Or "You can't answer for God." It seems like those people don't understand that God has told us what He thinks. He wrote down a lot of instructions in the Bible. So when people answer with direct quotes from scripture, it is like God IS answering them. I hate it when people try to claim ignorance about God's will. That's why He wrote it down for us.
2006-12-10 15:17:57 · 19 answers · asked by The GMC 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Maybe I should have said, people who believe in God and have something valuable to add only.
2006-12-10 15:22:28 · update #1
I'm more referring to people claiming noone will ever know something that is clearly talked about. And of course men penned it, but God directed the message.
2006-12-10 15:24:42 · update #2
Yes alot His will is written plainly. But when asked about His motives, why certian things happen, immortal time, etc...a good one to remember is Isiah 55:8-9
"For my ways are not your ways says the L-rd, nor are my thoughts like your thoughts. So far as the heavens are from the earth, is the difference between my ways and thoughts and yours"
Blessings
David
2006-12-10 15:23:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It all depends upon the person making such a statement and what they mean by it. In the examples that you use you seem to be describing people who either don't know what the Bible says or they don't believe that the Bible is God's Word to mankind.
In a different setting a believer could mean that God cannot be adequately comprehended by finite human beings.
Isaiah 55
8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.
9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
2006-12-10 23:33:59 · answer #2 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the millionith time, God did not write it. Jesus's desciples did. And they did it at least years after he died. No human even with perfect memory can write accurately about what Jesus had said. And to worsen it, half of it's content has been changed throughtout the past 2000. still think that the Bible are words of God? More like words of men!
2006-12-11 09:02:15 · answer #3 · answered by renaudldw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amen brother, in fact , the Bible is all God has to say, that is his whole identity in one book of words, words that are communicable. People saying "We can't know what God really thinks?" is a sign of ignorance and of a sinful lifestyle. Brother live on in the trusting that God is not a bumbling fool who left a book full of bumbling words. Email me at uziell3@yahoo.com
2006-12-10 23:22:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No-o-o-o; not exactly.
There are quite a few specific questions we'd all like to ask, for which no answer is given in the Bible.
Besides, sweetie, God didn't write the Bible. Men did.
2006-12-10 23:21:59 · answer #5 · answered by silvercomet 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In Ephesians It says that we should know the love of Christ that surpasses any human knowledge to come to know the fullness of God
(Eph 3:17) That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
(Eph 3:18) May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
(Eph 3:19) And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
2006-12-10 23:23:24 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is so true! Thank-You for pointing that out to everyone, myself included. Sometimes I can forget that God has given us his holy words through the scriptures. His love, patience, and council is all there for us to read.
2006-12-10 23:26:04 · answer #7 · answered by GraycieLee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The book of Isaiah in the Bible tells us that "God's ways are not our ways, neither are His thoughts, our thoughts". Also in Deuteronomy, God says "The secret things belong unto the Lord our God." I think that covers it.
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2006-12-10 23:22:13 · answer #8 · answered by truth_handler 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you to a certain extent. There are, however, sometimes where we, like Job, have to admit that God is so much more powerful and knowledgable than we are, and we cannot understand His will.
2006-12-10 23:22:11 · answer #9 · answered by wnk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But then you get into the question of, "What reason do we have to believe that those words were actually written by God?"
2006-12-10 23:20:02 · answer #10 · answered by . 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋