where do you stand ?

Question

Most people today think only of doing what please them or their families,not what pleases God. Particularly do many love what God condemns,including forncation,adultery,drunkenness,drug abuse and other so-called pleasures.Even pleasures that,in themselves,can be wholesome are put ahead of any effort to learn about God and serve him.

Answer 1

I'm starting to realize that there are more people following God out there than I thought, but you're right, plenty of people are still doing self-serving things. I also think that, having gone through a lot with God lately, that it can definitely be a struggle to walk with God, that's why we have our whole lives to work on getting better at it. Of course I believe that everyone needs to seek God and follow Him, but even after you've accepted Him into your heart, it can be difficult.

Answer 2

I think God should always come first,sometimes people get into worldly things even christians, we are made up of the flesh which is our bodies, the mind which controls, and the spirit, if we believe the spirit always is that little voice telling you to right,the spirit also is the thing that tugs at when you are sorrowful from people hurting, the spirit does alot to keep us on the right track but somtimes life seems so unbearable we don't listen our minds are telling us to fix it and fast or do this or else we try to fix it without putting it in God's hands, if we all were to follow the way of the Lord and stop trusting in other people and ourselves all the things we go through would be eliminated, the world would be a better place

Answer 3

How sure are you that God actually condemns anything.

Just because someone told you He does, does not make it true.

Think about it, if God did not want us to do something why would the option even be open to us.

Would God seriously be trying to trick us.

God provides opportunities for us to learn by making choices with regard to the situations we are confronted with.

Some of these choices will have positive outcomes; others will produce negative consequences. Either way we can learn from our choices.

This was Gods intent in providing these options to us. He knew we could learn valuable lessons from our choices, be they positive or negative.

Just because some ignorant person has told you that some of these choices are sins does not make it true.

I assure you, God is not setting traps for you so He can judge you and send you to hell. This is religious nonsense.

Answer 4

I don't really see a question here, but rather a statement that holds many truths.

Yes, anything can be put above service to God, therefore becoming evil. The kind and loving man who puts his golf game on Sundays above worshiping our Lord makes golf evil.

Even beyond that, the man or woman who worship regularly, yet puts the attainment of wealth above loving their fellow man are embracing evil. These are the people who own or manage successful businesses, yet do not care for their employees by offering job security, affordable health insurance, sick leave, bereavement leave, or reasonable work schedules that allow time for worship. These people look very successful, yet they are involved in worshiping money rather than following the teachings of Christ.

Any activity that comes between us and Christ becomes evil.

Santa Fe

Answer 5

You say "not what pleases God." However, there are a wide variety of Gods in, or to be more precise above, this world. Some, in example the ancient Roman Dionysus, are rather well known for just such behaviors. Others, such as the traditional Judeo-Christian God, which I can only assume you refer to, would probably frown on such behaviors.

What do I say? I say do what you want. There's no way to know who's right until you die anyway, and most religions offer methods of repenance to right your wrongs.

Answer 6

No i do not believe so. I think many people follow the rules of God. Some more than others. But then those people are the ones that will have to answer to God on judgment day.

Answer 7

The truth lies in your horoscope! You should study astrology for answers to your strange question! God has made this clear!

See the following verses:

Genesis 1:14
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons.

Judges 5:20
The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

Matthew 2:1-2
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.

Luke 21:25
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars.

Answer 8

Why should we listen to a book that written over hundred of years and so many versions? The Bible is good, yet should we believe in it wholefully? I mean there are too many versions, King James version, Mormon Version, Anglican Church Version, Jehovah's witness etc, etc, etc. If you want to believe in God, then believe in God, not what DEAD people had written over several hundred years. You have to make your own choice over what is good or bad, not what is written.
Of course you also have to look at laws, just because it is written by human doesn't mean it should not be followed, after all being a good person who believes in God requires you to obey.

Answer 9

Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

People need to walk in the Spirit, and not give into the desires of the flesh which those desires come from satan.
I am a Christian who draws strengthe from Jesus every day. The closer you are to Jesus, the less you are who you started out to be, and the more you become who Jesus knows you can be in HIm.

Answer 10

Nowhere in the 10 commandments do I remember reading " Put God before thy family". It says "I am the Lord your God. You shall have no other GODS before me." There is no reason that you cannot put your family first and still lead a life totally devoted to God.