Does God judge?

Question

Why do we assume that God is going to JUDGE someone? I thought that we are all his creations and that he already knows everything. If he knows what I am going to do and he created me, then why would he judge me? Does it not make more sense that God would want us to go through things to gather experiences?

And I would like to ask the question, If God is all good, then would not he have one negative bone in his body? If he does not, then he would not hurt us and cause us to be destroyed. He would not even be thinking in that aspect if he knew only good, right?

Wow, I was hoping to raise some awareness to these questions. I was hoping that some people would just ask the questions to themselves and look inside for the answers. That is how I found the aswers. I forget that there is a huge conditioning process that is incredibly difficult to break through. I wonder if anyone who has commented to far realizes that everything said was a repitition of something someone told them. All but one of them was. Wow. Who else thinks for themselves these days?

These answers suck!

Answer 1

God is inside ourselves so really we judge ourselves, BECAUSE GOD- THE ALMIGHTY does not judge or condemn...Do you get what I'm saying or not?We are all children 0f GOD so we will jot be punished...

Answer 2

God is the only one allowed to judge anyone. (In the dictionary, the word "judge" means "to form an opinion about through careful weighing of evidence and testing of premises.) And God created you with free will, and yes, he knows your whole life, but he didn't choose it for you. A pastor I once heard put it this way:

This morning my son came downstairs for breakfast before he left for school. But before he left, he hugged me and said "I love you, dad." That meant the world to me. Now, if I posessed powers that MADE my son love me, or I told him "You have to love me because I'm your father", then those words would not mean anything to me because they weren't his true feelings. God doesn't MAKE us love him, he gives us the choice, that way, when we show Him we do, he really knows it.

And to answer your second-like question, God can do no evil. God is not the one "hurting or destroying" us. That would be Satan. But God knows that allowing us to go through difficult things will keep us knowing that He is all-powerful and has control over everything. God is not hurting us, He is removing his hand and Satan is doing the horrible things we go through. And don't look at "God is removing his hand" as "Well, He's letting Satan hurt us!" .. Here's another analogy:

When a child gets spanked when he is younger, it hurts him, but he learns a valuable lesson that could save him so much grief later on. And I know someone is probably thinking "Yeah, but the parent is causing the harm, not removing their hand and letting someone else do it." But you've also got to remember... parents are not God.

Hope that helps!
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Answer 3

Well, God doesn't really judge us. The deal is, we are sinners, and God can't handle sin. He really can't take it, so we have to live apart from Him. This fact truly breaks his heart, but it's a fact both sides have to live with. The point is, the ones of us who have not accepted Jesus on judgement day, are still sinners, and can therefore not approach God, as they would not be able to handle all his glory without perishing. That's why God tries to wait as long as possible to cast judgement day. He wants as many of his children as possible to be saved, so that he can spend eternity with them. God doesn't have anything negative in his body. He is pure good. Satan, on the other hand, does. And Satan is alive and roaming the earth, and so he can spread quite a great deal of sorrows. God has a small handicap, being in heaven and everything... I hope I could help. :-)

Answer 4

God will not be directly judging. All judgement has been handed to The Christ, Jesus.
God does not know what you are going to do, untill you do it.
The only problem is, is that God knows conciously before we do that we are going to do something.
Remember, before Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, there was no evil, and no sin.
And even evil is over rated, because the knowlege is the key, and difference between evil, and good.
We only know good and evil because we are taught, and some is given to common sense.
But I degress,
We have what is called free will.
We choose our path, and when we consciously accept and act on that choice, our subconsciouse knew, therefore God knew.

Granted, all things exist because God allows it .
We choose how, or what we will do in this life.
We will answer for this.
I have lived as a truckdriver, a homeless man, a retired man, an ex felon, ex husband, exalcoholic, now dying of emphesema, and lord knows what else.
The very things that are killing me, also have their uses and even life saving uses as well.
Depend how we use them.
But it all is by my choosing.
God knew I was going to make mistakes in my life.
Because of these mistakes, the knowledge from that tree of knowledge of good and evil causes my body to die.
But There was another tree in that garden.
The tree of life.
And God said " Let us remove man from the garden, lest he eats of the tree of life, and lives forever."
God gave us his only begotten son, through the holy spirit".
( Just like Adam, except this time, The spirit came by flesh, instead of just a breath.)
Jesus the Christ.
Because of this, I am shown that even though there was a tree, and a law because of that tree,
Now I have permission to eat of the tree, thet was denied Adam, so many years ago.
Want to join me in lunch?

Answer 5

God judges and the bible says so.

He threw Adam and Eve out of Eden.

The turned Soddam and Gommoarah to ashes

He turned Lot's wife into a pillar of sand.

He killed most of the world in a flood.

He has a book of life and if your name is not in it, you go OUT into the lake of fire.

What keeps you from this?

Living a good life might. Look to God and Jesus, but remember there are NO warrantees expressed or implied.

Don't do things for rewards, do things because they are the right thing to do.

Make God proud of you.

Answer 6

It is appointed for every man once to die, and then the judgment. There is coming a judgment day when every person will be judged. You're right in that God is good, holy, righteous, perfect. He is also a just God. Even so..that day will come when the sheep and the goats will be separated. Those who know Jesus will enter heaven, those who do not will go to hell.

I don't mean disrespect to your opinion or point of view, but this day is surely not too far off. Please reconsider, or consider for the first time, who you say Jesus is.

Answer 7

Human logic may seem to make sense, but without knowing all there is to know, our logic, no matter how consistent, cannot fathom the nature or character of God.

That's why God gave us his law, that's why he sent His Son.

Your CHOICE is to accept the truth, or reject the truth. Accept and "put on" the righteousness of Jesus Christ or CHOOSE to accept the conclusions of your own logic and do what is right in your own eyes

But you should know, Prov 16:25 says: "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." KJV
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Answer 8

God does judge even though some people take it upon thereselves to judge other people.HE is not punishing us to hurt us but to let us know what's right and wrong. Have you ever heard the phrase "God works in mysterious ways.". He punishes us so we could be better people and show examples.

Answer 9

God IS good, and part of goodness is justice.

Some people seem to think that goodness means door-mat-ism. Like, folks I know who constantly "help" others out of self-created jams, only to thereby make it possible for those they "helped" to keep doing the same defeating crap. "Oh, but it's Christ's love, it's God's will." Whatever. God does not will us to stay on the dope while Mom bails us out of jail, doesn't press charges when we steal her jewelry and silverware to pawn, and basically just allows herself to be used, assaulted, abused, and so forth.

Part of goodness is justice. If there were no justice in THIS world, even, think of how it would be. You may as well place a sign over your door that says, "All I own is freely given to crack heads. Just break the window, enter, and take what you like!"

No, we are not supposed to "give" when our service leads to another's continual downfall. That is not love. That is bondage.

Part of God's love for us is his justice. Judging--when you are God--doesn't mean something negative and "bad." It just means justice. And while God knows what you are going to go through, he offers you--every moment--the chance out of sin, out of defeat, out of self-directed misery. You can choose whichever way you head.

God does not hurt us. WE hurt us. WE cause our own destruction. When we call on God, his power is there to overcome. When we don't call on God, all we have is our own measly power--for God will not help unless you WANT help...TRUE help. If you just want a way out of a jam so you can go get yourself into another similar one real soon, God won't help you kill yourself or destroy yourself. This is because he is good. In that he is good, he does not participate in our destruction. We are the authors of our destruction, not God. God is the author of our salvation.

Answer 10

I believe that if God made us in "his" image that means that "he" has to be both good and evil! If you believe in the bible then you are all screwed up any way because it says that God does judge but it also says that his son died for our sins, I would think that that would mean he doesn't have to!! I also believe that if anyone is going to that "he" is the only one who has that right and its not cause "hes" perfect its cause "he" made us!!!!