To all religious people?

Question

God cant be all powerful and all merciful at the same time.if he is all powerful and choses not to end evil then he cant be merciful.
if he is all merciful that means he cant be all powerful because he has no power to end evil
as a christian i believe in a god who is all merciful but who is weak just like me. this god becomes real to me, because he is the god whom jesus believed in as well.
did you get my point?

Answer 1

Yes, I get your point. However, I do not buy your arguments or your assertions. Since you claim to be a Christian, the rest of my answer will assume that perspective.

(1) For starters, you have things backwards. If God is all-powerful and chooses to end evil, then God isn't (all-)merciful, because ending all evil would mean the damnation or destruction of you and everyone else in the world. In that scenario, no mercy would be shown, yet you say that if God doesn't do this then God isn't merciful! It is the withholding of God's judgment on evil that is an act of mercy, not His execution of judgment.

(2) You assert the premise that God is all-merciful. Yet neither the Bible nor historic Christianity claims such an attribute for God. God is under no obligation of His character to show mercy to all, but shows mercy to whom He chooses to show mercy.

(3) Your argument that if God is all-merciful (and thus REQUIRED to withhold judgment from all) then He can't be all-powerful because He has no power to end evil, appears to be formally correct. However, since the premise is false as described in (2) above, then the conclusion does not follow.

(4) If God CHOOSES to have mercy on all (rather than being required to do so), then this would not negate His power. Thus, even if God would choose to act as if He was all-merciful, this would not imply that He does not have the power to do otherwise if He chooses, or that He is weak.

(5) The god whom you describe as "all-merciful" is not the God whom Jesus believed. In Matthew 25:31-46 Jesus said,
"But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left. . . . Then He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels. . . . These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." (NASB)

(6) The god whom you describe as "weak just like me" is not the God whom Jesus believed. In Matthew 19:24-26 Jesus said,
"Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." When the disciples heard this, they were very astonished and said, "Then who can be saved?" And looking at them Jesus said to them, "With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible." (NASB)

Answer 2

No, I don't see how power and mercy are connected. Mercy and justis I do see a connection. I also don't follow you how power has anything to do with God's choices. As A christian I don't try to make God fit into a box deciding what He is like and what attributes He has anymore than I would try to tell you what is in your personality. As soon as I limit God as you have done I would learn that He is far more than I had believed about Him. Your premise is way off base..

Answer 3

No. I don't follow your argument. Good cannot exist without its opposite - evil. If God destroyed all evil then there could be no good. There must also be a balance between justice and mercy. Mercy is for the repentant. Mercy cannot rob justice. If we choose to do evil we must be punished. If we have done evil, but wish to change our lives and do good then we can ask for God's mercy for forgiveness. If God was not capable of mercy then he could not be all powerful. If He was not all powerful then He could not extend the hand of mercy to us.

Answer 4

I dont get the point.. just because God is merciful doesn't mean that he's weak. If you dont have faith in christianity anymore... try looking into the Islamic definition of God(Allah).

Answer 5

i can see three parts to this question..

the first is whether God is all powerful: well, we all agree that it is God that created life, Earth, The Solar System,etc. Is it not true that our planet, and all others are just hanging in space? no strings attached, so to speak. there aren't any pillars or anything holding them up, yet, they have existed in space forever, we've never heard of a planet just falling out of place due to bad maintenance :) Is it not God, who created them, the one keeping them in their places, and keeping us from bumping into other planets? there's no gravity in space, so wouldn't it be possible that two planets just wandering about it space could eventually bump into eath other? but they don't, God IS powerful.

the second part is whether God is merciful..now, we all sin, right? no one can say they don't (else they'd be lying, which is a sin itself :P) so we all sin, feel guilty, ask God for forgiveness and swear never to be "bad" again. at that time we truly feel remorse, we don't intend on going back to that sin. but what actually happens? a couple days go by, and we're doing the same sin again! and the cycle repeats itself..Nevertheless, God forgives us each and every time. i may have not made this second part very clear, but my back is killing me from sitting infront of the computer for too long..but i hope u get my drift.

the third part i see is whether the two go together..well, i'm thinkin' : i don't see why they shouldn't, they go in parallel paths so they don't conflict with each other.

hope i helped :)

Answer 6

Since God is all powerful, He has the power to not share with us the Ultimate Truth at the moment, so, it is best to believe that our minds can't understand the works of God because they are intended to be so.
It is nothing to be sad about because it was God that built the sense of sadness and the eagerness to know into us in the first place

Answer 7

You state that you are a "Christian". A "Christian" is typically defined as someone who "follows Christ". "Following Christ" would entail believing in God, the Creator of all things. God is not weak and wimpy.

You are confusing "mercy" for "just". God is just. He will allow man to suffer the consequences of his actions. "Evil", comes from two places; the hearts of man and the heart of Satan. Both evolve from pride.

God can do anything; he won't squash all evil (at this time). That would entail destroying every man, woman and child on the earth and destroying Satan and all his evil cohorts. We would be back to "in the beginning God .."

If you will read your Bible you will discover all these things.

God created us and told us how to live. We rebel and go our own way and suffer the consequences for our rebellion. God is just. He will allow us to live in the circumstances of our own making. He will also lift us out of our struggle if we will turn to Him.

2Ch 7:14 and My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

You can choose to follow a "god" of your own making, but don't confuse yourself into thinking that you are following the God that Jesus knows. Our God is an awesome God!

Answer 8

No..you are totally wrong!!! You do not know Him at all!!! He is just, truth, loving, mercy.... may God be mercy upon you....

Answer 9

Fock all religious people especially the christians muslims and jews

Answer 10

only man do not have both but God more than what u can imagine