Ok I know there are a lot of people here that are all bitter at God for different reasons in reference to premature deaths.
Ok starting with exodus. THe killing of the firstborns by the "Angel of death"
Ok I think you guys are forgetting something.
He is a fallen angel just like Lucifer.
Ok so it says in Bible that when Jesus died on the cross he took the keys to hell and death with him. It is not God's will for anyone to be taken prematurely but only Christians have control over this somewhat. As Christians we can rebuke the angel of death the same as we can any other demon. We plead the blood of Jesus over them. We plead the cross. Demons must obey Christians because we are children of the King. You see God means for his Christians to die peacefully ushered into heaven by God's angels.
Non Christians however when they die are ushered into hell by the Angel of death Satan's angel. I hope that clears up the God's will thing. His will for all of us is a full life.
Truth in love
2006-10-10 07:21:35 · 17 answers · asked by mmmk92 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
OH AND LOOK IT UP IN THE BIBLE IT'S ALL IN THERE. READ REVELATION ABOUT THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. AND READ EXODUS FROM THAT POINT OF VIEW IT WILL MAKE MORE SENSE THAT WAY. THAT IS WHY THEY REFER TO HELL AS THE SECOND DEATH. JUST REREAD YOUR BIBLE WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT HELL AND DEATH FROM THAT POINT OF VIEW. THAT DEATH IS AN ACTUAL SEPERATE BEING.
HAPPY READING
2006-10-10 07:24:46 · update #1
His will for us is eternal life, free of pain, suffering, disappointment, sadness, loneliness, and everything hurtful. Death is the doorway to that glorious life. God has a specific time in mind for each individual person to arrive at that doorway and, if that person has fulfilled the requirements for acceptance of salvation, to enter through it into eternal glory. This is not something to "blame" God for. It is something to thank Him for.
However, when one individual forcefully takes upon himself that authority which is rightfully God's alone, and causes someone's death by an act of his free will, whether by murder, suicide, abortion, act of terrorism, environmental pollution, or other lethal means, then God is in no way responsible for that violation of His divine plan. Such acts are entirely out of His hands.
2006-10-10 08:36:54 · answer #1 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not so sure that I agree with you. As a matter of fact it is not our decision when it is our time to die. God's plan is not our plan. And that does not necessarily include a peacefull death. For example, John the Baptist was beheaded. You mean to tell me that he didn't have the authority in Christ to rebuke the 'angel of death'? Also, in the New Testiment, there's an occasion where the disiples couldn't rebuke a demon in a man. They went to Jesus and said that they couldn't rebuke it and when it listened to Jesus they asked him why He could do it and not them? Jesus responded that that type of demon only comes out with fasting and prayer. Just being a Christian doesn't mean that you can keep death away. Every apostle is an example of that since only one died of old age/natural causes. Plus I don't reccommend getting into spiritual warfare unless you are fasting and praying about it constently. Yes, God wants us to live a full life, but according to His plan, not our own. If we did everything He asked of us who is to say how full our lives can be? And unless you are like Elijiah, you are going to die. I think your intensions are well meaning, but your claim is unfounded in scripture. The below scripture will help.
Exodus 13:15
When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn in Egypt, both man and animal. This is why I sacrifice to the LORD the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.'
Isaiah 37:36 (New International Version)
36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
John 21:18-19(New International Version)
18Jesus said, "Feed my sheep. I tell you the truth, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go." 19Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, "Follow me!"
2006-10-10 07:56:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The "angel of death" is not a fallen angel, he is one of God's angels, and that's his job, to carry out God's orders. I'm sure he was around during the Sodom and Gemorrah thing too. Too many people want to believe that God would never orchestrate anything they consider evil, but we can't see with God's eyes. We only see the small picture, God sees the big one. Read Revelation, you'll see the horrible things which are to come, and they're done by God's angels, the ones who open the seals, and carry out the horrors of the tribulation to come. There are many types of angels in the angelic realm, and I'm sure there are those that carry the righteous to heaven, but don't mistake the fact that angels do His work, and His work is sometimes unpleasant.
2006-10-10 07:29:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Angel of death is an angel of God - not Satan. Non Christians do not go to Hell - and Christians do not go to Heaven when they die. We need to read and study more of our Bible - not what someone thought up.
2006-10-10 07:28:52 · answer #4 · answered by Gladiator 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are gullible enough to believe that you were created by a God and that all the good in this world is God given then you can't let him off the hook when bad happens.
It's a weak-willed cop out on the part of believers.
In the beginning man created God, not the other way round.
2006-10-10 07:35:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think because its just easier to blame God. I'm no longer religious due to my grandmother who loved God more than anything suffered cancer before she passed away, but I have been taught that God has a plan for you even before you're born so he plans out your death. As you said, God is the King and therefore, humans being his children, he can make ANYTHING happen to us.
2006-10-10 07:27:02 · answer #6 · answered by electra_lutteur 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's try this.
A couple of low-grade enlisted soldiers abused some prisoners. They were responsible for their actions.
The NCO's were responsible for allowing it.
The officers were responsible for creating an environment where it was tolerated.
And the commander in chief was responsible because he started the whole war in the first place.
So.
Even if death happened because of Adam and Eve, God knew it was doing to happen and could have stopped it. Therefore, he has the ultimate responsibility.
God is responsible for all the evil in the world, assuming God exists at all.
2006-10-10 07:26:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
So your saying it's the fault of Christians,when a child is raped and murdered?Is it also their fault when children are kidnapped and sold into slavery?What about all the children in N.Korea who are starving to death on the streets,trying to survive on what they can find in the gutter?Who's fault is that?Or is that their fault for not being Christians,or not being Righteous enough?Theirs alot that goes on in this world that your Book can't explain,or be manipulated to explain.
2006-10-13 16:55:04 · answer #8 · answered by daddiesslut88 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
his will and actions are one in the same .... if gods will is for all of us to live a full life through truth and love.... would he not give us all truth and love....
the thing that you have to understand is that god if there is one created everything.... he did not create only good things he created everything.... death ....distruction.... anarchy....plages... god is not love... god is everything.... not what you choose for him to be for your convience....
god made the angels ... and so he made the devil... and if he is a part of everything he is indeed the devil himself.... and he is a part of you....and a part of me.... he did not create the bible or anything you go by... they were created by foulable man... in horrendus times... The bible was a guide... and you are making a guide to life into a guide to seperationsism....
do not be ignorant to your own faith.... you are not soposed to judge.... and that is what that have done.... and if you beleive that in death you will be confronted with
2006-10-10 07:36:25 · answer #9 · answered by little dazed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The minute you're born, you're a sinner, the wages of sin are death, that is God, All Eves fault, Women. Stop eating the damn apples.
2006-10-10 07:25:07 · answer #10 · answered by LisaM 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋