My opinion on this is God created humans in his image knowing just like we have kids and if they do not live by our morals do we have a right to kill them like God did in Sodom and Gomorah or the flood. If God did not want us to eat the forbiden fruit then why give us curiosity. If we ahve free will how free is it if we are given ulitimatums either live how god says or go to hell what kind of chioce is that its like asking would you like fries with that or do you want us to throw you in the boiling oil. hmmmm. Thats sounds like despotism not a loving God.
2006-10-11 06:39:39 · 25 answers · asked by ernestmisyuk 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes of course.
Because He is the potter and I'm the clay.
It's up to Him to make or break.
2006-10-11 06:45:31 · answer #1 · answered by sunlightbarsoap 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Question, Does God have the right to judge us?
I find only Americans are obsessed by their Rights...I have a right to to this, you don't have the right to do that.
1) Outside of the coverage of the American constitution, you don't have any rights.
2) It sometimes doesn't matter if someone has a right to do something or not, if they are doing something, deal with it.
If there is God, and that Deity created things, then that Deity can do whatever they want to do. Period.
Deal with it...I'm sure an ant doesn't enjoy getting burned by a magnifying glass.
Thank God for Goddess.
Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!
2006-10-11 13:48:15 · answer #2 · answered by Hatir Ba Loon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've obviously never been a parent. God has a right to judge us like a parent has to judge a child. He doesn't hold us up to his standards. Like I don't have the same rules for my 2yr old as I do.
God gave us free will in order to be free. That means the freedom to make mistakes and we all make them. That doesn't mean that he told us to make them nor did he force us to make mistakes. That is wholly ours.
When you create a child you can not control that child. You want to and you think you can but ultimately you have to let them learn on their own. The only way a child learns how to walk is by falling down. As humans we learn from our mistakes (hopefully) if not we repeat them over and over until we do learn. That is what God gave us the ability to learn from our mistakes. That isn't despotism that is love.
And I think that Hell is reserved for those who never learned from their mistakes. As long as you try, I think God grades fairly easily.
2006-10-11 14:02:52 · answer #3 · answered by kholbee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly God has the right to judge us. He also knows how we should live. You choose and if you don't like God or his choices then you will have to live with it..
God has shown us the right way and made a way for our salvation. If you don't like it then get mad at him and call him a despot if you want, but I guarantee HE will not change, and you will be on your knees when you finally come into his HOLY presence.
2006-10-11 13:43:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. God is absolutely holy. 2. He did make us all. Every craftsperson, artist, etc. judges their own work. Therefore, as the ultimate artist, He most certainly can. 3. He is omnisicient and omnipotent. No one has enough power to argue with Him, nor should they. 4. God always does right. We don't.
2006-10-11 14:24:37 · answer #5 · answered by afkillgore 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well since you are obviously NOT a believer, I would say it really does not matter what my opinion is. However, I think since he created us he has more than enough authority to judge us. If a cartoon writer draws a cartoon he does not think fits in with the whole story then he throws that one out and starts again.
2006-10-11 13:43:27 · answer #6 · answered by mortgagegirl101 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First, if He made us then what He does with us is His choice. He sent numerous examples and illustrations and even a bunch of direct instructions on how He expects us to behave and gave us a choice to follow or not. It was His choice to give us our choice and it was His choice to set our limits. This is like the passage in Isaiah 29, "Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?" (vs. 15-16; see chapter 45, also Romans 9:18-23). In Jeremiah 18 God likens himself as a potter making something with clay, if gets "marred" he makes it over again, "as seemed good to the potter to make it."
God also judges and Isaiah 30:14 gives the picture as one of many, "And he shall break it [sinful Israel] as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit."
Revelation 20:11-15 gives us fair warning:
And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
Take it up with Him when the time comes.
2006-10-11 14:37:18 · answer #7 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, God has no right to judge us.
If I put a loaded gun on a table in front of a kid but say, 'Do not touch this', and I watch as he curiously picks it up, points it at his face, and pulls the trigger, blasting his brains all over the wall behind himself, am I morally clean because I told him not to touch it?
No. I created the situation that allowed the error to happen, and I am morally culpable for the error. I could have stopped it.
Likewise, God is omnipotent. He can literally do anything. So, he could have given me free will in such a way that I still would not have sinned -- if he could not, he is not omnipotent. So God created me knowingly capable of sin, and then wishes to judge me?
God is more guilty than I am. Were he real, I would be morally justified to judge HIM, not him me. And I assure you, would he be real, I would judge him in the harshest of terms.
2006-10-11 13:45:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
If that's your opinion about GOD then why log onto a religious/spiritual forum that believes GOD which is totally different from your beliefs?????.......my answer to your question is : since you've made up your mind about GOD with your personal views & beliefs, then find a site that believes the same as you believe!.....simple as that!....
2006-10-11 13:45:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have a free will to make the choice to sin. God knows us and we are expected to fail through sin. The choice is whether or not to accept His Son as our mediator. There is no way to become sinless except through the sacrifice of Jesus. He paid for our failure. Become free from sin by accepting him or maintain your guilt and pay the price of sin (death) and Hell with it..
2006-10-11 13:47:06 · answer #10 · answered by Dood 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God never puts us in a situation that He does not give us a way out of. He loves us so He gives us His grace, all we have to do is ask Him for it. He is very loving and all good.
2006-10-11 13:53:53 · answer #11 · answered by hbpp 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋