Why would god take the time to help some drunkard that turned to christ when little kids are dying in Africa?

You have the typical scenario of the guy who says he's wasting his life on alcohol. He "turns his life to Christ" and through a "miracle" he stops drinking and gets better, or so he claims, yet god is turning a blind eye on poor suzy in etheopia (and lets assume she's Christian) dying from hunger and/or aids? Why would god make a miracle for some drunkard that with some half rate treatment and self control might have gotten better and not for poor suzy that has no options available to her?

Have you read the scenarios on supposed miracles?
People being rescued from drowning by invisible hands?

Personally I think it has to do with faith. I think some people want to believe that they were saved by a deity. It makes life so much more interesting.

The drunkard didn't stop drinking through a miracle. He just had nothing to believe in while drinking and when he made the choice to "try God" it gave him the strength to TRY not drinking.

Suzy is so sick and hungry she has no strength for faith. She needs real help. Is anyone there to help her? This is where we (people) have to do "God's work or it doesn't get done.

In short, the drunkard helped himself. It was alot easier for him to stop drinking , then it is for Suzy to start eating when there is no food available, or to get well when there is no medicine available.

Because God loves all His children equally, and He has a reason for what He does, it's just not up to us to know what that is. If He wanted us to know, He'd tell us.

God prefers to work the easy miracles. I've yet to see him cure an amputee.

God has his reasons. Nobody knows why.

BTW, why is it ONLY if they are Christian?!

Do you think thats all God does? He can do more than just one thing....

Other than therapy, maybe the drunkard needs grace to change his life. Only God can give grace. Starving children only need fed. Any human can do that who has too much. Do you have more than you need? Do I have more than I need? Maybe this is our problem, not God's.

becasue there is no god.....if there was why is he (or she) SOOOOOOOOO unfair?

believe in the FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER instead!

oh yeah, I asked them about it.... and they gave me many thumbs down

its logic

Who cares about kids in africa there are hungery kids in the US!!!!!!!!

What is the use of His creating you for?

God cares for everyone. little suzy already knows all about the love and power of christ........drunkard doesnt..

Why do you put more importance on some people than others? Is the drunk not a person? God is working thorugh those who obey Him day after day. There is a lot of bad in this world and it will be here until the final curtain call, however you cannot claim that God doesn't see the suffering of some just because someone who was lost is now found/

You are saying that starving kids in Africa are more important than the drunk, which is not true. No one is better or worse (person wise) than anyone else.

Gee, you probably don't think God stops to make sure the other girl named Suzy, in the U.S., gets an A on her math test or gets selected to be on the cheerleader squad? You really are a skeptic, aren't you?

To Jesus Freak - I've helped out the starving kids in Africa with donation to UNICEF. Can you say the same?

The starving children who may have aids in Africa are our responsibility. If you think it is so bad what have you done to help?

And by the way God is Omnipotent and Omnipresent which means he sees all knows all and is everywhere..... What an AWESOME GOD!!!!!!!

Come on now! That's not fair at all. Everyone knows God loves drunks!!! That's why so many Preachers are drunk all the time. Hell every time I drank ( Granted it's been twenty years since I've tilted out so I'm not in a state of drunken Grace at the moment ) I could feel God closer to me! Isn't that why people drink? If the starving orphans of the world want God to help out they better start drinking too! I thought everyone new this!

There is no god. And I consider that a good thing. We human beings need to help those less fortunate, if and whenever we can.

Dude there's no god.

I ask God why anyway. They may suffer but they have the most important thing in the world, life. Christianity or no religion for that mater can save people. People have to save people.

Dear Alucard,

First let me ask you What are you doing for the little kids who are dying in Africa?

I know that God knows what He is doing.
I know that God does what is good ALL of the time.
I know that God is trustworthy.

Perhaps the drunkard will be the one through whom the awesome uncreated Creator of the universe discovers the key to AIDS or to famine.

God works miracles through people who make themselves available to Him.

Who says God doesn't have a plan for "Little Suzy"? Her salvation if she is Christian may be much grander than the drunk guy. God sends many people to this part of the world to help these children. Many would be already dead if it weren't for missionaries who go their and risk their lives to save others. And let's not forget children are suffering everywhere, not just Ethiopia. Why not sponsor a child or go help out if your that concerned -instead of blamin God.

God loves us all equally, as has been stated...and since we are human, and can't always understand the reasoning God has, we don't have the answers, other than, "God has a Divine plan". Maybe not the answer you'd want, but that's the way it is! At least for now! We'll have the answers to this and all the other things we're concerned about, the next time around! Just have faith and trust, that God has a plan, and has reasons for allowing certain things to occur in this lifetime.
God Bless you!

Do you support either the starving child in Africa or the neighbour in your home town?
I suspect you don't help anyone and therefore blame God.

If I give money to starving refugees from one country I suppose you can pick ten causes you have declined.
When will you stop complaining about God and start doing some good?