(August 30, 2015 at 2:06 pm)Cecelia Wrote: That's one thing that gets on my nerves a lot. Some Christians expect you to give god credit for everything.
Got a job? God helped!
Found your keys? God helped!
Lost weight? That was god!
Won a football game? you guessed it! God did it.
Something bad happens though, and it's not god's fault. Malaria? Not god's fault. Starvation? Not god's fault. Apparently he has time to help people find their keys, make dresses go on sale, and tell people which car to buy, but not enough time to prevent hunger. He's much like his followers in that way.
If god wants all this credit, then he should expect to be tested before he gets ANY of the credit.
It always seemed so simple to me to reevaluate these propositions in a different way:
Got a job? What about the person that didn't and possibly needed one more than you?
Found your keys? How about if god improved your brain to where you don't forget where you put them in the first place?
Lost weight? If I ate at a pizza buffet and didn't exercise perhaps.....
Won a football game? What about everyone wanting the other team to win?
This silliness was prevalent in the church I went to, I just didn't want to think this way, it seemed too childish -and biased.
This was what slowly drove a wedge between me and those that thought like this.
Using the supernatural to explain events in your life is a failure of the intellect to comprehend the world around you. -The Inquisition
