2006-07-23 16:08:11 · 17 answers · asked by TommyTrouble 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If God exists, he doesn't interfere with human affairs.
You want proof? Okay, here's an experiment you can try at home:
Take a penny and flip it 1,000 times. How often will it turn up heads? Roughly 500 times.
Now, repeat the experiment while praying for the penny to turn up heads. How often will it be heads? Roughly 500 times.
Maybe you say God doesn't bother to influence the outcome because the outcome doesn't significantly affect any life. Okay, let's try it again with you praying for heads and smashing an ant for every tails. How often will it be heads? Roughly 500 times.
Maybe an ant's life is trivial and unimportant to God. Okay, lets try again and kill a cat for every tails. How often will it be heads? Roughly 500 times.
Maybe a cat's life is trivial to God. Okay, let's try it again and you punch your best friend in the face for every tails. How often will it be heads? Roughly 500 times.
Still not convinced that God doesn't interfere with human affairs? Okay, you can be a total sadist and repeat the experiment again while killing a random person for every tails. How often will it be heads? Roughly 500 times.
Face reality. If God exists, all he does is sit back and watch.
2006-07-23 16:28:15 · answer #1 · answered by scifiguy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Organized religions and even large groups of people organize around a tight clearly defined set of rules and beliefs. As times change and as the group grows larger, incorporating people from foriegn cultures, those rules and beliefs need to be shaped and interpreted. They become more and more vague and even contradictory (willy-nilly) over time.
2006-07-23 23:21:21 · answer #2 · answered by Jaycee 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's you definition of "Nilly-Willy"? God is specific enough for us to understand his word.
2006-07-23 23:11:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haha, it just seems that way from our point of view!
I'm reminded of a part of a song I once heard:
"A single thread in a tapestry
Though its color brightly shines,
Can never see its purpose
In the pattern of the grand design.
And the stone that sits on the very top
Of a mountain's mighty face,
Does it think it's more important
Than the stones that form the base?"
In order to see a pattern, you must be able to see enough of the picture. We're getting there though!
2006-07-23 23:14:03 · answer #4 · answered by sunflower_pyxie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we knew the answers to questions like that then we probably wouldn't have as many problems as we do. However, I don't believe he is. God gave everyone the "wonderful" power of free-will, and everyone loves that until something bad happens. It's just that classic cliche "you have to take the good with the bad", unfortunately.
2006-07-23 23:13:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that deep down everyone has an idea of how they should act, treat others, work etc. People create huge cosmic questions to justify their own bad actions/choices.
2006-07-23 23:11:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he can. Who can argue with God? Job 38.
2006-07-23 23:25:53 · answer #7 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is never changing. Circumstances change, but God remains the same.
2006-07-23 23:11:48 · answer #8 · answered by somebodywhocares 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He isn't hon, it's you. You are so filled with yourself that you simply do not see or understand truth when you hear it.
2006-07-23 23:11:32 · answer #9 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"willy-nilly"?
2006-07-23 23:23:42 · answer #10 · answered by luvnlvn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋