What about Buddha's work, ...Krishna? Can I do the work of Jesus if I don't believe in him?
If I run into a church and throw all the collection plates on the floor and condemn all the money collectors will I be 'godlike'?
2007-01-30 11:09:51 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Robert O: There goes freewill...
2007-01-30 11:45:35 · update #1
Since there are no Gods the answer would be no.
2007-01-30 11:13:25 · answer #1 · answered by Germain 77 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
How about one question at a time. According to the Hebrew Bible God used the kingdoms of Assyria and Babylon to punish the people of Israel And God used Cyrus of Persia to rescue the people of Israel. The understanding was that God can use whomever or what ever he wants to accomplish his ends. In another story, Joseph's brothers kidnap him and sell him into slavery. He is sold into the court of the Egyptian Pharaoh and becomes a powerful official. When there is a famine in his home country Joseph is able to provide his people with food from the surplus created by Joseph's good management. When the brothers figure out who Joseph is and they grovel and apologize for the way they treated him he tells them you meant it for evil but God meant it for good. So yes, according to the Bible you don't have to be a believer or even a very nice person to be used to do God's work. You would have to ask a disciple of Buddha or Krishna if they have people doing their work. As for your last question I think you are just being silly.
2007-01-30 19:35:07 · answer #2 · answered by Lleh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What exactly is "God's work"? You can do good things without believing in God but that won't matter. Doing good things alone isn't good enough. You have to believe in God as well. That's just my opinion.
I'm not exactly sure how Christians and Jews do things but that's the way it is in Islam.
2007-01-30 19:15:06 · answer #3 · answered by LaissezFaire 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup, every time you do a good work or choose to resist temptation.
2007-01-30 19:17:50 · answer #4 · answered by Jay 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First you must have a idea what you do believe in, you have a information paradox..
2007-01-30 19:17:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
god can use people to intervene for someone to help them or to stop something from happening to some one that he has chosen
2007-01-30 19:25:39 · answer #6 · answered by Robert O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes people can do gods work without even realizing it! I did lots of times. I would help others. I helped one girl at school by telling the teachers that her parents we abusing her and i didnt realize that that was gods work until i had done it!!!
2007-01-30 19:14:59 · answer #7 · answered by jess 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, you'd just be an idiotic spaz
2007-01-30 19:13:35 · answer #8 · answered by winds_of_justice 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I didn't think it was possible to miss the WHOLE point, but..........
2007-01-30 19:14:40 · answer #9 · answered by INDRAG? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋