You have a concept of God. You think he is perfectly good and just and loving. Is it goodness and justice and love that you VALUE, or is it just coincidence that this is what God likes? Do you really follow out of fear? Ask yourself, if God acted immorally, would you act morally and challenge Him, or would you act fearfully?
2006-12-13 05:30:07 · 21 answers · asked by dissolute_chemical 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Another stupid "what if" question.
2006-12-13 05:31:55 · answer #1 · answered by Preacher 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What accountability does a parent have to a child, a god to a mortal, the Creator to the Created? That's an interesting question: can God be accountable for His actions to the ones that He created. Can we challenge God if we feel His actions are unjust? The fallacy of the question, though, is that God's actions serve His purpose and that we may not always understand that purpose and therefore not understand his actions, regardless of how we might feel about them.
2006-12-13 05:36:06 · answer #2 · answered by Joshua K 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good enough question. Shows some thought.
Following the issue logically, we are, from the question and the way it is phrased we are taking a couple of things at face value, in order to pose the question.
1) God exists. For the question to exist in it's present form, and to follow to a neccessary reply, then whether or not we personally believe that God exists, this question presupposes for the sake of the hypothetical, that he *does* exist.
2) That God created us. Again, for the above reasons, if we are to answer this hypothetical question, then we are stating that "hypothetically" he does exist.
3) For the above two statements to be true, then logically, this presupposes that the Being in question is ageless, or at least, billions of years past our experience and wisdom.
Logically then, if we were created by him, then he would instill in us his value system. Or at least, to the extent that we could have what was originally *his* value system. He is aware of situations and would be have greater wisdom that we do.
So no, I would never challenge him.
When I was a child, in 1977, I wanted my Dad to buy me a Tonka truck. In the entire world, a Tonka truck, the yellow big ones made of metal? Man, those were IT!!! I couldn't understand why Dad just wouldn't buy me a Tonka truck!! All he had to do, was take the money out of his pocket, and buy it for me! He was already buying tools, and things for himself, so why wouldn't he buy me a Tonka truck to play with?
It wasn't until I was in my mid thirties that I sat back and pondered those moments. Now I know, that in 1977, Dad had just bought a $36,000 brand new house, a $4,000 car, and it being 1977? Just got laid off due to a recession. Those tools he was buying at the store for "himself" were garden tools, and he raised food for his family in his own garden, so he'd provide them something to eat every night.
But a 6 year old kid couldn't see those problems, or the entire situation. To *me* Dad just wouldn't buy *me* a Tonka truck, and it wasn't fair.
I've learned that as you age, you can learn alot. What may seem unfair to me now would either be because of my limited experience. 35 years old, versus agelessness? Would mean that I know next to nothing. Or, that I don't have all the facts that I *think* I may have, or
So no, logically speaking, I can't see challenging God on any moral question. Someone once tried that.
The servant Job did just that thing in the Bible. The entire book provides such an excellant example. Faithful though he was, he didn't have all the facts. He didn't understand that universal sovereignty was at question. He thought that God was punishing him. He did not know it was Satan. He did not know that humanities very ability for having selflessness was at issue. To him, God was doing all of those things to him. So although he was faithful, he actually said:
"But I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to argue with God. . . .Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him. . . Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated." - Job 3:3, 15, 18
Like me, when I was a little kid, this grown man had no *concept* of the issues that were going on behind the scenes. For him *to know* of the issues, would have invalidated the entire scene.
What was God's reply?
"Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,
"Now brace yourself like a man. I will question you, and you will answer me. Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?" - Job 40:7,8
The final chapters of the book of Job consists of God telling Job: "I'm happy with your faithfulness and your integrity, but son, you don't know everything that you *THINK* you know." So again, no, I would not challenge him. There may be a lot going on that I do not know about, although unlike Job, we know from the Bible why we have the evil in the world; and what the final solution will be
2006-12-13 05:51:12 · answer #3 · answered by raVar 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is the same yesterday, today and forever. I don't have a concept of God I have a relationship with Him and know his personality and character.
Fear definition: a feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger.
There is no fear when you know and love God, only peace.
2006-12-13 05:38:04 · answer #4 · answered by me 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have to be careful in how you ask this question because this presumes that God could do something wrong, but God makes His own rules, because He is God, so whatever He does is Just, because He does it. If we second guess Him, we assume that our knowledge is greater than God's, what kind of God would that be?
2006-12-13 05:36:12 · answer #5 · answered by master_tedsu 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well - God could never act immorally - however, if he could, I would challenge him to his face and question his divine nature. Sure I could end up dead, but I would die with the knowledge of God's nature.
2006-12-13 05:34:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
ignore about them. in the adventure that they sense that they could be able to decide you over a short communique, having no idea about you, you shouldn't care about what they say. comprehend one is acquainted with you larger than your self. in case you imagine that you're an excellent individual and persons that love you imagine that you're an excellent individual, that's all that concerns.
2016-11-26 01:07:11 · answer #7 · answered by spadafora 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean like, mmm, say, wiping out the entire population on the planet and only saving his favorite family? Or, say, blowing up two cities because he didn't like how they were acting? Or (my personal favorite) having his own son nailed to a cross and left to die?
Personally, I'm a wuss, I probably wouldn't be brave enough to confront him. But people do it all the time.
2006-12-13 05:35:10 · answer #8 · answered by Voodoid 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe in an anthropomorphic deity. God to me is a universal consciousness, or the universe as pure awareness so to speak.
2006-12-13 05:33:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Where is the challenge there. God would snap his fingers and you'd hit the ground. Dead as a doorknob.
2006-12-13 05:32:51 · answer #10 · answered by Red Foreman 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would tell God to grow up, act his age.
Then I'd realise he was millions of years old.
2006-12-13 05:34:10 · answer #11 · answered by Panama Jack 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋