In religion you are taught that God is this all-powerful being that watches over all and gives to his children (the people). The one thing that bothers me about this is the number of deaths among children to natural causes beit cancer, or famine. Why does the almighty God allow this? Wouldn't this be considered an injustice to his children?

One of the many questions about religion I have, not trying to spark an argument...just trying to understand.

It isn't something God wants. It's called the "wages of sin".

We brought all of this on ourselves.

I've asked myself the same questions many times... I gave up.

The Classic Cop out Answer is "the Lord Works in mysterious Way's"

why would small children have to pay the wages of sin, they are innocent.

It is a common belief (romance) of the church that God is the creator of this world. Reality says that if God creates in perfection there are many aspects of the creation that are far from perfect. There are writings by the early church fathers that could clear this matter up for you. You might want to view the Nag Hammidi Library. There you will find a book written by the Apostle John that gives the account of Jesus describing the creation. The physical has but one true purpose to keep you tied to the physical so you are blind to the reality of the spiritual.

God is infinite in his wisdom.
He has a plan greater than ours.
We can't aim to understand, just acknowledge his infinite wisdom. and have faith...that there is always a reason.


and well adam and eve....back in that DAY..created SIN.

Didn't they say "suffer the little children to come unto me?" He wants them to suffer and then come to him. It's simple. If we made it to an adult, we've somehow failed god.

I agree with this statement. Is not The Classic Cop out Answer "the Lord Works in mysterious Way's"

I myself many times has question God many times; especially after my divorce. Knowing that God hates divorce, I couldn't understand why He let it happen to me, and in my hurt, I blamed Him for not saving my marriage; I still wonder sometimes, why He let it happen, but he also promised me that He knows the plans He has for me, and those are plans to prosper me, and not to harm me, and to give me a hope and a future.

I have to trust Him and believe in Him because maybe my choice in marriage was not the one for me, yet I went thru with it, therefore, the heart ache, the pain and the sorrow, I borught it up upon myself.

1) Interfering in the world would remove the need to believe through faith, people would believe through first hand knowledge. The first test of faith is if you want to know or not. If you never have to ask yourself "If there is a God, do I want to know him", then you never really have to question if you should worship him or not.

2) I think it's very likely that God allows tragedy to happen in our lives and in the world for several reason.
a) To teach us to rely on him.
b) So we can help our fellow man.
c) To test our faith.
d) To make us seek God out.

So in the case of an infant that is stillborn someone that doesn't have the ability to choose God, what would happen then? If the faith can't even be tested do they go to hell? Or stay a spirit on earth?

The test would be for the parents, wouldn't it?

As far as what happens to child, I don't know. The Bible doesn't cover that subject. Maybe they go straight to heaven, but that doesn't seem fair, everyone else must accept Jesus to go to heaven. Maybe they go to hell, but that is obviously cruel and evil. Maybe they just cease to exist. That seems fairly reasonable to me. They never thought, they never consciously acted. I honestly don't know and I could probably speculate and conjecture all day, so I will just wait until I know to think about it.

The word of God says that we must partake in Christ's suffering. I can quote many scriptures about suffering, discomfort, etc, but here is one that I have at hand:

"Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church," Col.1v24