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You'll have a better handle on it after He intervenes in your own life.
Until then, my experiences can't help you much.
He has. When I've asked, then trusted.
I figured out that He told me what to ask for, then provided it,
but the whole process was a gift, anda miracle.
Are you in opposite-universe talking to Santa Claus?
But we've established that He doesn't intervene. So I'll be waiting for intervention in vain, just as all those miillions currently starving in Somalia will be waiting for His intervention in vain.
Please show me this data, or cite a source, which shows believers understanding of the past and the future helping them not killing themselves, as opposed to non-believers.
I don't recall our agreement.
I don't think you know any Somalians.
There are hungry people on your block that you're ignoring.
Let the unfit die so evolution can continue.
People like you have killed evolution.
It can be difficult if you kill the people God sends to help you.God's non-intervention policy.
I hate doing this because reality tends to kill conversations with non-believers.
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But we've established that God is non-interventionist. The phenomenal amount of pain, suffering and cruelty in the world carries on without God raising a finger. That is not disputed. So why does anyone imagine God is the least bit concerned about them when, as can be shown, He has never intervened to help anyone else?
You really need to dig into the Bible.
God is intimately involved in the affairs of men so if you think 'we've established that God is non-interventionist' you're quite mistaken.
There is a phenomenal amount of pain, suffering and cruelty in the world but how can you think God has not raised a finger? He has sent His prophets, He has walked the earth as Jesus to teach us directly on how we should live, He has called His people to be a light in this world and He is always there for those who truly seek Him so your claim is very much disputed.
I hope you recognize the hypocrisy of carnal men. On the one hand they declare they don't need or want God in their lives yet when God grants their desires that He not intervene in their lives they curse Him because of the pain, suffering and cruelty that they themselves bring into the world. How can a loving God allow so much evil in the world? You should consider what it would mean for God to remove the evil doer from the world so the rest of mankind could live in peace. You might not even be able to muster enough people to have a bridge tournament. If God removed all evil doers from the world, it wouldn't be just the rapists, thieves or murderers; it would also be the fornicators, adulterers, liars, bearers of false witness, drunkards, the divorced (with the few exceptions that God does allow) and so forth. People want God to stop evil until its an evil they enjoy and then its 'keep your hands off, God'.
1. The Bible doesn't reduce suffering.
It's caused a fair bit, but that's another story.
2. Even if we take the Prophets at face value, they do nothing to alleviate suffering in the world
3. Man-made suffering accounts for only a small percentage of human sufferiing the world.
The vast majority, both now and throughout history, has been from disease (malaria being the number 1 killer), other illnesses (cancer etc) and environmental factors like famine. Whatever the cause of the suffering, God does nothing.
As for God doing nothing as you claim, God is under no obligation to aid those who disobey Him. He does consistantly and constantly aid those who do obey Him so if you're not seeing God's work in your life perhaps it is because of that 'do not enter' sign you've put up.
It's an option for everybody. That's not the name I use for Him.
But He's there all right.
There are a few prerequisites. In order for the request to be
not from ones ego, its better to pray for others. The more
actual, real need the other person has, the more likely you'll
be able to get your ego out of the way and see God work
results. Plus you have to give up trying, and just hand it
over to God. That's the ego thing again. It's quite hard.
But eventually you do the work of getting out of the way
and miracles happen right before your eyes.
Like the time I was driving in pouring rain and needed a
dry clearing to pull over and help a disabled person in
need. At the moment I "handed it over" a clearing appeared
and we stepped out of the van onto dry ground.
You would say the clearing was there the whole time.
But only I know the timing that took place in the
dialog in my head. To anybody else, it's was just "good fortune."
Some may live in the world of fortune cookies, while I live in opposite-world with God.
So according to you He only helps those who deserve His help, yes?
If you were familiar with God's word in the Bible you would know the answer to that. If you're not familiar with God's word in the Bible I would hope you would compare whatever I might say about who God helps with what the Bible says. And what I've said is that God is under no obligation to help those who do not obey Him and, ONCE AGAIN, if you were familiar with the Bible NONE of us 'deserve' God's help as we all have sinned but yes, God does smile upon His adopted children and as a good Father provides for us.
So that's a yes then, with all the problems for you that that answer involves.
Sigh (I said check the Bible, you'll find the answer in the Bible and you got the answer wrong).
He makes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
And then He sits back and ignores everything that happens. You won't find any evidence to the contrary. When you are next scared witless, remember that.
My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to always be ready, no matter when it may overtake me.
-Stonewall Jacson
God does not give us the spirit of fear British Bulldog. I am at peace no matter what comes be it violence, poverty or death because I know the Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want.
I hate doing this because reality tends to kill conversations with non-believers.
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