5. If you were omnipotent but invisible, and you wanted to make sure that people knew you were real and wanted them to believe in you, what would you do to make this happen?
A. I would write my name on the face of the moon so all could see and have no doubt of my existence
B. I would do things that could not be explained in any other way. Like stopping terrible things from happening, like the 9/11 event, or feeding all the hungry children on earth
C. I would protect and reward those who believed in me and ignore the plight of those who do not.
D. I would do nothing at all and stay as invisible and undetectable as possible, letting everyone fend for themselves, those who believe in me and those who don’t, showing no favoritism
- Answers and grades to follow
2006-12-06 14:11:47 · 11 answers · asked by skeptic 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God does not think like us nor do we think like him and he does speak to us through his word.
I believe that God reveals himself in the word.
Isaiah 55:8-11
8For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.
9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
I don't care so much for the grades as (you put it) much as I care about knowing and believing in God for who he is and accepting him for who he is. He is my teacher and not through the wisdom of man on his own. I believe that God can speak through whom ever he wishes. He did use a donkey once.
2006-12-07 02:54:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A) God has given you all the signs you need. You get no more.
Matt 16:3-4
4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah." And He left them and departed.
NKJV
B) Evil exists my friend. Just because God doesn't stop it doesn't mean He doesn't exist. It just means that He wants people to choose Him, and when they don't they do evil things.
C) God has protected those who do not believe in Him. Israel had many evil kings before they were finally delivered into the hands of their captors for their sins. (By the way, ever noticed how those prophecies came true? Must be coincidence, right?)
D) Huh?
2006-12-06 14:27:31 · answer #2 · answered by I'll Try 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would choose "A".
I like your choices...that's the way people feel about God...however they don't realize that he did the letter "A". He wrote his personal name in the bible many times (6973 times) in the Hebrew Scriptures alone.
Addition: "B" - God has not stepped in yet so that people's own free will can make the right decisions and realize that "man cannot direct his own step" Jer. 10:23
"C" - God is not unloving nor partial. He is desiring ALL to come to repentance so that they will not be destroyed but receive everlasting life 2 Peter 3:9
"D" - God is loving and he helps those who call upon his name...if you don't know his name why should he help you? There's action involved in order to have God help you...if one wanted help God sends help but if you choose to reject the help and the "accurate knowledge" in the bible, then that is your choice, not God's.
As for "E" that people are giving....Jesus only died for those who want everlasting life. Those who are worthy to receive it then he gives them. He asks that you take in knowledge of his Father also. John 17:3
2006-12-06 14:17:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
5. If you were omnipotent but invisible, and you wanted to make sure that people knew you were real and wanted them to believe in you, what would you do to make this happen?
E. I would protect and reward those who believed in me and even those who didn't, even though by helping those who don't believe in me won't bring them to me because they just won't see my gifts. No matter what, you can't force someone to believe in something they are dead set against, but that won't stop me from helping them.
2006-12-06 14:26:20 · answer #4 · answered by sister steph 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
or E. I would make available as Savior in a human image of Myself. All those believing in Him will reach Salvation. This would be a free gift, aquired by having Faith! And I would plant knowledge of this Savior Jesus Christ into all of My peoples hearts. They can then choose to deny Me or accept Me.
2006-12-06 14:15:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
D. i could like them and settle for them as they are. especially because of the fact i won't manage to administration their lives nor can i tension them to have self assurance what i've got self assurance. the 1st 3 are terrible and that i do no longer comprehend how any ascertain must be that terrible to their toddlers. it relatively is purely like my parents who're Roman Catholic. i admire them and nonetheless they have not got self assurance what i've got self assurance as a Christian because of the fact their docturines are diverse to what i've got self assurance. i won't manage to alter them and nonetheless i admire them. i've got self assurance that God on my own has the means to alter people. He replaced my existence with the aid of coping with some inner subject concerns. with the aid of the way I did have a Buddhist as quickly as say to me "Be greater like Jesus". thrilling eh.
2016-10-04 23:48:59 · answer #6 · answered by dunkelberger 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not do anything. I am not God. God does what He will and WHO AM I to say what I would do? God is everything and He does what is best, it is His world, He has only put me in it for a short period, before He takes me out of it, to live in eternity with Him. I know that it is not the answer that you were looking for, but it is my answer.
2006-12-07 01:24:49 · answer #7 · answered by Kat 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You have an E. so I'll expand: I'd send a Savior to cleanse and preserve them and write My commandments on their hearts. This gift is open to anyone who will accept it, believers nonbelievers and you.
2006-12-06 14:43:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
read 1 cor 10:20 so C: would be the right answer biblical
2006-12-06 14:19:31 · answer #9 · answered by gary d 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
E Live on earth as a human being, rejected and tortured to death.
2006-12-06 14:17:22 · answer #10 · answered by andy c 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋