Why continue making excuses for god?

[thinkfreelivefree]

I don't know.. you might want to hurry it up.. it will be obsolete by the time you write it down, if you wait that long.

God Bless

Key

Bah! The gospels were written decades after Jesus died and they're still considered relevant. Can't have timelessness without time!

 

[Key]

Bah! The gospels were written decades after Jesus died and they're still considered relevant. Can't have timelessness without time!

Agrreed. But there is also this whole thing with needing quality to prevent it from becoming obsolete.

God Bless

Key

 

[OldWiseGuy]

You should send money because of your compassion to help humanity and starving children, not because you are trying to glorify or make yourself look better in the eyes of the Lord.


edit---Has anybody looked into Humanism at all?

I don't do it to glorify God (or myself). I do it because I have a social, and humanitarian duty (part of agape) to do it. But because I help others God is glorified. (And I ain't no stinkin' humanist!)

 

[tapero]

Rather than to continue to respond ad infinitum to your posts, I'll just say the following:

Itjust comes down to that your god can do no wrong. You'll always find a way to justify his behavior and the awful things that exist in this world. You can't explain how a loving god would kill an innocent child, but very time you come up with a way to make god look good (or the devil look bad) and it's all justified.

I could never see myself living this way where whenever I'm faced with an issue about "why did god kill my mom or that little sweet girl with cancer" that I have to justify it somehow.

God takes credit for all that is good and the devil (or evil human beings) take the credit for all taht is bad. Interesting. Next time I buy something that is defective, I'll just blame it on the devil for influencing me to buy it, or better yet, blame myself for being too corrupted with sin to buy the right product.

I could justify all night long that I am in fact god, and that it's I that am responsible for all the good in this world, and that it is my sister who controls all the evil. I could just say I'm too lazy to cure the sick and feed the hungry, but I could if I wanted to. Could you prove otherwise, no. And I realize that I can't prove that your god doesn't exist either. So why would you believe one over the other?

Seriously, if you're feeling froggy, give it a try and prove that I'm not god.

Anything is possible when you believe in magic.

Hi, I haven't read any of this thread; just your op. I don't make excuses for God (as was your title.) What I don't understand, I don't understand, what I do, I do.

When one reads the whole bible we learn much about God, and nothing ever fails and this message is consistent; He is just, good, fair, righteous, etc, and much more.

That knowledge comes by reading about God. As well, as from being what I term born again (others call it different), but once we believe the Holy Spirit (God) indwells us and helps us in regards to truth and much more.

As without belief in Christ one reading the bible will not be able to grasp the heart truths given. Only can have an intellectual understanding, and spiritual things are spiritually discerned.

The above I stated about God are not excuses; they are truths.

Man tries to understand why God allowed or did certain things. But since man is the created and not the creator we can only make judgements based on our humanity; what we would or wouldn't do.

But since we are not God, again, we don't know the why's of all, if not given in scripture; and if given in scripture, and it seems offensive, since we don't have the mind of God, we can not grasp what His work is doing.

One other point I'd like to address.

The devil is not responsible for everything bad. All men also do bad (sin) all the time; and does it of his own free will, having nothing to do with satan.

satan is a liar and deciever.

blessings,
tapero

 

[MethodMan]

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