but if I question him I damed?
2006-08-28 05:05:09 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
damn, I spelled(spelt) dam wrong.
2006-08-28 05:08:26 · update #1
please don't give me the death thing. jesus said ' let the dead take care of themselves '
2006-08-28 05:14:08 · update #2
daisy, I am not a vampire, someone else made that up, and I am offended that they used the name dracula.
2006-08-28 05:16:15 · update #3
me_too? what eyes?
2006-08-28 05:20:21 · update #4
I am blind to all.
2006-08-28 05:20:46 · update #5
If God is all knowing that means God knows everything. Not kind of knows or can predict it. God knows it...100%. It is written in stone. If I can't make a choice that will change what happens tomorrow, then I'm ruled by fate. If I am ruled by fate, I don't have freewill.
Therefore, if God is all knowing I cannot have freewill. How is it possible for God to have given us freewill if God is all knowing?
The best and most logical answer is that we do have freewill, it's just that God knows all the decisions that we will make before we make them. It doesn't mean we don't make choices it's just that God has known what they were going to be before God created the universe.
Here is the problem with that, if that is true it means that God knew exactly who was going to hell long before they were to be sent there, and long before God created the universe. If I go to hell, I go to hell because God created me knowing I would. If God truly loved me or cared about me then why would God create me just to send me to hell?
There could be only a few possible answers; one, God does not care at all; two, God doesn't know the future; and three, nobody will ever go to hell
If any one of these answers are correct, then God does not truly love me. If any religion proclaims that God does truly love me while at the same time threatening me with eternal damnation in hell for something that God knew I was going to do when God create me then that religion is based on a lie.
By the way of the three possible answers, I choose no one will ever go to hell. I am an agnostic theist. I affirm an inability to know about the non existence of a deity or deities and claim this inability leads me to a belief in a catagory of myth that includes soul and spirit.
2006-08-28 05:24:58 · answer #1 · answered by H.I. of the H.I. 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God gives the causes, and mankind makes a choice from the causes. If there is only one cause, there is no choice to make. If we had free will, then we would will that our futures be harmonious and perfect. But unfortunately we can't do that, as much as we would like to. God does have free will, and wills the paths and steps of each and every one of us. Even the choices that we make.....Pro.16:4 The LORD hath made all things for Himself: Yea,even the wicked for the day of evil...... Rom.9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?.... God is the potter, we are the vessels. some (vessels) are honorable, some are dishonorable. One day God will break and destroy the dishonorable..... But in Rev.21:5 Jesus say's, "Behold, I make all things new". Our carnal flesh and blood, and minds are damned. Rom. 3:23 For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God..... When the deciples asked Jesus in Matt. 19:25 "who then can be saved?", Jesus answered them in Matt.19:26 With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
2006-08-28 13:43:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God,Creator of curiousity and thoughts,enjoys the fact that we question Him.If you mean question His authority....by all means but just realize you are questioning because of the freewill He gave us.He understands what humans think and His eyes are burried deep into our souls because He created human beings and intensely guards us from the thing that would not allow us to question our existance or the wonders of a creators existance.He does not tolerate stupidity,nor a freewill being without freewill thoughts of his own.There is no such thing as damnation for being a human.
2006-08-28 13:14:29 · answer #3 · answered by unmovingasp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God did give us free will that's why we have made such a mess of things, and no you wouldn't, God wants us to question him only that way will we learn the truth, otherwise he would not have given us the free will in the place
2006-08-28 13:48:47 · answer #4 · answered by ringo711 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Matthew 7:7 - 11
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?
He wants you to seek Him. Sometimes that means questioning Him. But be open to hear the truth when you do question.
2006-08-28 12:10:51 · answer #5 · answered by ©2007 answers by missy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what it seems like.
"God says do what you wish, but make the wrong choice and you will be tortured for eternity in hell. That, sir, is not free will. It would be akin to a man telling his girlfriend, 'Do what you wish, but if you choose to leave me, I will track you down and blow your brains out.' When a man says this we call him a psychopath and cry out for his imprisonment/execution. When a god says the same, we call him loving and build churches in his honor."
- William C. Easttom II
2006-08-28 12:16:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, questioning is fine. I think God wants us to question Him because it gives HIm the opportunity to answer. It's really knowing the answer inside and out and then rejecting it that I think gets people damned.
BTW - vlad the impaler - you a vampire fan?
2006-08-28 12:12:42 · answer #7 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... Question him all you want. Ask him anything. You have the free will to serve him or not. Your choice decides your evenual fate. Would you rather your children serve you because you've programmed them like robots or because they love you? God feels the same.
And please don't be turned off of true Christianity because of the common belief in hellfire. It isn't taught in the Bible and doesn't exist. It was invented by apostate Christianity to scare people into doing what the church told them.
2006-08-28 12:11:50 · answer #8 · answered by Epitome_inc 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
questioning god has been one of the first uses of free will.
abraham thought fire was god but it died, then he thought sun was god but it settled then he thought mmon was go but it vanished in light. so questioning is never dammed.
when one starts making statements without seeking knowledge then it becomes demonnizing. asking questions with curiosity is always allowed but saying arrogant things without purpose of seeking truth then one is dammed like satan. he was highest angel and said he is better than humans being made of fire so he was dammed
2006-08-28 12:22:06 · answer #9 · answered by ok 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you dont come to him before you die. Im not telling you this to give you a free way out but, if you were to die today in a tragic accident and plead the blood seconds before it happened your soul will be saved and you are no longer damned.
2006-08-28 12:10:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋