RE: Still a Christian - ask me questions/tell me about yourselves
November 26, 2017 at 3:30 pm
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2017 at 3:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:Bluntly speaking (and there was another question someone asked that this applies to as well), it doesn't matter whether or not I think it was wrong.Sure it does.
Quote:God delivers judgment to whom He will deliver judgment to in the way He will deliver judgment.Sure, super duper powerful..does what he wants the way he wants to. Don't exactly have to be a god for this..though, most terrestrial despots fit this description nicely...I'm guessing you have an opinion about the things they do?
Quote:Not for me to question because God knows more about what someone is truly guilty of than we do, which is why we aren't supposed to be judgmental in situations like this (see Matthew 7:1, and on a bit into the rest of the chapter).-and all the infants and ducks and mice of the world were -truly- guilty of something?
Quote:It's also hard to know when something is the result of God's judgment or sin in the world, which is why I can't stand when some Christians say natural disasters were meant to be judgment for some group of people or another. They have NO way of knowing that and have COMPLETELY missed the point of God being beyond us! Faith in God goes beyond believing in His existence - it means trusting that He's as good as He and the Bible says He is.That' a difficult sell, you must realize? Magic book busily exclaims "god is great!" as the smoke of burning flesh reaches the nostrils of the lord on high. It seems as if whatever you're talking about when you say "trust" isn't so much trust as it is a complete abdication of moral agency and common human decency. If you believe magic book...then you believe he did that horrible shit for the reasons given in magic book. All of it. If you don't...then you don't believe magic book.....kind of a rock and a hard place.
Quote:Sometimes that means seeing examples of God's judgment and taking a step back from what makes sense to us in the moment, or possibly long-term. Don't get me wrong, I've questioned God's judgment with stuff that you guys have brought up, which I don't think is wrong. What I'm applying more is not immediately saying that God is awful or not real because I don't understand why something happened or because I don't agree with it from my own, HIGHLY limited understanding. Which is really difficult, but also actually very freeing.O-kay...so, what stuff? That's what I'm wondering. Seeing as how you're on-board with the deeply disturbing temper tantrums..are you questioning the poly blend cloth stuff and -not- the ethnic cleansing?
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