(February 2, 2018 at 7:18 am)Grandizer Wrote:(February 2, 2018 at 1:43 am)Godscreated Wrote: As usual you want it your way, well that isn't going to happen, God does what He does because He knows best.
GC
God is whatever you want him to be. That's the truth, isn't it?
Sure and the truth is maybe you should not be so demanding of god because he himself said he is not all powerful, he has limitations. Like Judges 1.19 "And the LORD was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron."
You clearly see that god can be stopped with chariots of iron, so that's why he "just stands there in the corner watching us" (as you put it) because he is waiting for us to come into situations where he can help us, like when we can't find the wallet and say a little prayer and he helps us find it and the car keys, but to expect him to heal sick children or stop wars or give more food for the starving is just too much. So please learn your Bible to see what god can and can't do.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
