does anyone feel as though the christian god, as portrayed by many christians and the bible, seems to use . .?

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people as his own little play things, action figures so to speak?

this questioned has spawned from a covorsation with someone else on answers about evolution.
the conversation we have had is why, if evolution is a farse, would god put the fossils on earth, she says to test our faith. i feel as though if this is true it is a pretty childish prank by the higher power. i do believe in a higher power, whether it be the christian god or not, but i also believe in evolution as a method by which this power made us.
so i can not imagine why god would do this to us, why does he/she feel the need to test our faith unless he just enjoys playing around with us.
this finally brings me to the question at hand. by christian belief fossils are just one example as to how god uses us as his personal leisure items.

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Answer 1

Yeah other joyous trickeries of God include

Deluging the planet.
Exterminating Sodom and Gomorrah
Killing Egypt's first born sons.
The WAGER with Satan over Job-- killing his whole family
-- for what reason???

Providing the Tree of Knowledge, saying NO Thou Shalt not Eat! when they didn't know right from wrong. Then letting Satan in there.

Making Satan when he knows what he will do.
Giving us so -called "Free-Will" when he knows what will happen.
Which is a contradiction in-itself.

Putting Hair IN my asshole, which serves absolutely no purpose.

Answer 2

As I understand it, God is supposed to be omnipotent, omniscient, and omni-benevolent, but that's easy enough to prove wrong, so let's discard one of those three. Okay, so we have an omnipotent deity who's all seeing, but who doesn't mind screwing with people. That seems to be what the Christians say: Here we have a deity who's primary dogma is "follow the faith." It seems that tiresome and needless tests of faith to avoid the disproportionate (from human standpoints anyway, or at least non-christian standpoint) punishment of hell are completely within reason for a bored, "lawful evil" entity.

Omnipotent and Omnibenevolent? Well that doesn't make sense, because he could just make himself omniscient. But if we assume that he's omnipotent except for a limitation of the ability to see the world, then that also follows from the bible: let's say the devil, who while weaker than god, is in his blind spot. The devil creates things to shake the faith of the earthlings from god. This obviously isn't an interpretation the Christian's would want, but it's a little more flattering than the previous example.

So how about Omniscient and Omnibenevolent? This is pretty much the same situation as the satan fiasco: God can't prevent the actions of the devil every time, so the devil can do whatever he wants. An extra factor about this scenario is that if God isn't omnipotent, perhaps he is capable of creating human life through evolution, and that evolution is not proof that god does not exist, merely that he did not generate humanity in the fashion that dogmatic sources describe.

Of course, the bible speaks of god creating humanity. Perhaps prior to this event, angels existed upon the earth, and upon their own destruction, they lost their celestine qualities and gained material qualities. And of course, angels weren't the ones made in gods image (the same as man supposedly) so there's no reason dinosaurs couldn't have been pre-human angels. It's just not exactly what Christianity wants, but I suppose these are "theoretical possibilities."

Answer 3

It isn't the bible that portrays God in such a way, but people who interpret it and the original Christians who left books out and have been rewriting it over the centuries. If you take a good hard look through all of history the Christian religion has been put out there as a regulator to enforce the will of the rich and holy. I think all of these arguements over whether or not God is real and whether or not fossils and the like were put out as a test of faith are the so-called Christians fighting to keep power over governments and people who are unwilling to question the churchs' higher-ups.

I personally believe that Jesus is the savior and that God exists, but I also think that the way most people talk of God is false and has other motives other than trying to keep their faith. For one, God created evolution in my mind, why are so many people who believe in the bible so affraid of admitting that? It even says in the bible that one day to him could be millions of years to us, so evolution fits in just fine with creationism. I also don't think he does test faith, but that the religious leaders of the world would have us believe it to be true. Catholics did make a pretty penny for a long time off of people in fear of their souls and modern day Churches seem to have similar motives.

I say for all who believe in a God or Goddess keep to the basic faith and love that a diety should be. Religion is what ruins faith, religious groups ruin the personal connection between men or women and their God. Religion is too corrupt for my liking.

Answer 4

I don't believe that God uses us as His play things, but I can see where you would get that idea. I think that a lot of times He tests our faith so that we can learn and grow and that we can know that we will be true. As far as dinosaurs go, why couldn't they have been put on the Earth long before man so that now we would have fossil fuels to use? God is all knowing and he knew that we would need some type of energy source to get us around before we know enough to develop some of the new energy sources that are coming out. The Bible does say that God created the world in 7 days but we don't know if His days are the same as ours. So I think dinosaurs came before man to give us fuel.

Answer 5

I am a christian and I think your right God does like to f**K with our heads. I mean think about it. You have unlimited power what else are you going to do for a good time. I like to think of it as we are God's ant farm. Sometimes he shakes us up. Some times he puts us in the freezer or oven. Besides the bible is not an exact time line, We know that it took God 6 days to create the earth. What we don't know is how long one of God's days is to us. It could be 20 million years to us. Plenty of time for Dino's to run around. The only thing we know for sure is there is a God. And who says he can't have a sense of humor. I mean really just look at the duck billed platypus.

Answer 6

A lot of people really don't have much imagination. Even though they try to believe in a god that is all wise and all powerful and all loving they really can't imagine a god that is much better than they are. So the best they can come up with is a petty, vindictive god that plays with "action figures."

Answer 7

Well I think you were going to win that evolution argument. But how's this: God pushed evolution along, since statistically, evolution doesn't have to take place. I think this is the premise behind Intelligent Design. So the various species evolved as seen in the fossil record, but only because God orchestrated the events that forced the best adapted to survive.

Answer 8

The greater question for Christians is why fear evolution?? If evolution is the scientific means that God used to produce life on this planet, so what. Why do Christians attempt to limit God's power??

For me this is no debate...why should there be, Christians proclaim that God created the Universe, therefore does it not stand to reason that all the science of the Universe is also God's creation.

God is not ambiguous....humans are....

Answer 9

To explain the way the world is, while at the same time explaining the existence of God, presents a problem. One ends up forcing oneself to admit to some peculiarities. Such as fossils. Either God did, in fact, put them there as a ruse for us to dig up, or He did not. If He did, he would have expected us to find them. So, if He exists, then we are, unfortunately, play toys.

Answer 10

Creation occurs because energy quarks explode
and interface with Laws Of Physics.
The design for life comes from Laws of Physics.
Everything is an energy form.
Energy forms have two stages:
particle and quantum.
All energy forms come from a restore point
and return to a restore point.
Time and space are not constants.
We don't come from our parents, we
come through them.

I hope this has been helpful

Answer 11

i know there are christians who don't believe in evolution at all- and there are some who believe it happened, but not with humans (why would we be exempt?)

for those who believe in NO evolution, think about domestication. animals or plants, that was an evolution.

in early mesoamerica, corn was little and sparse.the shed thier seeds and grew that way. now that we've domesticated it, its huge, and if not schucked by our hand, it would do nothing but rot.
it evolved to the point where it is completely dependant on us for suvival