Why didn't God stop the Holocaust?

Answer 1

This is a Christian response.

God does not intervene in the way that the question seems to imply. With the Fall man became responsible for his actions, and God does not suddenly step in when things go wrong, even

as disastrously wrong as in the Holocaust

Could God have prevented the Holocaust?

Yep. However, God also gives man the freedom to make his own decisions. Man let the Holocaust happen, every single person who decided to stay "neutral". The Holocaust is another example of man's rebellion to God, and also is a warning for future generations of what can happen when a country astrays from The Bible.

"Why does God allow suffering to good people?"

For His glory! Everything happens for a reason. I must also add Israel became a country after WWII.

Here are three stories, of the many millions, of God's miracles.

Corrie ten Boom was a strong Christian woman who was sent to a concentration camp for helping Jews. In the camp, she started a prison ministry telling numerous people about Christ. Her time in a concentration camp strengthened her faith tremendously, even after her sister Betsie died in the camp. After liberation, she dedicated her life to telling others of what Jesus did for her. A popular quote by Corrie: "Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

Corrie and her family were "good" people before the Holocaust, but her experiences in a concentration camp made her closer to God then most of us will ever experience. "You never know that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have."

Diet Eman, a young Dutch Christian was also sentenced to prison. Although she was active in the Resistance (against the Nazis) she was arrested for a false visa. In her memoir "Things We Couldn't Say" she mentions how God blessed her through all of her trials and tribulations.

Louis Zamperini, the son of Italian immigrants, started out life as a "One Boy Insurgency" and later became an Olympian. When WWII broke out, he became a lieutenant and was captured as a POW. After the war he became an alcoholic. On the brink of divorce, his wife Cynthia went to a preacher, Billy Graham, and was saved. Louis ended up becoming saved, stopped drinking, and dedicated the rest of his life to Christ.

Trials bring out the best and worst in someone. If the Holocaust never happened, you probably wouldn't have heard of any of the above three, or famous people like Oskar Schindler, Irena Sendler, or Claus Von Stauffenberg and how courageous these people were, and those stories help us learn from others mistakes and wisdom. Their stories are proof that God is not dead, He's always working in mysterious ways.

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Answer 2

From a Christian standpoint: This would have to be lumped into the question on why God permits anything that would cause so much suffering. 1 John 5:19 says the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one. This would indicate that the world we live in, is governed and controlled by the devil. Little wonder than, that there is so much suffering because it is controlled by a manslayer.

God has not stopped the suffering because this is not God's world. This is the world we, as humans in general, have chosen to be part of and God is not wanted by the majority. You can go back to Adam and Eve wanting to decide for themselves right and wrong clear to our present day, where the majority feel that God is not a priority in their life or that he doesn't even exist at all. Simply put, humans in general, have rebelled against God. Rather than crushing the rebellion outright, God has permitted it to go on until the day there is no question that we need him to guide us, protect us, and to rule us.

He is not immune to the suffering we go through. Nor has he himself not suffered. You can imagine his feelings when he watched his only-begotten son die a most torturous death. A sacrifice that was made to ransom mankind from their error. He no doubt felt a deeper hurt than anything we can imagine when looking down at the events that took place in the holocaust.

Answer 2

We all have God in us therefore when we stop violence food which effect our mind than it will stop. Pure food pure mind will lead pure act(non violence)

Answer 3

causeGOD caused the holocaust!, to punish the Jews and hid his face from them.

Read Deuteronomy:28

It's very hard form me to stomach it!

God Warned the JEWS about Holocaust from the Very beginning!

If you need more definitions then read Bible Deuteronomy

I recommend you to start reading from the beginning of bible!

it's Pin Pointedly described there.

Even the Eagle[Symbol of Nazi] is there in Deuteronomy:28

It is not Saturn to be feared,.. but the lord himself,.. he Punishes, he heals, he's the Majesty,..

Saturn is just a silly tool in god's hands...mail me if you want to know more!

Answer 4

we couldn't stop before we did we had plan out everything u and we had to fight the war. We couldn't just drop in to a camp we had to get the leaders

Answer 5

people thought it was too dreadful to believe so they did nothing