12-13-2012, 10:31 PM
(12-13-2012, 10:27 PM)M-Jeeli link Wrote: Death, or energy recycling, is important, I agree. And I could only imagine the size of problems of overpopulation if we were to overcome death somehow in the future. But the fishy thing about death and the model of an all-knowing merciful God is that it's extremely contradictory, especially when God ends the life of a kid using unpreventable ways and still claim that he is the most merciful. It may seem to be necessary, but why create that 2 y/o kid in the first place.
isn't there some saying/quote from the bible "God giveth and God taketh away"? That coupled with "Everything happens for a reason". Some parents (after having lost a child to a life threatening illness) go on to do great things to help save other kids' lives with the same illness, etc. So I guess some people might argue that He/She (if there is a God/Gods) did it so that that family could help other people; a give one life to save many type of thing.