God's Indifference Some People example essay topic

God's Indifference Some people believe that God was indifferent toward the Jews during the Holocaust. It is hard for us to imagine what God was actually thinking during this horrible event in our history, maybe we are not meant to understand his reasons why he allowed the Holocaust to take place. I do not believe that God was indifferent toward the Jews, he loved them too much to ever forget about them or turn his back on them. God was not indifferent because he loves and cares about all of his people, he has reasons for everything that happens, and maybe it was the Jews who stopped caring about God rather than the other way around. There's no doubt, the Jews lived a nightmare, and they may have been justified in thinking that God did not care about them but did he really not care? In Elie Wiesel's recollection of his experience during the Holocaust called "Night", Elie says that there was a point when he was stationed in some of the concentration camps when he had completely lost faith in God.

He no longer felt that God cared about him and his fellow Jews. In contrast to this, I think that God was really hurt when he saw what was happening to the people he had created. The Jews were going through so much pain and trauma and God loved them so much. The reason the Jews may have begun to believe that God was indifferent towards them was because their human minds justified their nightmare and oppression by believing that God had turned his back to them, that was the only way that they believed this could happen to them. That was how they could accept their fate without denouncing their beliefs. Instead of God not caring about his people he watched with pain and horror as he saw what happened to his beloved children God could have stopped all of the pain and suffering but he gave mankind the freedom of choice.

If he simply commanded us on what to do and how to behave we would simply be living robots walking through pointless lives. He may have let this happen because he gave everyone the freedom of choice, including Hitler and the Germans under him. God may have used this as some sort of lesson to get a point across that Genocide is wrong. Most people would now agree that this must never happen again, maybe that was God's objective.

Or what if one of his unknown reasons was to protect us from something worse later on down the road. In the video "Life is Beautiful" a father continuously lies to his son so as to protect him from the harsh reality of what was actually happening. He lied to his hungry son saying that it was all part of a game, if you whined about anything you would be disqualified. He ends up dying for his son and his wife.

He did this so that his son wouldn't be scared but also to save him. What if God was simply trying to save the Jews or all of us from something much worse that might have happened? God could have so many reasons for the holocaust but humans can't begin to try and understand Gods reasoning. In the bible it says that God will always be there for us, he will never leave our side. If the Jews truly believed this, what caused them to think that God was indifferent? The human body adapts to situations that occur around it, good or bad.

Maybe the Jews began to lie to themselves and dream of false hopes so that they wouldn't give up. They started to believe that since God didn't care about them, maybe they would survive by cheating and scavenging or sucking up to their enemies. Maybe they would be the one out the millions murdered that would be lucky and survive. It was they themselves that turned their back on God. All of the torture and suffering may have caused some illogical thinking to occur. They may have thought God didn't care about them but he really did, he loved them so much.

It was not God who was indifferent toward the Jews; it was rather the Jews who became indifferent towards God.