Is there a special God Clause to our morality system that allows God to do stuff we're not supposed to?

Question

Or is God expected to follow the same rules we do? Because it seems to me that God's allowed to do all kinds of immoral stuff that we're not allowed to. Like flood people to death. Is it because he's our Creator, and that allows him to do the things he forbids us from doing?

Answer 1

God can turn you into a mushroom, dice you and put you in His salad if He wants to. What are you going to do about it - tell your mom?

Answer 2

There are things we cannot do because we simply do not have the authority - like we cannot condemn or kill people in the name of God. However since he is the ultimate judge, he can take away life because either he is punishing wickedness or ultimately working for some greater good. For instance if he would have let the Israelites be massacred, there would have been no way for Christ to come to ultimately save a multitude more of people. Thus he needed to protect the Jews from their neighbors because it was the only way he could truly save people. Being all-knowing, he can weigh the long-term against the short-term and chose the best path.

Answer 3

GOD gives MAN & WOMAN a free will to believe or not believe. We aren't living in paradise here on earth. Shootings in schools,well we kicked him out of schools and busineses and even the birth of CHRIST at Christmas.GOD IS NOT IMMORAL! JESUS who was born of Man as he is both the FATHER,SON, and HOLY GHOST was the only one to walk the earth completely free of sin. Yet he died on a cross as a final sacrifice for our sins. That is why he is referred to as the "Lamb" because in the Old Testament sacrifices were made to GOD for atonement and the popular animal as the most innocent was a lamb for forgiveness of sins. By kicking GOD out of everything from commencement exercises,schools and even our own lives WE choose to let a few nonbelievers control what is seen and displayed for Christmas,Easter and even Sunday worship. GOD /JESUS is as pure as a driven snow. Natural disasters have miracles that happen as peoples' lives are saved. Read the Old Testament and see where GOD only allowed destuction of evil and helped His armies defeat evil civilations(Sodom and Gammora,Jerico and philstines) . What GOD does is help us through tough situations with the strength to endure whatever comes our way ( read the Book of JOB and Revelations) Everyone ,when they are born has already had their days on earth numbered like the hairs on your head. If you don't reconize that to keep from being cast into the lake of fire acknowledge the "LAMB" as as the way to the truth and the light and the way. GOD set the 10 Commandments and ,well in Genesis he had an angel,who is now the Devil domain over the earth because he was GOD's favorite and he knew the Devil would try to overthrow him and cast him into HELL . But because when GOD promises someone something he keeps his promise Everyone who is born is destined to die. How,when and where is predestined. Your choice is to believe in him and his SON or not. That is why I do not fear death,however it arrives. Armmegedon is the final battle between GOOD and BAD and He will win that war!!!!

Answer 4

You are assuming that God takes an active role in our lives.

If he is just a Creator, then he hasn't done anything immoral.

If he is more than just a Creator, then who is to say the we aren't His property (since He made us), and therefore He can do with his property as He wishes?

Answer 5

So Bahá'u'lláh made the utmost efforts to educate [His people] and incite [them] to morality, the acquisition of the sciences and arts of all countries, kindly dealing with all the nations of the earth, desire for the welfare of all peoples, sociability, concord, obedience, submissiveness, instruction of [their] children, production of what is needful for the human race, and inauguration of true happiness for mankind; and He continually kept sending tracts of admonition to all parts, whereby a wonderful effect was produced. Some of these epistles have, after extreme search and inquiry, been examined, and some portions of them shall now be set down in writing.

(Abdu'l-Baha, A Traveller's Narrative, p. 41)

The reality of man shall develop and come forth as the image of God his creator. The thoughts of man shall take such upward flight that former accomplishments shall appear as the play of children; -- for the ideas and beliefs of the past and the prejudices regarding race and religion have ever been lowering and destructive to human evolution. I am most hopeful that in this century these lofty thoughts shall be conducive to human welfare. Let this century be the sun of previous centuries the effulgences of which shall last forever, so that in times to come they shall glorify the twentieth century, saying the twentieth century was the century of lights, the twentieth century was the century of life, the twentieth century was the century of international peace, the twentieth century was the century  235  of divine bestowals and the twentieth century has left traces which shall last forever.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 234)

MAN'S RELATION TO GOD

The connection between God and the creatures is that of the creator to the creation; it is like the connection between the sun and the dark bodies of contingent beings, and is the connection between the maker and the things that he has made. The sun in its own essence is independent of the bodies which it lights; for its light is in itself, and is free and independent of the terrestrial globe; so the earth is under the influence of the sun and receives its light, whereas the sun and its rays are entirely independent of the earth. But if there were no sun, the earth and all earthly beings could not exist.

The dependence through the creatures upon God is a dependence of emanation: that is to say, creatures emanate from God, they do not manifest Him. The relation is that of emanation and not that of manifestation. The light of the sun emanates from the sun, it does not manifest it. The appearance through emanation is like the appearance of the rays from the luminary of the horizons of the world: that is to say, the holy essence of the Sun of Truth is not divided, and does not descend to the condition of the creatures. In the same way, the globe of the sun does not become divided and does not descend to the earth: no, the rays of the sun, which are its bounty, emanate from it, and illumine the dark bodies.

But the appearance through manifestation is the manifestation of the branches, leaves, blossoms and fruit from the seed; for the seed in its own essence becomes branches and fruits, and its reality enters into the branches, the leaves, and fruits. This appearance through manifestation would be for God the Most High, simple imperfection, and this is quite impossible; for the implication would be that the Absolute Pre-existent is qualified with phenomenal attributes; but if this were so, pure independence would become mere poverty, and true existence would become non-existence, and this is impossible.

Therefore all creatures emanate from God; that is to say, it is by God that all things are realized, and by Him that all beings have attained to existence. The first thing which emanated from  316  God is that universal reality, which the ancient philosophers termed the "First Mind," and which the people of Baha call the "First Will." This emanation, in that which concerns its action in the world of God, is not limited by time or place; it is without beginning or end; beginning and end in relation to God are one. The pre-existence of God is the pre-existence of essence, and also pre-existence of time, and the phenomenality of contingency is essential and not temporal....

Though the "First Mind" is without beginning, it does not become a sharer in the pre-existence of God, for the existence of the universal reality in relation to the existence of God is nothingness, and it has not the power to become an associate of God and like unto Him in pre-existence. This subject has been before explained.

The existence of living things signifies composition, and their death decomposition. But universal matter and the elements do not become absolutely annihilated and destroyed: no, their non-existence is simply transformation. For instance, when man is annihilated he becomes dust, but he does not become absolutely non-existent; he still exists in the shape of dust; but transformation has taken place, and this composition is accidentally decomposed. The annihilation of the other beings is the same, for existence does not become absolute non-existence, and absolute non-existence does not become existence.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Baha'i World Faith - Abdu'l-Baha Section, p. 314)

Answer 6

you are without understanding . this is just one of many ways how god lays down his punishments for mans sins . just like a parent disciplining their child .you have the weak time out method ,the taking of privallages and my favorite spankings.but asking god to explain his actions to you or us is like you explaining your existence to a paper plate and the plate comprehending that explanation.so take your beating and deal with it

Answer 7

Yeah, just like the police can get away with speeding, tailgating, etc, God can get away with genocide, because there is no superior God to punish him. Of course, I refer to the fictional version of God, not the true Creator.

Answer 8

The Ten commandments we are SUPPOSE to follow. God gives us the ability to improve our own lives and to help others. He can't save everybody anymore than we can.

Answer 9

I don't know. That's one of the reasons why I have such a difficult time believing in God. He seems pretty flawed to me.

Answer 10

Don't wanna sound persecuting but God is perfect and clean, he flooded the earth because when he looked at it all he saw was corruption, all the good left was with Noah and his family so that who he allowed to survive, please read scripture before you criticize it