god exists and it allows things like that to happen, I have no problem calling such a god an evil psychopath.
You can say what you want, I have better morals than your so called god. A 10 year old would have better morals than the god who calls for murder and genocide.
God is in total control of everything, but it was not God who caused genocides and murder to happen, but it is man. He has given us complete free will - free will to deny him, free will to become a serial killer, free will to lead a Nazi regime and wipe out a race, free will to donate all of our lottery winnings to charity, and so on.
And you say, why does He allow these to happen, the good and the bad? I frankly don't know. But the best reason I can think of is that somehow, all the horrible events will help to further His kingdom and expose Christ to people. Think of a tapestry. On the back, there are thousands of threads that weave together but don't form anything. On the front is what God sees - the whole image, the beautiful image. The threads on the back are us, and we all intertwine together to form God's plan, but we can't see it's beauty. Quite honestly, it's unattractive, but God can see it and knows what it is.