What does that even mean - "have a right to judge"? Do humans not have the God given ability & authority over their minds & hearts to make a judgement (i.e. form an opinion) about God their creator as he is presented by various persons & religions (Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, Calvinists, JWs, etc), as to whether or not each view of God as described by various groups is good, bad or so-so? Yes, they do. Not only that, but every human being has (or will) exercise that ability & authority given by God to do exactly that, i.e. judge (form an opinion about) God. They must do so. They have no choice in the matter. So, yes, God created beings do have the God given right, in that sense, to judge God, their creator. What makes you think otherwise? Jesus Himself said, Why do you not of yourselves judge what is right (Lk.12:57). " Judge for yourselves:..." (1 Cor.11:13a). "Does not even nature itself teach you..." (1 Cor. 11:14).
If endless conscious torments were true, is God a monster?
1. So your theology groups people who accept the Christian Bible as the Word of God, but hold a different theology based on those same Scriptures than yours as equal to those who don't even accept our Bible as the Word of God--like muslims? Okay. I appreciate that, since I think a lot of people claim to believe the Bible but reject what Jesus Himself is quoted as saying in it. So, I would have to concur that not everyone who claims to believe in the God detailed in the Christian Bible are born again or walking in the Spirit (like we are told we must). Practicing dead religion means nothing to God apart from relationship with Him that motivates you. Agreed.
2. Wow, Luke 12:57 and 1 Cor 11:13-14 have absolutely nothing to do with giving you or anyone else the authority to judge God as a monster if He does something you don't like. satan twists Scripture for his own purposes, too! Remember?
So, here are the Scriptures that you pulled a few words out of in order to justify your right to judge God: (1 Cor 11:13-14): "Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered? Does not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man has long hair, it is a shame unto him?" (Luke 12:56-58): "You hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that you do not discern this time? Yes, and why even of yourselves judge you not what is right? When you go with your adversary to the magistrate, as you are in the way, give diligence that you may be delivered from him; lest he hale you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison."
Neither of those two sets of verses supports you judging God.
3. The more appropriate verses for you to cite would be Paul's discussion in Romans 9, except they go against your way of thinking. Paul says: "Who are you to reply against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him that formed it, 'why have You made me thus?' Has not the Potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another vessel unto dishonor?What if God, willing to show wrath, and to make His power known, endured with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy...." (Romans 9:20-23)
Why doesn't God have the right to do what He wants with what He created without that which He created telling Him that He did it all wrong?
Was it not God who placed a curse on all mankind when Adam disobeyed Him?
Was it not God who said this in Genesis 6:5-8, 13, 17: "And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him at His heart. And the LORD said: "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air, for it repents me that I have made them." But, Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.... 13: And God said to Noah:"The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold I will destroy them with the earth. 17 And, behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heave, and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with you will I make a covenant...."
And Noah's Ark was before the Mosaic Law. Yet, we are told this in Hebrews 10:28-31: "He that despised Moses' Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose you, shall he be thought worthy, who has trodden under foot the Blood of the Covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite unto the Spirit of Grace? For we know Him that has said: 'Vengeance belongs to Me, I will recompense,' says the Lord. And again, 'The Lord shall judge His people.' It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God." In Romans 1:18-32, Paul talks about the progressively negative consequences of rejecting the knowledge that leaves them "without excuse" according to Romans 1:20. These consequences include: "became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves wise they became fools (Rom 1:21-22).... Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves (Rom 1:24).... "For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the nature use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness....Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." (Rom 1:26-32)
Then consider a similar word spoken in 2 Thes 2:10-12: "And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the Truth, that they might be saved, and for this cause, God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the Truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
So, again, if satan is a being that was created by God (which he is, according to God) and satan is being "cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever", according to Rev 20:10, why is it preposterous that a man--who has been warned by God ahead of time--could be also? After all, God made a way for man to avoid it. He didn't make a way for satan to avoid the lake of fire. And, yet, some men laugh at God--who willingly allowed His beloved Son to be sacrificed for us--and continue to actively teach and preach against Him.
So, if you want to be found judging the only True and Living God and calling Him a monster. Just understand, you have been warned by one of His servants.
