He lets all this f**ked up s**t happen and still wants us to worship him?
But God made evil to begin with then... he made everything right?
or was evil here before God was?
oh yeah well remember Matthew 21:17?
"And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there."
think about that for a minute
Omg lol right?
he just observes while we make idiots of ourselves.... thats the best definition of free will ive ever heard! XD
How much better things would be if we would start taking more responsibility! Because, if the truth be told most of the events and circumstances in our life are generated by what WE think and do. Isn't it obvious that, all around the world, countless people avoid personal responsibility, or minimize it? When things go wrong, we tend to point the finger of blame at everybody else -- and especially at God. We may admit that human beings are responsible to a degree; but usually that means other human beings, rather than, say, oneself.
Unfortunately, when we reject personal responsibility, we also reject the truth about God. Can we be honest? Our war against responsibility is war on God, war on our fellow man. We attack those we blame with negative judgments -- "God is mean, and other people are mean" -- and we hold them hostage in our minds.
Inevitably, in our war against responsibility, God's reputation takes a beating. When bad things happen, we think that God is either wrongly doing them, or wrongly allowing them to be done. We resent God for the sorry state of the world we see.
Why doesn't God make people do the right thing? Why does God allow people to suffer? Why won't God let me succeed at this or that? Why is God always testing me?
All those questions assume that God has huge responsibility for the troubles of the world -- as well as huge responsibility for our own difficulties. So you see, the human penchant for blame -- that is, the desire to displace responsibility -- has a major effect on our view of God. Where the relationship to God is concerned, it is crucial to admit that negative views of God result directly from our reluctance to take responsibility for difficulties we and other humans create.
Trixy
I think that's an abdication of responsibility.
If things are within our mental and physical capacity to manage and control then we cannot blame another person if we have failed in our duty to properly manage and control. It is within our mental and physical capacity to keep out of the reach of small children medicinal drugs that we know to be potentially harmful. If we fail to do so and several children die as a result of our failure we cannot blame God of cruelty because He could have saved those children but did not.
Who's gonna stop him?
We think we are something, but we come far from Gods perfection in our choices daily, or wanting to be like Jesus, Gods Son.
Jesus said, "You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.…"
Rev 3:17
He does for those who are his. Jesus intercedes for us.
