If there's no god what controls where we're born and the kind of life we're...

[Flavio89]

...introduced to? I'm agnostic and me and my family have quite a comfortable life... how come I was not born in some poor family with no food or water? Is it just luck? chance? or I've been just blessed by a "divine being?"

 

[Giggity Giggity]

Do you think every egg a female produces
in her lifetime should be fertilized?
Every egg is a different person.

 

[Ivanhoe1963]

Well some would call that fate. Yet then it would mean that fate had a role in where you are and you needed to find out why they fated you to such a fate!

However God does place individuals in specific places, but this is grace the unmerited favor of God. If you are in such a comfortable life - "Grace has put you there, and if it was in the other grace is supplied more that you might bear up under it." Yet which grace is better in the palace with opulence and gold, and have no worry and thus no desires to find God or the one who is abject poverty and finds the grace of God overflows to the point they realize such grace points them to believe and trust God. So which grace is better?

 

[Leonard]

Nobody controls anything.

 

[No chance without luck]

what if you were born into a poor family with no food or water?

what would that prove?

does god not like africans?

you seem to be trying to imply that you are special, and that god has chosen you above Africans to have a nice life.

obviously there is nothing that controls. the random distribution of people born into different situations is exactly what you would expect if there is nothing controlling it.

if god controls it, he could make everyone be born into a decent situation.

 

[Joe P]

God does exist so your question is moot.

God is sovereign in all things and that is a great comfort. God creates all life.

 

[Life Guru]

If there is no God then anything goes, anything goes because by removing the God constant what is left is all relative. Even if one is able to come up with a rational explanation as to why we must conduct ourselves (Individually as well as collectively) in a certain way, somebody else can change the premise and dismiss it without assigning any reason and he or she will be as right or wrong as the next one in line.

We are all born with a system defined by the laws of God and are product of individual as well as collective actions of the community acting out of these laws.

 

[Mungo Brah Feed the Lad!]

Did you ever take mathematics or infinite series or even probability?

 

[Franky]

Just random probability.

 

[kool dude]

Peace

It is divine decree by God who bestows all things to human beings..

 

[Peloristic Atheist (A)]

It's luck.

 

[Nakor]

Luck of the draw!