Like why does god have so many rules whats the point. And if you have one unforgiven sin you're doomed... Do you just pray every 5 minutes like what if you jus got killed before you could be forgiven and you did 1 sin. Idk.
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Yeah hi there Josh. It's not really like that so much. The gist is like this, that in the first place humans were totally free, they didn't know that good and evil can be used for their own benefit. That is the knowledge of good and evil. God commanded, humans understood this, that they should not use the knowledge of good and evil to satisfy their own appetites. But now we do. The whole world is inflicted by it. Everywhere you turn to look you will see that the knowledge of good and evil is used for personal gratification. It is normal. For example, a common business tactic is to undercut the opposition in order to eliminate their competition. Christianity acknowledges that this is the problem in the world, and that only by living in accordance with God's will, that life can sustain the conditions of paradise that God intended and that most of us dream of. That is known as heaven too, in some people's imagination. So Christianity is intended to be the discipline of living in accordance to God's direction. This is acknowledged as the best solution because He has the perfect ability to instruct. He does not have limitations as we do, of viewing creation from a single perspective. He also doesn't have greed that comes naturally to us who are born with nothing. He also has remarkably ultimate wisdom. Plus, He is pure love. The vision of God as it is revealed in Jesus Christ, is that He knows some people are like Esau, who when he was hungry, traded his inheritance for a bowl of soup. These are those of us who prefer to pursue riches, reputation, etc even though we know that it is against God's instruction to us (note: I am speaking of a personal, private conviction on our conscience, that something we do is against His will for us). In doing this, we become just as Adam and Eve became, hiding from God. We all know what this is like. It is described in John 3:19-21. But the ones who choose to live a Christian life are those who listen to God, who when they read the bible and know that what they are doing is not what He wants them to do, they decide to make a change. Sometimes this comes with difficulty, but in the end, it is their love for Him that wins over and above their love of the conflicting desires. What this leads to is a life of continual observance of one's own sin, a continual refinement of one's own understanding, the continual process of becoming more holy and like Jesus Christ. Jesus is anointed by God to lead us after a resurrection, because He has proven to be fully, perfectly submissive to God, and incorruptible. For this reason, those of us who take Him as our king have a hope that in the new world, He will rule a society without the corruption of sin. Yet, because the society consists of those who have chosen to live according to God's instruction, the whole world is redeemed from the effects of sin. We still have the knowledge of good and evil, but we are of the nature of Christ enough for Him to trust us to do the right thing. It is upon this basis of trust that He grants to us the right to eat of the fruit from the tree of life that God protected in Genesis 3:22. But keep in mind, we are not promised to have access again to the tree of life, but that He will give to eat the fruit from it, to those who are victorious over sin: Revelation 2:7. So just as St Paul described, that if he has a strong conscience and believes it is OK to eat meat, yet his brother has a weak conscience, then he will abstain from meat so to not make his brother to stumble. This means that some people are more sensitive to certain sins than others. What is a grievous sin that will severe one person's relationship to God might not be a sin to another person. For an example of this, look to the rich man who asked Jesus how to get to heaven. Remember that Jesus said it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven. He did not say this to mean that everyone should be poor. Remember that God blessed king Soloman with riches of the greatest reputation. The point is, that a man who likes to be rich has a characteristic that causes him to place wealth at the highest priority in their life. It will cause him to elevate wealth above his love for other people and above his love for God. So the simple message to answer your question is to pay attention to your relationship with God. When you become aware that some sin in your life is causing a loss of comfort in your salvation (eg, when you pray to Him, you cannot feel worthy to be called His friend), then you will know that He has instructed you and you have not obeyed, and that is sin. As soon as you confess to yourself and to Him that you accept this sin, and you agree to follow His instruction, you will know His forgiveness and you will have comfort with Him, to know He is your friend. If you have never experienced this before, then you will certainly be brought to tears the first time you know His love. I would bet too, it would not be the last time His love moves you to tears. I am wondering how to conclude this response to you, but how to do so in a way that isn't a holier-than-thou, like a "God bless you, I hope this helps".. You know? I couldn't just press send right there. How about if I offer to say a prayer with you, to ask God to move into your life and to help you to figure out the way to live to please Him, and to know the real truth of His plans. Is that something that you might like to join me with?
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It is a good idea to ask for forgiveness every night before you go to sleep. And to rest in the knowledge that while sin is awful, it is not larger than Jesus our Savior. Righteousness is a breast plate, however, so pursue it with Christ in mind, but remember to follow Jesus' law of love and not the Law of Moses that nobody can satisfy. And go to Services or the Mass if you are catholic.
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Repentance is definitely important. We are called to repent, and to pray often, Acts 20:21, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. I think at Judgment Day though, that God will look at the heart, and Judgment will be merciful and forgiving towards those that are merciful and forgiving, but that at a certain point we are only saved by grace, Matthew 6:14-15, Matthew 5:7, Jeremiah 17:10.
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It's important for God to point out all of the sins because he is holy.
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God is not over protective. In fact I feel God give us too many freedom at times.
Anyway, to answer your question:
God give all those rules initially to the Jews so they can protect themselves, i.e. they should not kill/steal/worship other God and many more.
And God almost never punish for some unforgiving sin, you can see the Jews violate the first rule in OT (i.e. no idols) most of time and God just sit there and watch, and apply actions much later.
Even Paul, who actively prosecute Christians, was forgiven, and became someone much more
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As a parent, the answer to the question makes a little more sense. I have specific rules which are set for my children. I'm sure that to a lot of their friends, I'm overbearing and/or way too strict. (I've even been called mean and unfair by a few of them.) Now, to set the record straight, I don't set down the rules because I don't want my kids to have fun, or because I'm mean or whatever the idea may be. They are in place to keep my kids safe. I establish rules which--if followed--will keep them alive, out of jail and trouble, and on their way to a good and happy future. It's no different with God. Jesus said that if we truly loved Him we would obey His commandments. And if we do love Him, and obey Him, we'll find that we have less problems in life and that we are spiritually protected. It comes down to trust. The reason why so many people have so many problems today is because they don't want to follow the rules which God established. (If you really want to see God's heart on the matter, read Isaiah 48:17-19.) Secondly, we will never truly be sinless in this life (see Romans 7:13-25 for a start). We're going to make mistakes on a daily basis. As believers, we have the assurance that the blood of Christ washes away all our sins. The best way to understand this is that as a believer, when God looks at you and I, He doesn't see our sinful nature--He sees Christ in us. This doesn't give us a license to sin; but it does give us the assurance that our life is secured safely in Christ. I would highly suggest you underline Colossians 3:1-3 in your Bible. They are good words to remember in a crisis of faith. God bless
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I think any human can have a lot of rules . . . about what you want to eat, how it is cooked, what you watch on TV, what sport you want to see or do, and on we could go, about all the rules you or anyone may have. And your rules can decide who you want as a friend, who you date or marry; and then you have your own rules about what you expect from your date or spouse and children. These are all rules. I am "betting" that you "might", then, have more of your own rules than you have read in the Bible. yes or no??
Whatever your rules might be, and however many they are . . . God's rules are better; He cares about us better than we care about our own selves. His rules will do us more good.
There are people who have God and Satan mixed up. Satan is the one who will totally condemn you for one sin. Also, Satanic people will dump people and look down on others, just because of one thing that does not conform to what those Satanic people want, with their rules. This is not how God is, but how Satan and conceited people are!!
Jesus on the cross prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." (in Luke 23:34) Even right while they were torturing and murdering and hating and cursing Jesus, already He was seeking forgiveness for those horrible people. So, I will offer you that it is not God who would dump you in hell for one sin. I ask, in case you know, how you got this idea that God would put you in hell for one sin.
I submit to God, all the time, as well as I do . . . not perfectly. But I am not just concerned about being judged for a sin, but most of all I pray for God to make me the way He desires for us to become like His Son Jesus. I am not busy with only not sinning or only not going to hell; but my attention is mainly to submitting to God . . . how He makes me submissive in His goodness and compassion and caring and sharing love. And as well as I am busy with this, I am not sinning
And we submit to how God rules us in His peace >"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)
What's wrong with a rule like this? > to do everything with God in His own peace.
So, when I sin and fail, I get homesick to get back into sweet and sensitive submission to God in His peace. I am like, I need how You correct me and restore me; I am not just asking for forgiveness, but correction so my character is more unable to sin, and so I am more real like Jesus in His love, and pleasing to our Father like Jesus is sweet-smelling to God
And I pray this for others and I know people who I would say are examples of this, for me and others.So - - - I offer to you, that God is mainly busy with changing us to become pleasing to Him like Jesus is; He is not first about judging people who do wrong things. Therefore, I might say, if your attention is mainly about rules and sins, then you need to download an upgrade of your attention.
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Be serious with me though bro. Some of his rules are insane... Like I remember one about not wearing something of two fabrics or something like that... Then being gay is not ok or something. I'm pretty sure there is more but you catch my drift ya know. Lol now that I read this whole thing it sounds funny like they way it's worded haha I'm tired..xD
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Bly smokes that a lot man
Holy smokes man that's a lot like dang. I'm sitting here you know 2 am school in 5 hours and then wam this giant thing. I'm all tired too haha. Prolly shouldn't be responding to these at this time. Anyways yeah. Your kinda stretching rule pretty far though my dude but I got you lol. Seem like a good guy idk. Anywhaz the problem is more on his rules dude. He got like 60 kajillion rules. No cursing I think, no gay stuff, no inappropriate content, or like lusting idk some crazy thing. Dude is on patrol like a hawk man. He be going rule crazy. Lol I should be asleep night man.
I think any human can have a lot of rules . . . about what you want to eat, how it is cooked, what you watch on TV, what sport you want to see or do, and on we could go, about all the rules you or anyone may have. And your rules can decide who you want as a friend, who you date or marry; and then you have your own rules about what you expect from your date or spouse and children. These are all rules. I am "betting" that you "might", then, have more of your own rules than you have read in the Bible. yes or no??
Whatever your rules might be, and however many they are . . . God's rules are better; He cares about us better than we care about our own selves. His rules will do us more good.
There are people who have God and Satan mixed up. Satan is the one who will totally condemn you for one sin. Also, Satanic people will dump people and look down on others, just because of one thing that does not conform to what those Satanic people want, with their rules. This is not how God is, but how Satan and conceited people are!!
Jesus on the cross prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." (in Luke 23:34) Even right while they were torturing and murdering and hating and cursing Jesus, already He was seeking forgiveness for those horrible people. So, I will offer you that it is not God who would dump you in hell for one sin. I ask, in case you know, how you got this idea that God would put you in hell for one sin.
I submit to God, all the time, as well as I do . . . not perfectly. But I am not just concerned about being judged for a sin, but most of all I pray for God to make me the way He desires for us to become like His Son Jesus. I am not busy with only not sinning or only not going to hell; but my attention is mainly to submitting to God . . . how He makes me submissive in His goodness and compassion and caring and sharing love. And as well as I am busy with this, I am not sinning
"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)
What's wrong with a rule like this? > to do everything with God in His own peace.
So, when I sin and fail, I get homesick to get back into sweet and sensitive submission to God in His peace. I am like, I need how You correct me and restore me; I am not just asking for forgiveness, but correction so my character is more unable to sin, and so I am more real like Jesus in His love, and pleasing to our Father like Jesus is sweet-smelling to God
So - - - I offer to you, that God is mainly busy with changing us to become pleasing to Him like Jesus is; He is not first about judging people who do wrong things. Therefore, I might say, if your attention is mainly about rules and sins, then you need to download an upgrade of your attention.
Holy smokes man that's a lot like dang. I'm sitting here you know 2 am school in 5 hours and then wam this giant thing. I'm all tired too haha. Prolly shouldn't be responding to these at this time. Anyways yeah. Your kinda stretching rule pretty far though my dude but I got you lol. Seem like a good guy idk. Anywhaz the problem is more on his rules dude. He got like 60 kajillion rules. No cursing I think, no gay stuff, no inappropriate content, or like lusting idk some crazy thing. Dude is on patrol like a hawk man. He be going rule crazy. Lol I should be asleep night man.
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The rules were written before there was a police force or judiciary.
If you were to pray every 5 minutes, commit one sin and die you would be unlikely to be condemned. It would depend what kind of sin, but it would have to be pretty bad to undo a lifetime of faithfulness.
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There are only 2 rules; love God and love your neighbour as yourself.
If we get those 2 right, the rest will follow.
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I think any human can have a lot of rules . . . about what you want to eat, how it is cooked, what you watch on TV, what sport you want to see or do, and on we could go, about all the rules you or anyone may have. And your rules can decide who you want as a friend, who you date or marry; and then you have your own rules about what you expect from your date or spouse and children. These are all rules. I am "betting" that you "might", then, have more of your own rules than you have read in the Bible. yes or no??
Whatever your rules might be, and however many they are . . . God's rules are better; He cares about us better than we care about our own selves. His rules will do us more good.
There are people who have God and Satan mixed up. Satan is the one who will totally condemn you for one sin. Also, Satanic people will dump people and look down on others, just because of one thing that does not conform to what those Satanic people want, with their rules. This is not how God is, but how Satan and conceited people are!!
Jesus on the cross prayed, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." (in Luke 23:34) Even right while they were torturing and murdering and hating and cursing Jesus, already He was seeking forgiveness for those horrible people. So, I will offer you that it is not God who would dump you in hell for one sin. I ask, in case you know, how you got this idea that God would put you in hell for one sin.
I submit to God, all the time, as well as I do . . . not perfectly. But I am not just concerned about being judged for a sin, but most of all I pray for God to make me the way He desires for us to become like His Son Jesus. I am not busy with only not sinning or only not going to hell; but my attention is mainly to submitting to God . . . how He makes me submissive in His goodness and compassion and caring and sharing love. And as well as I am busy with this, I am not sinning
"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)
What's wrong with a rule like this? > to do everything with God in His own peace.
So, when I sin and fail, I get homesick to get back into sweet and sensitive submission to God in His peace. I am like, I need how You correct me and restore me; I am not just asking for forgiveness, but correction so my character is more unable to sin, and so I am more real like Jesus in His love, and pleasing to our Father like Jesus is sweet-smelling to God
So - - - I offer to you, that God is mainly busy with changing us to become pleasing to Him like Jesus is; He is not first about judging people who do wrong things. Therefore, I might say, if your attention is mainly about rules and sins, then you need to download an upgrade of your attention.
Yo man I just noticed that download upgrade thing dude lol. Perfect timing man haha. I be reading throughout all thorough or whatever and I see that and like dang lol. Btw is cursing allowed on here? I wouldn't think so it's all late. Dude night man I'm serious.
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Eyy. Yoo I sweared I'd sleep but what the heck a lost now :O. Sup my fellow night owl. But I got you I got you.
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Yeah that's true. So like bible was the police. Like police 2.0 5thingy. Yeah but yeah I got you. That 1 sin idk cause all those be likes you know 1 sin is he'll. Idk some crazy thing you know people these days. Dude I'm just typing my mind right now lol. I should prolly stop. Alright for real though that'd be crazy praying every 5 minutes. I imagine some dude going insane or something. Anyways night for realmlol.
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Wow! excellent! and simple. I can write a lot; so I appreciate this, Doc.
Amen. Most of all is loving. And then you have the love meaning of each rule. God is coming from love, with every rule . . . somehow. I'll give you a couple of examples, below. But Catherine has given you the best part.
I think she is showing maturity, with this.
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Well, please do get some rest.
I'm reading you, now, in the morning. I was awake on my bed, for a while, then I saw some light in the morning sky and I thought it was later.
Well, in case you were asking to read something that you might not have thought of . . . lolololololololol
There was a time when you would have had no question that I was a bad dude!! Now . . . I'm improvable.
Understood . . . but other writers here have done well with that.
Ok, so now you are getting specific. These are things we do need to deal with. They can keep us from how God would have us loving. A lot of rules are design rules . . . like design football plays . . . with special strategy to get us away from our own self-destructive stuff, so we can get with God and caring about others as well as we care about ourselves. Different rules have different purposes.
Those things you listed are ones to help us get away from how we can misguide our own selves, and get into discovering how our Heavenly Father would guide us in peace and self-control and perfect love and satisfaction so better than the pleasure or relief we might feel by cursing and doing pleasure stuff. inappropriate contentography and sexual pleasure stuff don't come close to giving us the kind of peace and fulfillment we get in God's love.
We can't really have satisfaction with a lady, just by looking at her and using her. And we miss out on love by using people. So, God's no-no list is just a basic thing.
If you bring up a child, you "might" become a "hawk", about a lot of details your child needs to know about. What if you just let the child loose to guide himself or herself? The kid is going out in the swamp out back, getting eaten alive by mosquitos, stomping on bumble bee nests and getting stung. The child needs some rules about where not to go. And then the child needs to spend time with mature people so the child finds out where to go by growing there in love, not just being babysat by a TV and video games and toys and candy and other little foolish untrained creatures like other kids and pets.
Like this, God is our Father, our example through Jesus. The gospel means for us to be personally sharing with Him, so we can be saved and corrected and learn how to love.
Even if your kid doesn't go out in the back swamp, there are too many poisonous things in the house, the stove, don't fall into a bucket of water . . . lots of rules needed just to keep the child unhurt and alive, before we even get started in finding out how to be a sound minded person who knows how to love.
I hope you got some sleep, by now
You wrote this to Catherine; it is a good and simple way to understand the self-protection and self-survival rules. But the police might not spend much time with you helping you to find out how to love. But they can be the first to reach people in major need for help, and be so trusted by a widow or someone with a heart attack or a child at a fire or not cared for by drunk parents > a lot of people are totally missing police work; if you get into it, you need to appreciate how trusted you will be with very needy people, not only evil people and officers with problems.
I have been told police can have problems with domestic abuse and suicide; so I guess even the police themselves can miss who they can be and what they can do; and in order to do police stuff right, you will need to be strong in love so you can survive how even other officers can be abusive in their houses and rogues and incompetent and just bossy and power hungry supervisors; but there is a lot of trust you can feed on, but you need how Jesus makes us merciful and compassionate with even horrible people, or you can break down because of the evil in this world and even in police people.
Every Christian really growing is a cop, then, like this, except we don't use lethal force as our backup. We can overcome evil with God's good >
"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." (Romans 12:21)
This is a rule. God's rules are not all about no-no stuff.
Praying is different, with God, versus with religion where people can be feeling isolated and it's all on them. We are with each other, praying as family. Praying gets to be like always sharing with someone special to you. And because you feel each other, you don't need to talk everything out > you have deeper-than-words praying . . . it is communicating, feeling each other.
Jesus took a big first step for this, by coming here to this earth to reach us at our own level, but without sinning with us >
"For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin." (Hebrews 4:15)
So, Jesus is our Groom, not only our Judge and ruling King. And Jesus came here so He could go through what we go through, so that now He can feel for us, out of His own actual experience . . . though He already as God knew things. Now He has felt it, in a human body, like us. And now He can share with us the grace of love which made Him so able to handle things . . . love's way, being strong in emotions, and not a toy of fear and anger and conceit and unforgiveness and lusts which waste us and have us using people so we miss out on real love. Jesus did it all in love. And He who is God's own Son who was in Heaven was not conceited, but came to reach us.
This is shown by God making rules for us > how He is not uncaring, not conceited like who cares about us humans? He cares about us, instead of leaving us on our own like humans don't care what ants do to each other. You know what a woman in her house can do to ants; God is more than we are, more than how a woman is greater than ants in her house; yet, God cares for us. But we can't be like ants doing just anything!! There's gotta be rules.
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God does not really have that many rules. If you love God and love others you'll be fine.
You cannot sweat each little thing. God changes are hearts and minds over time.
You cannot sweat each little thing. God changes are hearts and minds over time.
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