when we as a nation allow our elected officials to torture humans in our name? God allows Satan to torture humans in his name. When we have the resources to feed and care for the masses but choose not to? Did not God create the earth and give man dominion over it? And if so, did he not see how his gift would be exploited by those in power? And if he did, is it not reasonable to assume he condones this behavior? If he is all knowing, is his cruelty so great that he must force the mass of humanity to suffer for his own pleasure? Must not an all powerful God with knowledge aforethought be held accountable for the conditions He created? The suffering He imposed? Is his vanity so great that he needs our worship? If we are created in his image, is he a vain glorious, narcissist just looking out for #1?
2007-03-14 07:39:05 · 6 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please allow me to recommend an author to you: James Morrow. Please don't scoff. Call me crazy, but I say he has written some of the best material on the problem of evil and the matter of God's accountability - it's brilliant, yet entertaining.
Titles for your consideration include:
The Godhead Trilogy:
"Towing Jehovah," in which the 2-mile long body of god falls into the Atlantic, presumably dead, and a washed up tanker captain is commissioned by the Vatican to haul the body to the Arctic for preservation and study.
"Blameless In Abaddon," in which a justice of the peace assists the prosecution in charging god (now, agreed to be alive, but comatose) with crimes against humanity.
"The Eternal Footman," in which god's body explodes and his skull rises to the heavens, in geosynchronous orbit over the Western hemisphere causing an illness characterized by nihilism (in fact, when one is afflicted, s/he is called Nietzsche-positive) that leaves the culture in complete disarray, and in which a single man, in the words of Cake, "builds a [new] religion."
Finally, Morrow also wrote a book called "Only Begotten Daughter," in which we meet the half-sister of Jesus Christ and find out what she does, and how she struggles, when she identifies and accepts her capabilities.
It may sound ridiculous or blasphemous - I've never been a fan of fantasy or science fiction, but I read "Blameless in Abaddon" for a Philosophy of Religion course 3 or 4 years ago. It had such an impact on me, at this point, I've read everything James Morrow has had published. He writes irreverently, unapologetically, but is more informed on the questions you raised than anybody else I can think of.
2007-03-14 07:56:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope. but the Bible says that God commands us to be imitators of Christ, so we try to follow his example but we cud never really be completely like Him.
2007-03-14 14:44:32 · answer #2 · answered by Shmily P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes we are like Him because we are justified. God sees us as blameless as Jesus-Christ. In that way, we are like Jesus.
2007-03-14 14:56:24 · answer #3 · answered by Gui 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe he's looking for the people who DO try to make a difference. would be easier for him to round those people up, don't you think?
2007-03-14 14:43:48 · answer #4 · answered by Virgo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I pee in your general direction.
2007-03-14 14:44:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-03-14 14:42:57 · answer #6 · answered by asghannam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋