Why would God?

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Let me try and explain myself better. First God does know all things, that doesn't mean everyone will know correctly all of His word. Everyone can read God's word and get a surface understanding of it, however one needs to have a relationship with God and the willingness to accept what God reveals in His word, not what we want to hear, but what God reveals. The Bible was written so those who seek God can find Him without having a greater understanding about God and His will ie. the NT and salvation. Once a person comes to God through Jesus Christ and they desire that greater understanding, God will reveal things that can't be understood through reading it without God's direction. Like I said before, there are many Christians that have a personal agenda for what God's will means, one that will fit their life style, they do not want to surrender to the greater plan God has for their life, or they believe they know God's will before God teaches them. So you see some Christians do get the big head within the church and try and run their part of it by their own desires instead of first asking God what He wants them to accomplish in His will. So to put it in simple terms, many of the things people hear from Christians, are what they say God wants, without ever consulting God, in other words they do not get far below the surface meaning of God's word themselves.


I see things through God's eyes because He has taught me through His word, I wasn't talking just about nature, mostly life. Science has taught us a lot about nature, it's my belief that they got the theory of evolution wrong, they took natural selection to the extreme, an extreme that doesn't make sense. I am seeing things He wants me to see, oh I'm sure I bring my opinion into what God says at times, I'm not perfect. When something goes against God's word I appose it, I'm sure there are many things in God's word that I accept, such as natural selection. Natural selection isn't in scripture, yet it doesn't go against what God's word teaches. You do the same things as others here do, you assume I assume if it's not in the Bible it's not real and that's just not the way it is.


I have questioned God about what's in the Bible, why, because I wanted to know what the meaning of certain things were, what I was being taught or had decided for myself just didn't make sense, so I asked God and not other people.
God answers that through the scriptures, He says He was not created, He says He as always existed. No one could understand this especially during the times the word of God was being written, so why should He even try to explain how that is possible.
I haven't deluded my self about life, I know God to be perfectly truthful to me, so why should I doubt He did as He said and created all things. I do not need to be concerned about how life came into existence, I know this, I do like learning about how life works. As far as pregnancy is concerned, the DNA is already there to instruct the development.


Okay let's come to an understanding, if you are not going to show me the Bible is misinterpreted you need to accept it is. I'm sure you are going on what nonbelievers have shown you or the biased information from the internet. Misinterpretation has be argued here many times and nothing has been shown to be misinterpreted. Sure there are a few words we do not know the exact meaning of, but there are many very intelligent people who have translated scriptures and have been able to piece together a probable meaning. Do you know the standards that were set forward before the newest translation were published, if not you should look into it.
I've never seen a man walk on water either, but I know God did, remember when I said God can make His creation work for His will. I also gave you a verse that said, "nothing is impossible for God."
You mean to say you're not impressed by a book that has never needed to change, I see the beauty in that.


I'm glad you have these questions and hope you continue to ask, but it seems that everything I've said so far has been rejected by you, please keep the questions coming. I want guarantee I can always give you an answer but, I will try.


God put people into my life that started praying for me and God went to work in my life by doing nothing. What I mean by nothing He removed His grace from my life and I was alone to deal with the world. I was felling at everything badly, even my marriage looked hopeless. I knew God was working on me in this way, so I came back to Him and turned my life over to Him and immediately my life began to change for the better. Quite smoking, drinking, drugs and all the rest that was tearing my life apart. All at once, no I'll do one at a time but all of them at one time. You may believe drinking and drugs are generic, I disagree completely, I've lost friends to these things and seen enough lives ruined to fill a large neighborhood.
For those who know how to use prayer they can unleash the great and loving power of God, I'm so thankful for those who decided to work in God's will for me.



No, not at all, there is the basics that bring salvation and most but not all denominations hold to these basics, from there many different ideas have formed over 2000 years, many wrong and many correct. The finial judgement as to who goes to heaven is God's, and that judgement is based on one's relationship with Jesus.





I reread it and am not sure why it confuses you, please explain?


These are questions most Christians turn a blind eye to, however those are some of the things I questioned God about. Like I said I got an answer to them, an answer that goes deep below the surface, something I could not have understand without having a personal relationship with God ie. Jesus.

GC

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I see those things, but even some of the repent or else situations were made clear they would happen, so how did God know they wouldn't repent. Revelation is full of prophecy, unless one believes it's already finished, personally I do not. Israel has been re-established and this was an OT prophecy, I know you could say that God made it happen and I would agree, however God must have foreseen the reason for the re-establishment.

GC

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Ok, I think I made a connection here. I'm going to look at this in a different point of view.

First: God gave us free will. Free will has caused us to sin. So "Free will" = "Sin" ? To get rid of sin and be forgiven we must surrender to god, and ask for forgiveness, right? If so then we are giving up our free will...

Yes God gave us free will, yet free will did not cause us to sin, if you would read the scriptures you would see pride was the cause for sin, self pride. We do need to surrender to God by giving up our self pride, until we can do that we can't ask for forgiveness, forgiveness come through repentance and repentance is giving up self pride. No we do not ever give up our free will, God would not have it like that.

Next, If I'm going to hell and going to suffer for eternity then others will have eternal happiness in heaven. But that can't be possible, god would have to take away free will. My family in heaven will be eternally sad because I am in hell.

No, your family will understand God's justice, as scripture says, there will be no more sorrows nor tears in heaven. If you go to hell it will be of your own choice and in hell you will have the freedom to continue your hatred for God, everyone keeps their free will.

Lastly: Thank you for helping me and giving me info. I have been doing lots of research because of the things you have said. Unfortunately some of what you have said does not make complete sense to me. I love figuring things out, mostly on my own. I do this by observing and analyzing. I also like looking at things in a Psychological way, guess that's why I'm really good with animal behavior.

I hope you will continue looking and I will always try and give you answers to questions, if you're still confused just ask. I can only give you answers that I understand, God's the only one who can give you those answers that can satisfy.

So base on what you have told me,about how you can see god... I can fully believe in Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca . They created the world. They and the others gods help us all. Like Tonatiuh, which is the god of our sun. How else could this fire call of energy just be there. I also believe in Xochiquetzal, I can feel the love this goddess gives us, and see the flowers she has created. And so on(yes these are real).

How is it that other gods can exist when God says there are no other gods besides me, the creator of the universe and the One who has always been should know, right? If these gods exist why have they never come to me and ask me to believe in them, why did they not give up a sacrifice to save me from my sin.

See, no one can be 100% on creation. There are so many dam stories about creation and life. So much stuff people believe to be true because it is written down. You believe this because you have hope, and a subconscious fear of hell. You find parallels in your life and convince yourself of a reality from a book. A book that was written by a human, claim to get answers from a god. He saw life and made his own conclusion and story for it, just as all the others did for their god(s) and creation stories.

The first problem with you assumption, is that only one person wrote the Bible, there have been many authors, before making assumptions about the Bible you should first understand some of the basics about it. There is One who's responsible for the Bible, God.
I'm 100% sure that God created the universe, absolutely no doubts.

I'm not telling you to stop believing, you seem to have had a ruff time with life and are using this book to get you though it(life in general).

Asking me to stop believing would be futile, to give up what I know for sure would be stupid of me. Your mistake is that you think I believe in a book to get me through life, you could not be farther from the truth, God is who gets me through life and I find God's solutions in His word, the Bible is an instruction book that God has given to us. I have had rough patches in my life, but far from what many others have experienced so I consider myself fortunate and well looked after by God.

I'm asking you to come back to reality for a bit and not be blind to the other possibility. To stop and see the world for yourself. I have looked at Buddhism and have seen that you can go though life and be happy without a god. I'm not Buddhist but the information I can get from it, and observing the world, and what you have said to me, I have found more to life and figured out things to help me better mine. It is a great power of wishful thinking. I'm trying to see things as a whole and not a part. All these stories seem to have something that off or illogical. People did/do whole heartily believe in these stories of creation. They feel the same way, that they are right, in the Muslim as you do about your god. Now you both can't be right, can you?

I've lived in the world, actually many years without trusting God for anything, I thought things were fine and believed I knew the truth about life. Then I came to God through Christ and found how wrong I was, life as a greater meaning to me now and I live for others not just myself, being part of God's plan is an honor not a burden, most can't see this but it's true. We can make a burden of anything when things do not please us, in Christianity as long as we will serve God first, which means serving others before ourselves, we will have less time to worry about ourselves and our petty problems.

Wow now after all this I think I'm going from a 5 to a 6 on the Dawkins scale...

Backing up in life has never solved a thing, and when God is call to us backing up only makes things more difficult. I know you do not understand this hopefully on day you will. If Dawkins was so sure of himself then why did he find the need to attack Christianity, why didn't he just keep up promoting evolution. If he was so sure that Christianity was wrong why would he find it a threat to himself, I've seen his talks and he was self promoting, he never cared for others, it's as plain as the nose on my face. Even if I were an believer in evolution I still would find a man like him repulsive at best, his hatred for Christianity was obvious, on things for sure he now knows the truth, one way or the other.

GC