IF we are to believe the teachings of the Old and New Testament that our lives are mapped out for each and every one of us before we are born, and God is all-knowing and all-seeing, can God be found to be guilty of "aiding and abetting"?
By way of added information, I include info of a 2001 film - Man who sued God - a film in which a lawyer characters' boat was struck by lightening and the Insurance refused to pay up due to "Act of God"; because one can't "sue God" he sued the Church instead "as His representative.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/08/01/the_man_who_sued_god_2003_review.shtml
We are taught the teachings by the Clergy from an early age, so, can the theory of a story be put into practise in the real world today in the 21st Century?
2006-11-05 09:26:09 · 18 answers · asked by Hello 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I saw the film a year or so ago--I thought it was clever, and of course raises all sorts of questions.
I will say this, though: The question about God's guilt in the suffering of humanity is not out of line with the Jewish and Christian tradition. Job and Ecclesiastes both delve into the question of God's responsibility for suffering and answer it a bit differently.
_The Trial of God_, a play by Ellie Wiesel, is set in a concentration camp during the Nazi period and features a number of the camp's inmates who put God on trial for their suffering in the Holocust. In the end, the tribuna finds God guilty, but the play ends with all of those who found God guilty praying to GOd nonetheless.
Also Check out _Angels in America_, God gets sued in the end of that play.
I'm also partial to David Blumenthal's _Facing the Abusing God_ in the question of human suffering and God's responsibility.
It's the eternal theodicy question--Can God be all-powerful and all-merciful? If so, why do we suffer?
Good Clergy will help you engage questions like this and find your own answers.
2006-11-05 09:49:53 · answer #1 · answered by carwheelsongravel1975 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are in error, maybe you need to start by sueing the one who taught you that the Ot and NT tell you that your life is mapped out for you.
The Bible is clear each person has free will and can choose their own path and destiny and change mid stream if they wish. Yes God new all about you at your birth but God will never guide you down the wrong path or assist you in poor choices but God will be right there bearing witness to all that you do.
2006-11-05 17:33:07 · answer #2 · answered by mike g 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Clergy: a group ordained to perform pastoral or sacerdotal functions in a Christian church.
That is not just a "catholic" term.
2006-11-05 17:39:58 · answer #3 · answered by DontPanic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way.... There's no proof he's real and the church is a farce in my view anyway.... The judge has part of his brain missing if he even allows the case to go to court
2006-11-05 17:29:09 · answer #4 · answered by Shellie 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. What would you sue him for? How would it be benefiting for the person sueing God?
2006-11-05 17:45:08 · answer #5 · answered by Jim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can take Him to court, but He is the Judge. So, I don't think you have much chance of getting money out of Him that way.
2006-11-05 17:29:21 · answer #6 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, God can't be sued. He can't be defeated! He is the all powerful.
2006-11-05 17:28:34 · answer #7 · answered by Webballs 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God already paid with His life, so no, you won't win if you fight God.
2006-11-05 17:29:00 · answer #8 · answered by megmom 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So you thinking of filing suit?
2006-11-05 17:29:07 · answer #9 · answered by Darryl L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
clergy? dont assume everyone was taght the "teachings" by a clergy, not everyone is catholic you know, thank GOD.
2006-11-05 17:28:23 · answer #10 · answered by EllisFan 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋