God is not a dictator. He gave us free will and as long as people choose to use their free will for evil there will be evil. He also gave us an instruction manual and a living example of how to live. He also gave us access to His Spirit to help guide us. When people choose to live His way He starts relationships with them and cares for them providing some protection to offset the evil from others. I say some because being a perfect father He also knows when we need trials to grow and become stronger.
Didn't we also say, when those that have the power and knowledge to stop something horrible from happening to the whole world, sitting back and letting it happen would make you complicit as well?
Lecturing say people in China need to "get stronger" while speaking out just the tiny bit will get you killed...doesn't really help?
I may be misreading your point but God makes individual relationships. Bad things can happen to a geographical area but not everyone in that area will be affected the same way. Moreover, whose to say how one person got affected vs another is worse or on par? Only God would know because He knows what’s in our hearts and who needs what lessons.
God has also has been known to make covenants with nations who exalt Him and live by His standards. China is not one of those nations. God has relationships with some Chinese people so some Chinese will be given protection but not the whole nation.
When the communists took over and executed anti communists, the result was the same: believers in God, Christians or not, non-believers all died in the purge. Where was the onmipresent and omnipotent being intervening there and why didn't he?
Or is it one of those cognitive dissonance things like with the clot shot? "Oh you'll still get sick or die but you'll be less dead"
God is not a dictator. He gave us free will and as long as people choose to use their free will for evil there will be evil. He also gave us an instruction manual and a living example of how to live. He also gave us access to His Spirit to help guide us. When people choose to live His way He starts relationships with them and cares for them providing some protection to offset the evil from others. I say some because being a perfect father He also knows when we need trials to grow and become stronger.
Didn't we also say, when those that have the power and knowledge to stop something horrible from happening to the whole world, sitting back and letting it happen would make you complicit as well?
Lecturing say people in China need to "get stronger" while speaking out just the tiny bit will get you killed...doesn't really help?
I may be misreading your point but God makes individual relationships. Bad things can happen to a geographical area but not everyone in that area will be affected the same way. Moreover, whose to say how one person got affected vs another is worse or on par? Only God would know because He knows what’s in our hearts and who needs what lessons.
God has also has been known to make covenants with nations who exalt Him and live by His standards. China is not one of those nations. God has relationships with some Chinese people so some Chinese will be given protection but not the whole nation.
Did they really have a better outcome though?
When the communists took over and executed anti communists, the result was the same: believers in God, Christians or not, non-believers all died in the purge. Where was the onmipresent and omnipotent being intervening there and why didn't he?
Or is it one of those cognitive dissonance things like with the clot shot? "Oh you'll still get sick or die but you'll be less dead"