Why doesn’t God make it instinct to know God’s rules? We could still have free will. It’s like a conscience. We have that little voice that helps us determine right from wrong and can still chose to ignore it. See if God had me born knowing that God was real, I wouldn’t have to take another human's word for it. I wouldn’t have to try to understand why Gods word conflicts so undeniably with God’s world. Why God was so involved with the lives of ancient Jewish people yet never comes around anymore.
2007-02-23 08:39:29 · 20 answers · asked by Sara 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You only know him through a book? How unfortunate for you.
2007-02-23 08:42:44 · answer #1 · answered by Jim R 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There were long periods among the ancient Jews where there was no prophet, just like there are in modern times. We are born with a knowledge of God, just look at the amazing world around you, that way you won't have to take anyone's word for it. We are born with a sense of right and wrong, thus we know God must be moral. The God of Abraham is the only God that fits the bill of being infinite, moral and rational.
2007-02-23 08:45:27 · answer #2 · answered by 1,1,2,3,3,4, 5,5,6,6,6, 8,8,8,10 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, it said that God only appeared to the ancient Jewish every few hundred years or so. So.. yeah. We have awhile. But God comes to people through prayer too.
People do have a sense of a conscience when we're born. We naturally know that it's bad to kill people. We know what love and hate feels like automatically.
God did give everyone free will, because what kind of love is that when you force people to love you?
2007-02-23 08:44:08 · answer #3 · answered by herbritannicmajesty68 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God has communicated in many ways. He worked through the prophets, through His people, through nature, through angels, through Christ, and through the Bible (Hebrews 1). It's really a lot easier to read a Bible than to run around looking for prophets though. God does make it instinctive to know His law...see Romans 1:18-32, but the world, including man is broken. Sin has affected the world to such an extent that we need something outside of ourselves to be able to check our behavior against. God says without Him we can do nothing. HE is the Word of God. John 15;5
2007-02-23 08:51:48 · answer #4 · answered by Cheryl Durham, Ph.D. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time will come when God will be in the minds and hearts of man. It will no longer be needed for a brother to tell another to know thy God for everyone will know Him...just like in the early times of the earth. That is written in the Book. The New Testament we have at present is just the Book about the life of Jesus, the real New Testament of God will be carved in us.
2007-02-23 08:53:29 · answer #5 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole point of you being in this world is so you recognize God and worship him. You have free will so can be responsible for your actions. This life is a test to see whether you recognized God or not. There are plenty of signs all around you. It is upto to you to accept or reject them. God communicated his message through the angel Gabriel to the Prophets (pbuta). That was then written down so it could preserved in writing.
2007-02-23 08:46:14 · answer #6 · answered by reigning queen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey Sara,
God can't reach to everyone in the world and give his messages etc so he needs a medium to say wat he wants and these books help him spread his message...
he's still some whr near us.. its we who can't recognise him...
what u feel rite and wrong is ur voice, ur choice but what ever happens in ur life... with out even u knowing how and why.. is God's doing...
God knows wats best for each and every person... he gives us all a chance but then at times we ignore wat we have and walk past the opportunity he has given us without even realizing that it was all by his blessing... we do that with our own will... "free will"...
well God may be sitting next to u... but u won't recognise him.. and if u expect him to some to u and say "hey Sara, m God.." then m really sorry u'll never find him...
then best way to look for him and realizing his presence is to look around u and who so ever comes to help u is sent to u by God only...
Thanks...
2007-02-23 09:15:48 · answer #7 · answered by curious_me 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The 'book' is so we can be in community - if we all had it ingrained in us we wouldn't need each other.
God walked with Adam and Eve - rejected
God walked with Abraham - dissed
God walked with the Israelites - forgotten
God talked to the Prophets - they were ignored
God walked with us in the body of Jesus - crucified
We now personally have to accept or reject Him and when we pass from this place (or at the second coming depending on your theology) you will get to walk with Him
2007-02-23 08:46:35 · answer #8 · answered by random stalker 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God had a relationship with man in the beginning. Ever since sin entered the picture, Man,s concepts got all mixed up. God now has to reveal Himself to us through His Word. We are all given a measure of faith in Him when we are conceived. This world is the product of sin. The Bible talks of the god of this world that blinds us to the glorious gospel of Christ 2Corinthians 4:4. God chose Abram to reveal Himself to all of mankind. Abrams name was changed to Abraham, and he begat Isaac who begat Jacob who's name was changed to Israel. The father of all of his descendants. They are refered to Jews after the tribe of Judah, one of the 12
children of Israel. He lives through His Born Again children. And this is waiting for you. Acts 2:38 is the answer. And when you receive His Spirit, youwill speak in an unknown language that the Bible calls tongues. St. Mark 16:17.
2007-02-23 09:01:02 · answer #9 · answered by michael m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free agency does have a lot to do with it, by not being... As forceful in our everyday lives he allows us more freedom and gives us a greater test of our faith. The "feeling" you described my faith calls the Holy Ghost, and he speaks for God, though he does so quietly. Also my faith ( mormon) believes in personal revelation, that if you study and pray, you will get answers to your questions, again they may only be in the form of feelings, sometimes dreams, sometimes direct signs, but you have to be watchful and open to the answers you will recieve.
2007-02-23 08:44:43 · answer #10 · answered by nemsethcszardescu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and clearly there aren't any Christian television courses, television networks, telephone apps or internet web content. (Duh!!) there's a reason that God opt for to talk by a e book as his usual source, somewhat than those others issues. "Books" were round for 4000+ years. the different stuff for one hundred (or a lot less). Had he waiter until eventually the discovery of the web, he might want to have lost thousands of years of exposing himself. Had he despatched out his message as "tweets" before there have been cell phones, who might want to are growing to be them? So God replaced into smarter than you. He used a medium that has been accessible to people for the final public of their historic previous. And one which will nevertheless be round regardless of each little thing those technological gadgets have disappeared.
2016-10-17 08:44:25 · answer #11 · answered by konen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋