Is God To Blame?

[goodlife]

Good thinking people everywhere ask this question. And with good reason, because for centuries the human family has suffered so much from horrible wars, food shortages, poverty, crime and disease. Injustice and oppression have caused a great amount of grief too. Quite often, innocent people suffer through no fault of their own. Is all of this proof that God does not care about what happens to us?

Is there any genuine hope for a better world, a world where people really enjoy life on earth to the full, free from all these troubles?

[fiveleaves]

I answered the Where does God get His morals from question in the thread about that subject.
For about the millionth time. yes I have read the Bible in its entirity.
Not sure how many more times I am going to have to answer that question

[naomi24]

Nailit asked if anyone on this thread has read the Bible. You weren’t on the thread when he asked the question.

[fiveleaves]

Naomi, He asks the same question repeatedly on many threads and I have answered him repeatedly.

[naomi24]

I know but you weren’t here when he asked this time. I think he finds it frustrating that people of religion ignore much of what’s there - and that I can understand.

[fiveleaves]

Naomi, If Nailit doesn't get the answer he wants, he says that no one has answered him. It gets extremely tiring, thread after thread.
YES I HAVE READ THE WHOLE BIBLE AND YES I BELIEVE GOD IS TOTALLY GOOD AND TOTALLY LOVING.End of

[naomi24]

No need to shout - or to respond if it makes you that angry.

[goodlife]

facebook_1657957496906_6953977761106993122.jpg"

There is no mistaking in it: If we want to be pleasing to our Creator, if we want to do that which is right by our fellowman, if we want to take the course that in the long run is the most rewarding, then we must take morals seriously. “Whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap.”​—Gal. 6:7.

If you read and understand the Bible, you will see that it is the nations around the Nation of Isreal. God told his people of the consequences. Anyway, at the end of the day youwill ALL know because the Bible was not written for nothing.

[Peter Pedant]

er Naomi I think you have to accept Five Leaves has read the Bible...
can you spare us another
foo you havent you know, I KNOW you havent !
lordy lordy

[Peter Pedant]

A lot didnt sound like Paul
and it asnt
the qote of Gal 6 - - 6and 7 is

A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

and you can also see:
you will see that it is the nations around the Nation of Israel. God told his people of the consequences.
is not a good summary of the verses....

[naomi24]

PP, I didn’t say he hadn’t. Shame you won’t spare us from your incessant claptrap.

[goodlife]

It just shows you need a modern day translation of the Bible, that is why many cannot understand it because of the old language. Todays language has changed so much that it gives it much better and clearer understanding.

[naomi24]

//It just shows you need a modern day translation of the Bible//

May I hazard a guess at what you'd suggest, Goodlife? A New World Translation? I've got one of those.

[nailit]

//It just shows you need a modern day translation of the Bible//
God's word needs a modern day translation????
Lol!
The God of the ENTIRE universe NEEDS men to translate his will for all mankind?
Seriously?
What planet are you on?
And who are you to decide what Gods word is???
And what his exact translation is?
Come to that who are your predecessors
to decide what goes in to the Bible and what is left out?
Who gave YOU the authority to decide what
is in the Bible and what isnt?

[mibn2cweus]

'God' doesn't exactly have a great track record for getting it right the first time.

[douglas9401]

He was actually a Jewish barbecue chef, and on the seventh day he roasted.

[nailit]

JW's....
reading a collection of religious writings (called the Bible) that was approved of by a PAGAN Roman emperor called Constantine since the 4th century and condemning pagans since the 1870's....

[nailit]

These people are beyond hope.
No reasoning with them, they are lost to their own delusions....

[goodlife]

Only reading, studying, and applying with understanding the Word of our God and Creator, we can better appreciate the directive of Revelation 1:3. Indeed, it is a message for our day. Under inspiration the apostle John writes: “Happy is he who reads aloud and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and who observe the things written in it; for the appointed time is near.”

[mibn2cweus]

//for the appointed time is near//

Whoops!

[goodlife]

Jehovah's Witnesses are a happy people. Whenever they are together, whether at a meeting, an assembly, or a social gathering, they are talking and laughing with one another. Why are they so happy? It is mainly because they know Jehovah, “the happy God.” They serve him and try to imitate him. (1 Timothy 1:11; Psalm 16:11) Jehovah is the Source of happiness, so he wants us to be happy, and he gives us many reasons to be joyful.​Ecclesiastes 3:12, 13.