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The "Cruel" God
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I believe in a kind and loving God, the Creator of all there is.
The God of the Bible.
Deny Him at your peril.
In the O/T Gods' actions are questioned by todays atheists, but God built a nation using human strengths and weaknesses. The Jews. An amazing people with an amazing history, foretold in scripture.
Using human intervention in His nation building, God allowed ethnic cleansing and genocide, and indeed ordered it.
Should we judge God for this? Or should we trust in His higher majestic wisdom, as we ask our children to trust in us?
The God of the Bible.
Deny Him at your peril.
In the O/T Gods' actions are questioned by todays atheists, but God built a nation using human strengths and weaknesses. The Jews. An amazing people with an amazing history, foretold in scripture.
Using human intervention in His nation building, God allowed ethnic cleansing and genocide, and indeed ordered it.
Should we judge God for this? Or should we trust in His higher majestic wisdom, as we ask our children to trust in us?
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well if you put your trust into God, then He created those Muslims that you profess to hate.
It is a shame that people keep 'trusting' that there is an afterlife and all will be better there than trying to make the best out of this life.
As a prime example, you seem to believe that you are religious and you try to convert people to your religion.
But at the same time, you show disrespect for other people and profess hatred for them.
You are also selfish in your words against those more unfortunate that you.
Would be a much nicer world if people stopped thinking about the next life and concentrated on this one.
It is a shame that people keep 'trusting' that there is an afterlife and all will be better there than trying to make the best out of this life.
As a prime example, you seem to believe that you are religious and you try to convert people to your religion.
But at the same time, you show disrespect for other people and profess hatred for them.
You are also selfish in your words against those more unfortunate that you.
Would be a much nicer world if people stopped thinking about the next life and concentrated on this one.
Good morning Theland, you believe in a kind and loving God, and yet in the first few lines of your question you've told us to deny him at our peril? Bit of a contradiction isn't it.
Where is this higher, majestic wisdom you refer to? I see no evidence of it whatsoever. And yes, we should judge this God on his record. Loving he isn't - or wasn't - and how anyone can condone his actions, let alone worship and adore him, is beyond my comprehension.
What's this question doing here, anyway, Theland? Is R&S spreading its wings to reach a wider audience?
Where is this higher, majestic wisdom you refer to? I see no evidence of it whatsoever. And yes, we should judge this God on his record. Loving he isn't - or wasn't - and how anyone can condone his actions, let alone worship and adore him, is beyond my comprehension.
What's this question doing here, anyway, Theland? Is R&S spreading its wings to reach a wider audience?
When Corrie Ten Boom was a little girl, standing at the railway station, she asked her father a question about sex.
He asked her to carry his case on to the train. It was too heavy and she couldn't lift it. Her father said that the answer to her question was also too heavy for her to bear, but one day she would be strong enough to know the answer.
Doesn't that ring a bell or two?
Off to bed now. Nights. Speak later.
He asked her to carry his case on to the train. It was too heavy and she couldn't lift it. Her father said that the answer to her question was also too heavy for her to bear, but one day she would be strong enough to know the answer.
Doesn't that ring a bell or two?
Off to bed now. Nights. Speak later.
As I said - no respect for other people's view (in fact over 1/5th population of the globe).
By calling other religions names, all you are doing is showing childish, immature behaviour.
As Winston Churchill said, if you have to resort to insults, then you have already lost your argument.
Answerbank rules (as well as most people's morality) dictates that you treat others with respect.
You have shown that not only can you not respect the rules on AB, but you can't even act in a civilised manner.
This is (in my opinion) one of the main reasons that people no longer attend church - the hypocrisy of those who state that they practice it.
By calling other religions names, all you are doing is showing childish, immature behaviour.
As Winston Churchill said, if you have to resort to insults, then you have already lost your argument.
Answerbank rules (as well as most people's morality) dictates that you treat others with respect.
You have shown that not only can you not respect the rules on AB, but you can't even act in a civilised manner.
This is (in my opinion) one of the main reasons that people no longer attend church - the hypocrisy of those who state that they practice it.
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"I believe in a kind and loving God, the Creator of all there is."
Which religion is this drawn from, please? I don't recognise it.
"The God of the Bible."
Oh, ok. It was a joke.
"Deny Him at your peril."
Kind and loving, that's God. Mmm-mmm. Yessiree.
'Ahhhhh!' you say, 'But God is like a parent who tells their child not to chew razor blades because it will cut their mouth to pieces. It's not the parent's fault if the child disobeys, is it?'
'Ahhhhhhhhhh, no - ahhhhhhh back, with no returns, because that analogy is stupid. The parent didn't create razorblades and razorblades have a perfectly benign function. What would be a proper analogy would be if the parent had invented razorblades specifically to teach children a lesson about what happens if you disagree with Daddy, in which case, Daddy would be a violent psychopath who deserved no respect. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.'
"In the O/T Gods' actions are questioned by todays atheists, but God built a nation using human strengths and weaknesses."
Can you say 'non-sequiteur'? What does the first statement have to do with the second?
"The Jews. An amazing people with an amazing history, foretold in scripture."
Only in the most general terms. And, as Wizard points out above, wrongly.
"Using human intervention in His nation building, God allowed ethnic cleansing and genocide, and indeed ordered it."
Kind and loving...
"Should we judge God for this?"
Yes.
"Or should we trust in His higher majestic wisdom, as we ask our children to trust in us?"
I believe this has already been covered. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Which religion is this drawn from, please? I don't recognise it.
"The God of the Bible."
Oh, ok. It was a joke.
"Deny Him at your peril."
Kind and loving, that's God. Mmm-mmm. Yessiree.
'Ahhhhh!' you say, 'But God is like a parent who tells their child not to chew razor blades because it will cut their mouth to pieces. It's not the parent's fault if the child disobeys, is it?'
'Ahhhhhhhhhh, no - ahhhhhhh back, with no returns, because that analogy is stupid. The parent didn't create razorblades and razorblades have a perfectly benign function. What would be a proper analogy would be if the parent had invented razorblades specifically to teach children a lesson about what happens if you disagree with Daddy, in which case, Daddy would be a violent psychopath who deserved no respect. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.'
"In the O/T Gods' actions are questioned by todays atheists, but God built a nation using human strengths and weaknesses."
Can you say 'non-sequiteur'? What does the first statement have to do with the second?
"The Jews. An amazing people with an amazing history, foretold in scripture."
Only in the most general terms. And, as Wizard points out above, wrongly.
"Using human intervention in His nation building, God allowed ethnic cleansing and genocide, and indeed ordered it."
Kind and loving...
"Should we judge God for this?"
Yes.
"Or should we trust in His higher majestic wisdom, as we ask our children to trust in us?"
I believe this has already been covered. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Hi Theland,
My views on a Cruel God, or, a Loving and merciful God.
First, if there really is a God, I think God and the Devol are one and the same.
In the Old Testament, God was a God of war, a cruel God who ordered and carried out punishments killings and conquests, to put it mildly.
Not forgetting, that man was put on this Earth for the sole purpose of worshipping and obeying him.
God is supposed to know and planned everything that has happened, and is going to happen, to the end of time, he can stop tradegies, wars etc, but doesn't, although in the Old Testament, he did personally intervene, for good or bad, in the interests of 'his people'
My views on a Cruel God, or, a Loving and merciful God.
First, if there really is a God, I think God and the Devol are one and the same.
In the Old Testament, God was a God of war, a cruel God who ordered and carried out punishments killings and conquests, to put it mildly.
Not forgetting, that man was put on this Earth for the sole purpose of worshipping and obeying him.
God is supposed to know and planned everything that has happened, and is going to happen, to the end of time, he can stop tradegies, wars etc, but doesn't, although in the Old Testament, he did personally intervene, for good or bad, in the interests of 'his people'
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