(March 26, 2019 at 10:34 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(March 26, 2019 at 10:27 am)Drich Wrote: Best post ever, as it prooves everything I had to say! In that if you read those passages it show God to be giving, just look at how mat 7 starts:
7 “Continue to ask, and God will give to you. Continue to search, and you will find. Continue to knock, and the door will open for you. 8 Yes, whoever continues to ask will receive. Whoever continues to look will find. And whoever continues to knock will have the door opened for them.
9 “Do any of you have a son? If he asked for bread, would you give him a rock? 10 Or if he asked for a fish, would you give him a snake? Of course not! 11 You people are so bad, but you still know how to give good things to your children. So surely your heavenly Father will give good things to those who ask him.
How much more giving does God need to be to make you douche bags happy?
But God makes the requirement that he be asked. If a requirement is involved, God's behaviour is not altruistic.
Boru
Do you have a magical definition that differs from the dictionary definition of altruism I provided?
If you do not know here's the definition provided by google:
the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.
Now show me where being encouraged to ask in the definition above, disqualifies any altruistic activity.
I see an offer statng if you ask for help God will give it to you as a father who give his boy a loaf of bread rather than a stone. In a sense not only is God being altruistic in your selected passage he is extending his giving with the love of a father to a child.
What monster would twist that into something evil or burdensome?
