Why would a god care whether or not we believed in it, or about sins, or anything at all for that matter? I'm not interested in a bunch of crap cut and pasted from ancient holy books, or to be told I need to accept Jesus or Allah, etc. Nor am I looking for cop outs like "free will" or "we just can't know god's will".
I'm interested in a rational explanation.
2006-09-02 04:23:15 · 29 answers · asked by lenny 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Some of you can't seem to comprehend that love is an animal instinct. Is god some kind of animal then - a magic old man in the sky maybe?
2006-09-02 09:56:45 · update #1
god doesn't need it, his believers do
2006-09-02 04:33:59 · answer #1 · answered by irumporayar 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps Sins are a universal law-sort of like gravity..
Just a thought.
But in the bible it says " god cannot look upon sin with the
slightest bit of allowance " something like that...
It also talks alot about laws and what not-what if sin
was a law of the universe?
As for the faith and believing thing, that has more to
do with Christ, whom is a mode for redemption.
Also the bible speaks of faith like it is some sort of
super power- " If you had faith but the size of a mustard
seed you could do all that i do " is what christ says.
I guess the Placebo effect is a small token of what
Mind over Matter is.
2006-09-02 04:28:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all here on earth as a BIG TEST!!! What we do on earth is up to us. This is our only chance. So many people are so busy trying to deny God. If there were really no God they would never give the word "God" a second thought. We must all be about his business or miss the boat!
2006-09-02 04:30:09 · answer #3 · answered by ♥tessa♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fundamentalist Christian is one who believes that there exists an all powerful, all knowing, universe spanning entity that has a deep and personal interest in your sex life. Not only that, It seems that this god is so vain and vindictive that if you do not stroke it's ego by worshiping it in a highly proscribed manner, it tortures you for eternity in everlasting fire. Now that sounds like a highly disturbed creature that is hardly worthy of worship or respect.
2006-09-02 04:35:08 · answer #4 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God was made in man's image. Thus he does not exist. Believing in God is like believing in Santa Claus.
God is existence, it does not need to be believed in, it needs to be experienced. But this experience happen in the mind, rationally. It is a beyond the mind experience.
Read about eastern mystics, Tao, Zen, Osho.
2006-09-02 04:30:10 · answer #5 · answered by Sarango 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He cares because we have to believe in order to accept the gift of salvation.
If you have a gift for someone, and they never come around to pick it up, what you have is a wrapped box sitting in your closet.
And while it is true that God could hunt us down and force the gift upon us, he doesn't do that, because to do so would be to eliminate our choice to deny him.
Why does this matter? Because if we could not choose to deny him, we could not choose to love him.
In other words, it would not be love if God forced us into it. Preprogrammed "love," choiceless "love," is not love but bondage.
God made us free to hate him so that our love, when freely given, would mean love and not slavery.
2006-09-02 04:52:05 · answer #6 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe that God can actually exist to begin with what attributes would you assign Him? That He created the universe willy nilly and then just went on His way? Christians belief in a triune God. That is three in person but one in essence. It is only by the idea of a plurality within the God head that love can be accounted for in eternity before creation because of what love is intrinsically. That is it gets its definition by its action. Therfore When God was the only existence He demonstrated love through the expression subjectively through two and objectively through three beings as one. To ask why God decided it was a good thing to create beings capable of loving Him and therefore capable of rejecting Him is asking for the omniscience of God to oneself and falling for the old lie of Satan that there is some evil intent on Gods part for limiting us to the constructs of what it means to be human. And of course we know what that ambition did to Satan right? But now after the fact of creation and the fall it should not be that difficult to understand why God would "care" for the plight of man. It is intrinsic to who He is to do so and somehow connected to His reason to create moral agents to whom He might demonstrate love towards by taking on the penalty for sin upon Himself. I think God genuinely wants to fill His world with those that He can love and be loved by in return. This does not seem so unreasonable to me. How about you?
2006-09-02 04:45:30 · answer #7 · answered by messenger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If my instructors have been to tell me that there is not any "precise" or "incorrect", that it actually relies upon on your peer team; if my instructors have been to tell me that there is not any fact, that existence is fullyyt a despairing phantasm without which ability; if me instructors have been to tell me that no longer something I do has any which ability and that contained in the top I merely die; if my instructor have been to tell me that the only way i would be chuffed is to sacrifice myself for the "greater desirable good"; if my instructor have been to tell me that each and every thing my mothers and dads tell me is faulty because of the fact they "merely don't get it"; if my instructors have been to tell me or mean that my decision of profession and what i prefer to do with my existence is stupid because of the fact existence has no which ability; then i could be extraordinarily upset, unhappy, and directionless as properly. upload this to that already painful looking that characterizes the teenager years and twenty's. Am I exaggerating? i do no longer think of so. those messages are on the middle of recent philosophical thinking. And, even even with the undeniable fact that those messages could no longer be explicitly reported, the message meant is, i've got faith, what i've got stated and it comes by to any teenager with any intelligence. Can it get replaced? definite, besides the indisputable fact that that's going to take many generations, merely because it took many many generations to progression previous the brutal era of human background typified by the Mongolian Horde. and that i've got faith that's going to alter and that we will re-study the flaws we knew contained in the previous and had forgotten-yet I concern this would possibly not take place at as quickly as. further Later: the sorrowful element approximately it rather is that it is the clever youngsters who go through the main. The buffoons and youngsters with marginal IQ are unaware that such questions exist. further even later: examine Ayn Rand's essay "The Comprachicos", her assessment of how the academic gadget "molds" youngsters as they see greater healthful, and, contained in the technique, squashing mind and unique thinking. no count what you have been advised approximately Rand, that's a great examine.
2016-09-30 06:45:27 · answer #8 · answered by schnetter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He cares because he wants you to be saved and have eternal life when you leave this world. Have you ever thought of what your life will be after death? Do you ever wake up and think of who gives you one more day of life? We are lost without God. He makes the morning and nighttime. Are you not grateful of the blessings that you get everyday
2006-09-02 04:52:45 · answer #9 · answered by Ruby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOVE.
The Creator loves His creations, and wants their lives to be intertwined with His. How can The Creator enjoy being a part of His creations' lives if the creations deny His existence?
The Creator loves His creations.
Its as simple as that.
2006-09-02 04:28:39 · answer #10 · answered by robabard 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well if you are a parent , do you want your children to have a relationship with you? would you feel pain knowing that your child has run away and left you for ever? how heavy would your heart be if you so your kid in the grips of a herion addction? the God of the universie wants us to have a deep and wonderful relationship with us. as a parent with a child.
2006-09-02 07:40:33 · answer #11 · answered by rap1361 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋