I have answered questions about religion and God yet people cannot seem to accept the fact that God made rule for us to follow. When you break the rules intentionally, you will get punished for it. Do you really think God will change his laws just so you can fit on the description on who he will save?
2006-08-11 22:06:08 · 26 answers · asked by jeni_love_12 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
BTW, I'm not Jew alright?
2006-08-11 22:11:11 · update #1
You are right, but people have a hard time accepting this because they do not want to change their life style. If you get in the gutter, then you will pay with your life, and health. It is easy to just dive into sin, and waller around with the evil doers. It is hard to live a life of decency, love, accepting the fact that there is a God, and you must live according to His rules. People just have to learn the hard way, and most of the time, unless they are very very lucky, have to take their chances and suffer the conseqences. Are they happy. . . . no. Clean up your act, people, and get into the loving life that God gave you and be thankful to Him for it. Don't throw away your life.
2006-08-11 22:15:54 · answer #1 · answered by shardf 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I want to be honest with you. I don't believe all that you have written about God. But, I am a Christian. What I have found is that people believe what we want to believe, for the most part. Few people study the Bible. Many of those who say they do, in reality, only study what others have written about the Bible.
Others would study the Bible, but don't know how. I have to blame our churches for this. We are not teaching how to study the Bible. Instead, we are telling people what to believe. In other circles, this is called indoctrination. The United States Marine Corps and the United States Army both indoctrinate. The church, however, has the responsiblity to teach.
When we are told that we are wrong, we take it personally. We feel that we are being attacked. Instead, it should drive us to the Bible to prove to ourselves that we are right (at times, it will likely prove that we have been wrong.)
I have a Bible college degree. After being told what I believe by my professors for 4 years, I finally had the time to do my own studies. I learned that much of what I had been taught was true, but not all of it.
I do not write this to put you down. This is most certainly NOT my intent. I have learned that my statements alone mean little. But, when I include scripture and references, the statements become God's and people (Christians, anyway) cannot ignore that very easily. I'd like to suggest that, when you answer a question, give references from the Bible. The answer, then, becomes "the word of God about..." rather than "the word of (insert your name here) about..."
respectfully,
Terry
2006-08-12 08:18:12 · answer #2 · answered by Terry K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not discuss about religion, people do not accept others believes.
I am a believer, I do not follow religions. religions are directed by men. And I do not believe in men.
God made this world, Of course he made the rules too. If people want to follow the rules or not is their problem. God gave us free will... Well, I think people will always get consequences of any thing they do. If they do good things, they will get good consequences, if they do wrong or bad things the consequences are bad too.
I think with our actions we punish our selves. God Just look at you and think " If you follow my rules you would not suffer those really bad consequences, but you are following your free will... Let's see if next time you can do it better"
God is not a bad grumpy God. We are who make a mess of our lifes
2006-08-12 05:23:29 · answer #3 · answered by divacobian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moses went up the mount to start a bush on fire so that he could quickly make up laws for the ungodly below, as the bush faded with light he was most frustrated as he was only to write ten articles of common sense. The cold wind blew through his beard and as he ran down the mount he proclaimed *oddamn its cold up there! where in the he** is the wine and a woman to warm me up.
I am not sorry for the above because I can not believe that a vast majority of people still actually believe that a god made the rules.
He didn't. Man did! And man still continues to make laws,or is a god holding a seat in congress? I think not as congressmen are always bickering and fighting and taking bribes from constituents and lobbyists and giving themselves pay raises when they are not deserving of it(I digress). All of us were born with a conscience and common sense. We were not there when all of humanity were living pagan lives. But thank goodness that one brilliant illusionist of a man saw that order needed to had and that laws needed to drawn up to command order and order compliance of the law on a society that was self destructive and ignorant.
2006-08-12 07:20:14 · answer #4 · answered by BONES 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I accept the answer because I read the Bible and I can tell the truth from non-truth. There are too many people out there that make up their minds about God as they go. They think crazy thoughts and refuse to believe people when you give them evidence from the Word of God to back up what you believe. And they jump all over you when you give them Godly advice from the Bible.
This generation is a wicked and perverse generation. The delight in evil and call evil good, and good evil. They protect trees and cats & dogs, but kill innocent babies. They murder and rape and blame God for their actions. They hear the message of salvation and spit on it and I'm sure they are going to blame God when they go to hell. They blame God and Christians for everything. They protect pornography, homosexuality, abortion, and gay marriage and talk about being tolerant. And in the next breath they slam God or Christianity for saying something is wrong. Pornography is ruining marriages and degrades women, abortion kills millions of babies, and gay marriage is an abomination. They refuse to admit anything is wrong. The believe there is no right and wrong. They think if they don't believe in God, he can't judge them when they die. They think because they believe something they made up about God, God has to do it. And they think they will get in to Heaen by their merrit. They think God will let them in for bashing his Church, his name, and the salvation that he offers. Well, I hope he comes in our lifetime. I am ready. His judgement is fair and righteous. "He will judge the nations and all the peoples. And whoevers name is not found in the Lamb's book of life will be cast into the outer darkness where there will be weaping and gnashing of teeth." AMEN. :)
2006-08-12 05:23:28 · answer #5 · answered by blizgamer333 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's said that God knows how changeable the human heart ... and that God, will NEVER change. This leads me to believe that those who bend, break and create new rules, are in for quite a surprise when their time comes.
Personally, this is the exact reason I prefer to follow my native spirituality. I pray in the midst of God's natural creations as opposed to (with) those who create a god ... in their new rules.
I'm cool on Christ, and if my ancestors survived in the wilderness for thousands of years they must have been doing "something" right, in their relationship with God.
Actually, it's nice to have just a one on One relationship with my Creator. It's Peaceful and the "church" is very pretty ... specially in autumn when the leaves turn.
In the shifting light of Hope, may we all find our way.
2006-08-12 05:25:04 · answer #6 · answered by pickle head 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but the funny thing is different people will tell you that God made different rules and gave them a different book.
Some people will even read from the same book as yours and understand the rules differently - but still claim that they're the ones that God gave.
God certainly could have been much, much clearer about which rules to follow. If He wants to punish all those who don't believe and follow, He could have made it clear as day which rules are right and which rules are wrong.
You will claim it _is_ clear as day. But you will be wrong. It's a bunch of muddled information mixed in with 'allegory' and all nature of illogic. If God's rules are really as black-and-white as you perceive, then it's His fault - not ours - that not everyone is following them.
2006-08-12 05:14:02 · answer #7 · answered by XYZ 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I see such people like foolish gumblers .. they insist that GOD is not there .. for nothing to gain .. what if .. just what if GOD is there and will be waiting for them the second they would leave this life .. will they be able or got to have any access to argue the same they do in life ..
I would keep reminding and recalling others that GOD is there ... if GOD resque one single soul by you .. or through your little words is better for you abd for GOD than any other worship you may do to satisfy your lord .. so keep talking .. mentioning and paraying to GOD ..
2006-08-12 06:52:04 · answer #8 · answered by ohwaw 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By your reasoning, there are billions of people who will disagree with you because:
1. They are of other religions.
2. There are people who do not believe in any religion.
3. Even Christianity can't agree with itself, hence the many kinds of christians.
Which one of this is the one true religion? Ever considered that the god you believed in is wrong and the god some others believe in is true?
If you think this is impossible, why are you denying it? Are you aware that many others will also think thay you deserve to burn in hell according to their religious beliefs?
2006-08-12 05:24:21 · answer #9 · answered by Weilliam 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Free speech, and free opinions in yahoo answers so when you ask questions or see questions you're gonna get many different answers, and maybe not even the answer you're looking for.
Not everybody believes in God and for them to believe in god they have to feel god. Not all has opened their heart to allow god in.
That's their choice and it is their choice whether they can 'feel' gods rules like many of us believers can.
If it is the person sinning causing the punishment then who is really doing the punishing?
2006-08-12 05:16:57 · answer #10 · answered by WW 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋