(October 11, 2019 at 1:26 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Wow, thanks for clearing that up. With all those holy texts and big books written by God one could easily get an impression that God had some sort of a contract with people to help them in exchange for faith, but now I see it's all just random fun for God.
And that's just the point, the truth is once a person has accepted the bible as the inspired word of of god, they are then justified (within that belief) to expect not to starve, to have clothing, and to be healed. Not only that, but their supposed god told them to pray for these things told them not to worry but seek first the kingdom of god and all these things would be added to them.
Their god then goes to great lengths to give an example of a corrupt judge who in the and gives in and gives the widow what she wants, and then goes on to say how much better god is, and how god will answer prayer.
The problem being it does not work, and this was becoming apparent to the church, so up sprang, unworthiness, and saying that god always answers prayer, but it's either, Yes, No, wait, Which of course is exactly the same as random chance. They then say that god uses other people to provide for them (except that does not work either) and so shift the burden from god, who made the promise to mankind, who did not make the promise, all the while skirting round the issue that god should have known that.
While the word apologetics does not mean to apologise (in fact the opposite) , it may as well do, there's a good reason why people get the word mixed up.
'Those who ask a lot of questions may seem stupid, but those who don't ask questions stay stupid'