God does nothing.
Sometimes I think that all his work in the Old Testament was for the sake of completing the work Jesus had to do. After that, God took His hands off the wheel and now does nothing. I don't see Him at work in any facet of my life or others. All these people volunteering to help refugees and children in need? That didn't happen because God made it happen. It happened because people were moved by their own compassion to do something because God surely wasn't going to do anything Himself.
People who get well from illness, it isn't because God made them well. It's because a doctor had enough education and knowledge to give them a correct diagnosis and they just happened to be born in an era that had a treatment or cure for whatever ailed them.
God doesn't do anything. He just sits back and watches everything that everyone ever does. How many people get abused and hurt by others each and every single day with no one to save them? How many people starve and get sick with no medicine to reach them and no food to fill their stomachs. How many innocent children are harmed every single day with no one to save them? How many people die from sickness with nothing to comfort them or cure them. How many people take their own life because there was no one to save them? I'm not talking people who are momentarily out of their minds. I'm talking about people who have endured years and years and years of bad luck, illness, depression, anxiety, poverty; people who have had no joy for years and years of their life with no hope of reprieve and God doing nothing for them.
How many people have cried out to God to do something or anything at all and have had nothing but silence and desolation for years and years? How many have tried to do what is right in the wake of their never ending tragedy only to find that doing right either accomplishes nothing or makes everything worse? How many have simply given up and begged God to give them anything to help and God does nothing?
People can give all the testimony they want on here about their own experiences. I'm sure many Christians have been through dark times in their life. But none of their explanations can shed light on those who aren't saved or whose suffering has no meaning or lesson. It can't account for those who receive nothing after praying all their life, not for something specific, but for ANYTHING and God remains silent and does NOTHING.
I think people can believe that God exists because all of our reality cannot come from nothing. Something cannot come from nothing at all. But sometimes I don't think that everything in the Bible is true. There is SOME truth to it, but it was written by men who are not infallible. At the end of the day, I think humanity is some kind of creative experiment for God.
If our existence is so inconsequential compared to God then there really is no point to being alive. Life is meaningless unless God suddenly decides it is not. Moses, Adam, David, Isaiah, Ezekiel; God decided that their lives were going to mean something and so they did. Everyone else? Meaningless to God.
Ultimately, I am meaningless. God would not care if I died tomorrow. I probably wouldn't end up in Heaven. I'd end up in Hell or I'd end up not existing at all. And that is because God ultimately does not care about little me. My entire painful existence is nothing to God. He does not save me. He does not mend me. He does not comfort me. He does not do anything at all except watch. There really is no reason that anyone can come up with for God not doing something. Bound by the laws of the universe? God MADE the laws of the universe. If God wanted the break them He could. If God wanted to break them and not cause damage He could because He can do anything. But God does nothing.
Our thoughts, our feelings, our triumphs, our defeats, everything that we are, He knows about but He doesn't care about them. They mean nothing. I mean nothing to Him. We all mean absolutely nothing. Part of love is knowing that you mean something to someone and that someone means something to you. How can we love and worship a God for whom we as individuals mean nothing to? Either we can't or we have no choice.
Sometimes I think that all his work in the Old Testament was for the sake of completing the work Jesus had to do. After that, God took His hands off the wheel and now does nothing. I don't see Him at work in any facet of my life or others. All these people volunteering to help refugees and children in need? That didn't happen because God made it happen. It happened because people were moved by their own compassion to do something because God surely wasn't going to do anything Himself.
People who get well from illness, it isn't because God made them well. It's because a doctor had enough education and knowledge to give them a correct diagnosis and they just happened to be born in an era that had a treatment or cure for whatever ailed them.
God doesn't do anything. He just sits back and watches everything that everyone ever does. How many people get abused and hurt by others each and every single day with no one to save them? How many people starve and get sick with no medicine to reach them and no food to fill their stomachs. How many innocent children are harmed every single day with no one to save them? How many people die from sickness with nothing to comfort them or cure them. How many people take their own life because there was no one to save them? I'm not talking people who are momentarily out of their minds. I'm talking about people who have endured years and years and years of bad luck, illness, depression, anxiety, poverty; people who have had no joy for years and years of their life with no hope of reprieve and God doing nothing for them.
How many people have cried out to God to do something or anything at all and have had nothing but silence and desolation for years and years? How many have tried to do what is right in the wake of their never ending tragedy only to find that doing right either accomplishes nothing or makes everything worse? How many have simply given up and begged God to give them anything to help and God does nothing?
People can give all the testimony they want on here about their own experiences. I'm sure many Christians have been through dark times in their life. But none of their explanations can shed light on those who aren't saved or whose suffering has no meaning or lesson. It can't account for those who receive nothing after praying all their life, not for something specific, but for ANYTHING and God remains silent and does NOTHING.
I think people can believe that God exists because all of our reality cannot come from nothing. Something cannot come from nothing at all. But sometimes I don't think that everything in the Bible is true. There is SOME truth to it, but it was written by men who are not infallible. At the end of the day, I think humanity is some kind of creative experiment for God.
If our existence is so inconsequential compared to God then there really is no point to being alive. Life is meaningless unless God suddenly decides it is not. Moses, Adam, David, Isaiah, Ezekiel; God decided that their lives were going to mean something and so they did. Everyone else? Meaningless to God.
Ultimately, I am meaningless. God would not care if I died tomorrow. I probably wouldn't end up in Heaven. I'd end up in Hell or I'd end up not existing at all. And that is because God ultimately does not care about little me. My entire painful existence is nothing to God. He does not save me. He does not mend me. He does not comfort me. He does not do anything at all except watch. There really is no reason that anyone can come up with for God not doing something. Bound by the laws of the universe? God MADE the laws of the universe. If God wanted the break them He could. If God wanted to break them and not cause damage He could because He can do anything. But God does nothing.
Our thoughts, our feelings, our triumphs, our defeats, everything that we are, He knows about but He doesn't care about them. They mean nothing. I mean nothing to Him. We all mean absolutely nothing. Part of love is knowing that you mean something to someone and that someone means something to you. How can we love and worship a God for whom we as individuals mean nothing to? Either we can't or we have no choice.
