Why do Christians think so low of their God ?

Question

Christians always tell me that their god only has two levels of judgment. Either you have accepted Jesus, or you haven't.

Yet, they also claim that their God knows 'the names of all my hairs on my head' or something like that.

Why on earth would a Christian claim that their God, who is supposedly all-knowing, would be such a silly judge?

Is that really their image of their god? "It doesn't matter what you did, I'm gonna judge you only based on one little thingy"?

Even as an atheist, I find that blasphemous. No god can be that silly, not even an invented one.

Answer 1

That is an interesting question. I have often asked similar questions myself and have stopped referring to myself as a "Christian" due to the...almost a stigma...associated with it. I am a spiritual being and believe in more than one "religion" just as I believe that there is truth to evolution and creationism. I don't know why or how as a species we must always try to make things black and white, right or wrong, when there are so many gray areas to explore and ways to compromise while still holding onto our primary beliefs. I believe in God and pray to God, not Jesus. I believe God started the big bang. I believe God let nature do the rest for the most part. Then eventually God stepped in to assist humans and other life forms on many other planets to progress but for the most part we are left on our own. I believe He or She steps in and has angels that help with miracles and providing guidance to those who are in need or at least willing to accept that help. I believe all bibles or other written forms followed by other religions were written by humans (even if they may have been guided by a higher power to write them) so they are subject to human errors. I believe they were primarily meant to be moral guides, meant to teach. I believe some stories and characters are real but again since humans wrote it and things have been transcribed, I believe important things have been left out. I believe in a loving God who knows us better than we know ourselves. I believe that when we live our lives to the best of our abilities and learn everything we were meant to learn we ascend to a higher plain becoming angels ourselves. Otherwise we come back as new souls destined to repeat life until we learn those lessons. I apologize if that didn't answer your question. It's difficult for me to speak to others about religion because I believe in more than one when most seem to think that theirs is the only right one.

Answer 2

He knows how many hairs are on your head. And He knew you before you were ever conceived in your mother's womb.

You are calling His judgment as being silly. Not His believers. We say and believe that He is love, He is fair and He is just. He sent His only Son to save our sorry sinful assses and He loves us so much that instead of forcing us to accept Jesus, He has told us all about Him and about His plan for salvation and we can take it or leave it. If you don't like the notion that you could go to hell, then you need to rethink your belief system.God doesn't have to rethink anything. And no, you don't go to Heaven just because you accept Jesus as your Saviour. Read Revelation 20. You are judged on faith and deeds. Level of faith and amount of good deeds. You obviously don't know what blaphemous means. Nothing in our faith is blashphemous because it is from God's mouth to the Israelites in the OT and from Jesus' mouth to His followers in the NT. And from the Church to Christians through the centuries. Has never changed. When you get to face Jesus, please tell Him that His Father is just plain silly. Satan will be happy to take you.

Answer 3

If there is a God, the image given to God cannot be accepted because no one knows who God is or what he is, or if he even is a he for that matter. God may be completely different from what many claim him to be. A similar situation can be analyzed. In elementary school a student approaches me and says another student has said so-and-so about me, should I believe what this guy said just because he said it, or should I go on about my life? Should I believe what people say of God because they say it, or should I go on about my life?

Answer 4

There you go! The "good" god & the "bad" god. There is simply no concensus of opinion even within "Christian" religion. Some of us really try to understand the concept/s. & yet, here we go again, with someone saying that Atheisim is a RELIGION when it is precisely the antithesis. Is there something--like a virus--with people who aren't informed, trying to speak as if they were? I really couldn't care a hoot what other people choose to have "faith" in. Just don't be "silly" & say I'm something I am NOT.

Answer 5

i think you're confusing what god might actually be, and what many people say he is.

like, i've heard people say "God is a jealous deity, you will have no idols above him"...... but, i was taught that jealousy was a sin, so .... God is sinning?

its all very confusing to me sometimes. but i look at it like this: nobody here can really say what or who god is, so anyone's beliefs are totally valid until proven otherwise.

i personally believe in God, partly because i was raised that way, and partly because the idea of faith works for me. i think everyone should have something to believe in, whether its God, or Allah, or Buddha, or something. and really, having convictions that there's NO GOD is a strong belief in itself.

i dont think that everything in the bible is true word for word though. no document in the history of the world has ever been 100% correct, because humans are flawed. if you and i saw the same exact thing and wrote about it, my perceptions and yours will be different.

live and let live, but i like the idea of an after life, and all religions tell us to work toward a better life for everyone, which sounds pretty good to me.

Answer 6

Perhaps you've just been exposed to the wrong theology. Christianity isn't necessarily agreed on whether you have to accept Christ or not. I'd say that God knows how many hairs are on the heads of his own, and therefore intimately knows -- and loves them, and foreknew them in that sense from before the foundations of the world. The unregenerate are simply left in their sins and judged accordingly.

Answer 7

there is not any longer something incorrect with questioning God. yet you will no longer fancy my answer. that's extra in touch than in simple terms asserting "via fact he's God." think of a few decide in a court docket of regulation. The decide hands down a loss of life sentence on a convicted murderer. Is the decide then a murderer himself, or is he in simple terms ending up and executing justice? do no longer hardship pointing out the above "particular pleading" fallacy. incorrect. it is not particular pleading- God is the writer of the universe, and not a normal guy. If he have been a human, which he's no longer, then it may be particular pleading to assert that God has particular dispensation from human rules. yet he's the regulation. We subsequently can't decide God as we could a normal guy, via fact, returned, he's no longer one.

Answer 8

Isn't it amazing how people tend to fit God into their own beliefs instead of simply reading what God says about Himself.

God has made it so simple that anyone can understand, even a child, yet people still complicate this simple truth.

There is a verse which describes this very well.

"Professing to be wise, they became fools" (Romans 1:22).

JB

Answer 9

God is all merciful. He will not judge someone until they have full knowledge of Him and still reject Him. I know some christians just want people to burn,which is stupid. It never entered God's mind people broght it up in there molach practises. You will read of it in Jerimiah.

Answer 10

I ask myself the same thing on a regular basis

it gets even worse though if you REALLY think about it

they ALSO believe, though they refuse to admit to it in just such terms, that they have two gods....the good god and the bad god

the good god they call God and the bad god they call Satan/Lucifer/Devil

and...worse still is that they believe that the bad god is stronger, though again they won't ever admit that there are two gods or that the bad one is the stronger one

but the proof is in their beliefs!

they HONESTLY believe that more people will die and go into eternal damnation than will go into heaven!

they HONESTLY believe that good and righteous people are STILL going to burn in eternal hell with the bad god
this PROVES that they think that the bad god is more powerful!

but again, they won't ever admit to that