You who blindly follow god! Why?

Question

I just asked peoples opinion on god. Boy did I get slammed. 31 answers in the time it took me to answer 1 question.

I believe in god. I said that in my other question. I know he has harmed me and my family. He took my older brother which in turn made my mother leave. She believed in him with all her heart. She loved him more than anyone I have ever seen.

When my older brother came down with a horrible cancer she believed god would take care of them. She said she knew he would. So when the doctors told her that her son was going to die she didn't believe them, not even for a second....... Until he died.

She was devastated. How could he take he poor innocent son. He was taken on his 10th birthday. She woke up with him dead beside her. She had to carry her son's lifeless body to the living room. and then tape his eyes shut. ( he wanted his body to go to science if he died) (even though she told him god would take care of him)

That event tore my family appart and made my life a living hell.

I rightfully blaim god for what happend. I have also givin him credit for the good in my life as well.

The only thing I feel for him is hate.

How can all of you love him. and believe he only does good? How can a jealous god also be a loving god? How can he be the perfect idol that you all adore?

Answer 1

When one of my children was about a year old, I took him to the doctor because he was due for an immunization. I remember sitting in the examination room waiting for the nurse to get the shot ready, holding my young son and thinking that there is absolutely nothing I can say to him to explain the pain that he was about to experience, nothing. No talks about biology and immune systems, no intellectual rationale at all.

The look on his face, the look that he gave me while receiving the immunization, will stay with me for always. It was an image of betrayal -- not only did I not protect him, I conspired with the ones who hurt him by actually holding him still.

It was an image of betrayal -- I had conspired with the ones who hurt him.

And again, there were no words to be spoken to my son. The only thing I could do was hold him. Afterwards, I remember thinking about God and reflecting that this is how God must feel. When the pain is necessary and yet cannot be explained in any terms understandable to the human intellect, He still loves us and hopes that we will continue to trust Him. He hopes too that we can feel His arms around us, holding us.

Answer 2

Why wouldn't an anthropomorphic God have all the faults of a human being? The problem is that your God is created in your image. With that being the case, what do you expect? Humans can be petty and thoughtless, so can God.

What I try to explain to people is that if God is like us, then God has similar faults and is hardly all-powerful. God should have known better than to plant a tree of knowledge of Good and Evil (aka Tree of Life) if the tree was going to only have a negative impact on people. More likely, God intentionally gave humanity sin for entertainment's sake. The same may go for suffering and the torment you feel now.

Imagine if there was a human being that had all the power in the world... What a spoiled brat that person would be!

Answer 3

Oh sweety I know first hand how you feel.God took my best friend &mom & my husbands mom & as of a week ago my uncle & my great gramma.God seems like such a big joke right now but God did take care of them they are not in pain anymore, they are healed,happy, free.It's US that are left with how will react to the answer he gave.which f%$#@ing sucks but it's the truth. my mother died of cancer I watched her go from an over weight smart,funny,independent woman to a skinny, lifeless, forgetfull, totally dependent on me. The night she died there was more peace than I've ever known in my room,where I had been her caregiver of my mom.She was 49 & I was 26.There are laws of science that we can't denigh if a baby falls out the window the fact is a human body can not fly we crash & die that 's a fact not a fault. Your brother is taken care of just not the way you or I wanted.Those are facts. Not only that but my so called church I had faithfully gone to for 7 years in ministry,so were talkin three times aweek if not way more for morning prayer,prayer meetings,revivals,throwing parties for new believers with my own money,I'm a cosmetologist so every wedding I did for free,graduations,plays,dances, not to mention i'm artist so were talking,singing,set design & painting,acting.Blood,sweat,& tears into this thing gues who gave me a bridal shower,no one,no one also gave me a babyshower,&no one also was there when my mother was dying or died! Those are A$$holes.So you do God a favor love yourself,here,now like yourbig bro would have wanted ,go get your mom & remind her YOUR not dead & if she won't listen fuc@@ing tell yourself I'm Alive & I will lIve out MY dreams,my goals,& I will not die knowing that this is my chance to do what I love to do, Because I'm ALIVE today!!! I will not cause my brother anymore pain by contemplating Bullsh&t question that won't bring you back,but I will be happy cause you loved me & cause you know that all he ever wanted cause he allready loved you for you,his baby sister!!

Answer 4

Dr. Bob, supplies an outstanding component approximately following unsuitable good judgment with extra unsuitable good judgment. first, do not rely too lots on reason and good judgment, and comprehend what those fairly advise, ppl use ''good judgment'' too loosely. 2d, i might answer with a sure and a no. God would not want you to stay with blindly. he needs you to have 'faith grounded in reason', to confer with a plant you may advance and nurture. even however we can all have situations as quickly as we don't comprehend, and could take that bounce of religion, like Indiana Jones interior the third action picture, :) like one individual mentioned before, God needs us to repeatedly try him. he tells us ''tutor it, tutor to your self that i'm telling the reality." some issues won't make experience, different issues will. do not characteristic God to the two of those in basic terms because of the fact he's God. me being on the same direction, do not provide up on God or walk away thoroughly, consistently have ur heart open, God forbid we are incorrect. yet perchance take a wreck, go searching at different religions and strategies available. and additionally comprehend that we 'walk by potential of religion' meaning, not something will ever be provided to us which will the two tutor or disprove God a hundred%. he did not layout the international that way. and if he would not exist, then how are you able to tutor something like that? the absence of one component would not entail the absence of yet another. it fairly is the tiger rock analogy. in a room, one individual holds up a rock and publicizes it fairly is an anti-tiger rock, retains tigers away. you ask your self how he can that and he replies, "see any tigers" (of direction there is none.) be agnostic until now going finished-blown atheist, and if ur having morality subject concerns, then do not use this as an excuse to do issues ur faith says u shouldnt.

Answer 5

I am sorry for your loss, and do understand your pain.

It is easy for people to blame God when bad things happen in their lives--but it should also be easy to thank Him for the good things that happen in their lives.

Those who believe in God, know that when God wants to take you, He will do so for reasons of His own. Sometimes when we pray to God to help someone, He actually is by taking them--they no longer suffer in pain.

Your brother was quite generous at the age of 10, to want his body to go to science. I don't think that I could do that now--and I am 5 times older than he was.

There are many books (religious and non) in the library on how to survive the loss of a love. I think that it might help you to read some of them. You might also want to read up on your brother's disease--to see if anything could have been done to keep him alive--without suffering more.

Again, I am sorry for your loss, and hope that your family will be able, in time, to come to terms with all this.

Answer 6

My faith is not blind, I have my eyes wide open and though I know that it hurts a lot to go through what you all have endured, And I cannot possibly imagine your pain. I know that Jesus felt it even more and that He would have spared you that pain if you had been given the right ideas about life and death.

I too have been hurt through believing what is a common myth among some American Christians. That we should never have to suffer the affects of sin, death and disease.

The real truth is that we are all going to die and God holds the keys to that day in His hands and chooses that day carefully for us.

Answer 7

I agree with you (and I hope you didn't think my answer to your other question was slamming you). I could never worship and honor the Christian God for some of the very same reasons you have mentioned. A jealous, vindictive God cannot by very definition be a loving God.

You have my utmost empathy in regards to loosing loved ones to cancer.

Answer 8

Sorry about the boy. I would also be angry at God... for a time. But who best to offer comfort in a time like this? Someone who's own son died in the cruelest way? And where is that boy now? He's in the arms of the one you hate. Work through those feelings. God's ok with your questions and your anger. But don't abandon the one who can best help you through this tough time.

Answer 9

We don't always understand why he does what he does. But he doesn't make mistakes! We have to live on faith and believing! Prayer is the key. It's all in the bible

Answer 10

You cant blame God for that. He helps people but sometimes he knows whats best for us more than we do and everything happens for a purpose. Maybe this was to test her faith