Do you think that man can govern himself, or does God need to intervene?

Question

Even though the human race has made great progress in many areas, lately we have taken a wreckless course which has put the whole world in fear of what is to come. Can the human race find peace and security, or should God step in, as He promises to do, and put an end to this wreckless path that we have taken?

Answer 1

History has prove that man can't even direct his own steps..............we need God's kingdom.........NOW

Jeremiah 10:23.....I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step

Psalm 146:3-6.........Do not put YOUR trust in nobles,
Nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs.
His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground;
In that day his thoughts do perish.
 Happy is the one who has the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in Jehovah his God,
  The Maker of heaven and earth,
Of the sea, and of all that is in them,
The One keeping trueness to time indefinite,

Answer 2

Though, as you point out, man has made great progress in technology and the like, he seems to be going backwards in human relations.

The threat of nuclear annihilation has never been greater. In fact, since the USSR's dissolution, the dissemination of nuclear technology and other massively detrimental weapons has been dispersed into even more irresponsible and volatile hands. More and more national leaders have a "my way, or no way" attitude.

Human political action has show itself to be impotent in curtailing this.

With the ever escalating accumulation of these means of world detonation, can anyone believe that that fuse won't someday be lit?

Regardless of what some want to believe, human nature is not inherently good. There have been Hitler's and Stalin's in the past; there will be so again.

As the weapons get bigger, so does the demise of the human race get closer.

A good and loving God IS our only hope.

If it were your choice to be blown to bits by a nuclear, Last World War, or have God rule the earth, which would you take?

The thing is, God's Word predicts that men WILL proclaim peace just before the end, just before they start the Last World War.

Answer 3

First of all if you believe in evolution, you are RETARDED and your "God" is a monkey...so you folks ought not to answer this one.

Let me try to answer this one and anger as many godless liberals as I possibly can.

First, no, I don't think man can govern himself and no I don't think God can or will intervene until he decides its time or if this "plan" in the bible is something that's going to happen. According to MOST religions, God gave us all free will, the luxury of being able to choose.

And we do some INCREDIBLE things with that free will. There are all KINDS of government ranging in fairness from twisted evil to fairly healthy and free, but history shows that we just CANT leave each other alone. No matter who starts a war, no matter what the reason is, there will always be people who think its wrong and those who support it, but that's been going on for as long as mankind has documented our history.

So no, the human race will NOT find "peace". Governments like Iran and Iraq, North Korea, the old Soviet Union, Communist China and others will continue to abuse their citizens and suck away freedoms and the rest of us, captialists and self serving monarchies, will continue to be tempted by greed and power and will corrupt our own good by occasionally making bad decisions.

We will never all agree. If you believe in the Bible, at some point, God gets fed up and sorts it all out, but until that time, we get to do what we want...and I am betting that it will be what we as human beings have ALWAYS done, which is good AND bad.

Answer 4

probably God needs to intervene but I think we should have one more go at it and eliminate the ability of people to hoard or accumulate past a specific limit and establish that limit by using some kind of formula like no one can accumulate more than 1000 (or whtever number) more than he who has the least and then provide other incentives like being able to direct excess profits to or a percentage of those to prodjects that are judged as socially beneficial like providing clean drinking water for everyone.

aS IT IS NOW PEOPLE ACCUMULATE UNTIL THE ONLY THING THEY CAN USE THEIR WEALTH FOR IS HAVING POWER OVER OTHERS AND AS CAN BE SEEN THAT YIELDS BAD RESULTS, LIKE UNION BUSTING, CHILD LABOR, wAR, OPPS sex slavery, poverty, etc etc.

I think if we got together a little more and recognize it is not the poor who are the enemy but those who have accumulated too much and those who aresadestic about how they use their wealth, and the whole idea that one makes money from having money causes problems as well. Wouldn't hurt to make an educational prerequisite for holding public office either with a voter controlled curiculum.

Answer 5

No, God did not say that he would step in. Humans imagining themselves to be talking on behalf of God, made those claims. You sound very young when you talk about "lately". The world has not changed very much over the centuries. Still waring, as usual.

Answer 6

I can't imagine anyone looking around at the state of the planet and thinking that man has done well running things.

I look forward to the day when Jesus rules and reigns.

Answer 7

No man is good and we are all filthy sinners. Only by the grace of God can we ever walk a true path.

Answer 8

God need to intervene. Jer. 10:23 says: "I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."

Answer 9

God will step in with the second coming. Until then we destroy ourselves by our own free will.
jw

Answer 10

By this time, it ought to be fairly obvious to anyone with a brain that we need God to intervene.....