If you believe in God strongly enough could he save you from falling and/or death if you were to leap from a 50 story building?And do you think anyone is up to the task of showing us their faith in God and prove to us non-believers that by faith alone they can leap off the building's top floor and God will protect them?
2006-10-18 20:39:20 · 10 answers · asked by EasterBunny 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So, in other words, you can't prove God will protect you because you can't test God.Hmm... Can anyone say "copout"?
2006-10-18 20:44:18 · update #1
Look, people say what God wants all the time.People judge other people based on their interpretations of what God wants all the time.So why not show God's power and your faith so that there can not be any doubt.
2006-10-18 20:46:15 · update #2
Copout seems to be the word of the day since many of my answers are answering with copout answers.
2006-10-18 20:53:53 · update #3
To RW:
In order for there to be no doubt, God would have to be the only explanation.Not, well there was something that broke his fall.So, if you were "saved" by tthe Lord then there can't be anything to cast doubt it was God and not "something" that broke your fall.
Also,
If you fell because you were pushed and you were a faithful servant of God, would God protect you?
2006-10-18 20:57:32 · update #4
God is nothing more than the metaphysical recreation by man to deal with his own personal insecurities. Simple english, man created God, because he's too much of a b-i-t-c-h to deal with his own stress.
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2006-10-18 20:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by doomsday_propaganda 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's been done. Most often with the lives of unwilling participants, but it's been done none the less.
Back in the day, when a woman was accused of witchcraft, there were a number of "tests" used to determine her witch..iness.
One of them was throwing her off a cliff.
The reasoning was that, if the woman was innocent, god - because he's loving and just - would snatch her out of the air and set her down unharmed. After all, how else would a loving and just god behave?
Naturally, every single woman they threw off the cliff fell to her death, so they all figured that each woman was guilty.
Another instance of this is "breatharians". The person who invented the cult doesn't actually believe it, but some other people have. They believe that they can get all the sustainance that they need just from breathing air. Thus, they don't eat.
Some of them actually believed this, and stopped eating.
And they died.
And so on and so forth. People actually do stuff like that; never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
2006-10-19 03:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by extton 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually, not even Jesus did that when asked (Mathew 4:1-11, according to Google), so I'm not going to try it. Furthermore, I'm pretty sure the Bible makes no mention of God's promise to stop a believer from splatting on a sidewalk after jumping off a 50 story building. It's more what would happen afterward that it deals with: judgement, heaven, hell, etc. If someone jumped off a 50 story building in the name of God, they'd die. God "saving" someone isn't about saving a person on earth, as everyone will eventually die; it's about saving a person's soul and making it last eternally. God isn't supposed to be "proven." I know, I thought it sounded kind of contrived and apologetic too at one point, as if it were just making excuses for the way things are...
2006-10-19 03:52:27 · answer #3 · answered by Joez2103 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes.
but why push it?
look at the people who drink poisons and such and are uneffected by it? isn't that close enough?
edit: if someone who believed, was without expecting it, pushed off the edge of a building... and HAPPENED to fall onto say, window washing scaffolds, or get caught on something,... or SOMETHING like that, that prevented them from dying... would you be convinced? or would they have to fall clear the whole way, and either not hit, or survive the hit, for you to be convinced?
edit for response...
what if the thing that broke the fall, wasn't "supposed" to be there? that it was out of the norm for it to be there....
the problem with the approach you have, is that theres no reason God wouldn't "save" the person by simply arranging for something to be there to break their fall.
2006-10-19 03:42:01 · answer #4 · answered by RW 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about the 50 story jump, but I've read stories (stated to be true stories)....about people who've attempted suicide and lived to tell about it. Maybe it was God's will...or maybe it was other people using their "freewill", to stop the attempted suicide?
Either way...the stories were miraculous....the timing of the interventions was astonishing. (we all believe what we want to believe). Has nothing even slightly random occurred in your life? No coincidences?? (tell the truth). :)
2006-10-19 03:56:50 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then the devil took him (Jesus Christ ) into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down, for it is written, 'He will give his angels charge concerning you.' and, 'On their hands they will bear you up, So that you don't dash your foot against a stone.'" Jesus said to him, "Again, it is written, 'You shall not test the Lord, your God.'" (Mathew 4:5-7)
Do you see any connection? Can you explain it?
2006-10-19 04:05:19 · answer #6 · answered by Dimitris-Greece 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He will save me if it is his will. If it is not, then he will not. But if I were to jump off a building to prove something about God to you, chances are very high that God will not intervene in my death. God is offended by those who approach him or refer to him in pridefulness, and he opposes those who attempt to use him for their own agendas. I would be attempting to "show off" or "pump up" or "promote" God--or my faith in God--by trying to prove that faith will save my body in this circumstance...and God will let me endure the consequences for my prideful blasphemy, which would be, in this case, my smashing on the sidewalk and dying.
2006-10-19 03:43:43 · answer #7 · answered by Gestalt 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith is not about stupidity or blind tests...it is about putting your inner being to believe that you can sail through a particular challenge or hurdle in front of you
2006-10-19 03:49:44 · answer #8 · answered by Fatherla 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
why would a believer jump from a 50 story building to there death when God tells us not to test Him?
easter bunny: read the bible you will find your answers there ma'am/sir :)
juggling who posts below me also needs to read the Bible, i don't have enough time to educate ya'll now kids
2006-10-19 03:42:01 · answer #9 · answered by Nikki 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nikki, you idiot. Prove "GOD" then I'll believe he said "Do not test me."
Awesome question, can't wait to see all the Fundie's explain this one.
2006-10-19 03:44:34 · answer #10 · answered by Jimmy 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋