Does it matter to God if.....a person goes to church every Sunday and blieves they are a saved Christian and?

Question

goes home from church and abuses their children. Or is it okay with God if a person doesn't go to church and does not abuse anyone? What is your opinion?

Utopia....did ya really need the 2 points that badly? I didn't even spell believe correctly, how can you be sure I have common sense?

Answer 1

I don't presume to pretend to know what God thinks. I only know what I think. I don't see any difference between a christian and a non-christian, except in an outward way. At the core, there is no difference. The same nastiness; the same pettiness; the same immaturity. The real question in my mind is how can a man trust God if there are no certain expectations that he can rely on? For example, if you trust God and your little toddler gets hit by a car, spends a month in the hospital in a coma, then dies, and you are left with anguish, questions and crushed expectations with a sneaking suspicion that God did not come through like you felt you had every right to expect. OR, some predator attacks you and injures you. What happened to your expectation that God would protect you? So trust takes a beating. Of course it does; we are only human. The problem with religious people is they are afraid to admit that, from our perspective, God doesn't make sense. They feel they have to mouth the religious rhetoric. They cease being real people. Often they become obnoxious. They are afraid if they admit the truth they are no longer loyal to God. Yet in their own hearts they have tremendous doubts and uncertainties. And besides, there are nasty people in church. Often you are treated better by the unchurched. Nothing has changed. Jesus ate with the common people and got criticized by the church goers of that day. He healed a man, but the church goers said he should have been in church, not gallivanting around healing people on the Lord's day. Nothing has changed. When you search in the church for verity, kindness and goodness, you don't find it.

Answer 2

If the abuse is actually happening it is not ok. However if there is no proof or just a rumor then that is something else. It must be remembered that some people who attend church are not perfect. For the time they are there they are trying to be touched by God. Each person in church is not extremely into it. No matter how long they have gone. The good thing is that they did show up. They are trying. People in church sometimes are going through so many tests and demons that it really will be a while before they are made whole again. That is why church is available as an emergency salvation. People who involved with church activities and stuff have dedicated a portion of their lives to help others. People who are no way perfect. People who are scared, in need and sometimes disturbed.

Answer 3

God's not nearly as concerned with church as "christians" are. It's all about the hierarchy of power....men run most organized religion today, just like they ran the temples and wrote the gospels back then. The Bible is a great launching point for starting a personal relationship with God, but anyone willing to use their God given intellect will inevitably find the countless failings it has, and realize it's more a reflection of the politics of the time than a reflection of God. I think it matters to God that anyone try to reach Him, even through church. But I've never felt closer to Him than when I left the church and sought Him on my own.

Answer 4

Yes, I do believe it does matter.
Because just going to church doesn't mean anything. So what? It means a person can go to a building, hear some songs and a speech, socialize with others, then go home.
All that really means nothing.

But what one does in life (not so much away from church) is more important. God said to love your neighbor as yourself. The word neighbor is used in that anyone who comes near you is a neighbor. Or that since we are all on this rock together, everyone is a neighbor to everyone. So if someone goes home and abuses their children, it doesn't matter how much church they went to, the abuse speaks louder than attendance.

So yes, God will favor a person who never went to church and never abused their children over someone who went to church and abused their kids.

Its not how much church one goes to,
its about how much one has learned from the scriptures and has applied it in their life.

Answer 5

I can not speak of what God thinks. Church is what it is. A gathering place to worship. But if you believe in God and live in the way he asks us to live :Treat others as you would want to be treated, then NO. It is not appropriate to do that. It is our job as parents to teach our children the difference between right and wrong along with the word of God not abuse. That is definitely against His way. That's probably what is wrong with children these days. Their parents are only a breeders cup and not loving and nurturing roll models. I believe that some parents that abuse their children are breeders for government profit. I was in the grocery store the other day and there was what looked like a single mom with 6 children. Most of them were in diapers. The mother paid for her groceries with a food stamp card. I had to look at her total which was about 200.00 worth of potato chips, juices that are full of sugar, those ramen noodle soups full of sodium, cokes and dr. peppers, sugar cakes and sweet breads.
The list is longer but I think you get the message. Then as I spent my 20.00 worth of hard earned money and walked out to my car, I saw that heifer loading all of that junk and children into a Cadillac 2006 SUV???? I thought to myself what the F*@&???
If that isn't child abuse???
It made me sick. I don't think that God would approve of that.

Answer 6

yes it matters to God if u abuse children because God loves children so much and if u abuse them then how will God feel?
if u dont go to church or u r not abusing what difference does it make? u are still staying far away from God...not going to church is not making u better..its just bringing u close to the devil as he tries to tempt u.so why not go to church to bring u closer to God?

Answer 7

Going to church doesn't win you free tickets into Heaven. God is only concerned with what's being taught from the pulpit. There's alot of wolves in sheep's clothing running the pulpits of today's churches. Simply follow Christ on a daily basis.

Answer 8

The sabbath became by no ability replaced to sunday. Sunday is the Lord's day whilst Christ became resurrected. we are in a position to work out from the recent testomony that Christians assembled on the 1st day of the week. The Christian dispensation did no longer initiate till Jesus became crucified and became resurrected. Acts 20:7 on the 1st day of the week, as quickly as we've been amassed at the same time to interrupt bread, Paul talked with them, proceeding to leave on the following day, and he prolonged his speech till night. a million Corinthians sixteen:2 on the 1st day of a week, each and every of you is to place some thing aside and keep it up, as he might prosper, so as that there will be no accumulating as quickly as I come. in case you examine the bible, you will see that Christ delivered a sparkling Covenant that replaced the previous regulation. between the changes became that gazing Sabbath days is now no longer a qualification for being a righteous person. The Jews have been attempting to bind previous regulation gala's, rituals, and the Sabbath on Christians, that's the reason Paul writes: Colossians 2:sixteen subsequently enable no one pass judgment on you in questions of foodstuff and drink, or with regard to a pageant or a sparkling moon or a Sabbath. From the NT we are in a position to work out that the previous regulation became replaced. as an occasion Hebrews tells us that the regulation became replaced whilst the Priesthood replaced from the Levitical Priesthood to Christ. Hebrews 7:11 Now if perfection were available in the process the Levitical priesthood (for purely it the human beings gained the regulation), what further want could there have been for yet another priest to stand up after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron? 12 For whilst there's a exchange interior the priesthood, there is unavoidably a exchange interior the regulation besides. in case you examine the recent testomony, you are able to make certain each and every of the areas of the regulation that became replaced, like abstaining from meals, gazing the sabbath, levitcal priesthood, temple worship, animal blood sacrifice, stoning human beings, tithing, circumcision, etc. in case you prefer to demonstrate screen the Sabbath, decide for it. do no longer bind it on different human beings.

Answer 9

Well God's opinion is "the Bilbe"
so lets see what it says

True religion is this Fearing God, and taking care of widows, and orphans - James

What does God Require? To love the Lord, - Michah

God seeks Mercy, not Sacrifice - Mark

Be Holy, as I am Holy - Peter

Answer 10

This is a difficult question.

On the one hand, God loves children. . . BUT,

on the OTHER hand, God loves the collection plate.

I think God gives character witness to churchgoers, so the kids are out of luck in this case.