2007-04-03 19:42:05 · 33 answers · asked by nagarajan s 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
We all have free will AND God gave us free will so that we will learn to accept the consequences of our actions. The reason God made rules was that we will avoid doing things that have dire consequences that leave nothing but unhappiness in our lives.
2007-04-03 20:04:43 · answer #1 · answered by Otaku in Need 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cannot agree with you, since for me there's no God whatsoever. On the other hand, I do believe that religious leaders ( of any Faith) work hard to and actually, too often, do manage to hold the strings moving believers as if they were puppets. Religion has always been a means to control and submit people, it's just up to the believers not to get used and submitted by religious leaders. How to do that? Keeping their Faith in their God if that's what their hearts tell them to do, without letting any human religious leader brainwash them or use them.
2007-04-03 19:51:43 · answer #2 · answered by Love_my_Cornish_Knight❤️ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God create us a brain so we can think and choose as long as we worship God. if we are a puppet and the string is with god, we cannot make any choices between good and bad.
2007-04-03 19:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by Tia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No that would be cheating the true God Jehovah would never resort to cheating Only the False god satan who is blinding the minds of the unbelievers(2Corinthians4:4)he tries to pull the strings by misleading people away from the truth of God's Word the Bible. But we do all have our free will and can choose which road we want to walk on wether we choose to follow the true God Jehovah or the False god satan, it is our choice, and unfortunately many many are choosing to follow satan's ways not Jehovah's ways, yes I do believe that there are many who choose to be puppets and are led by satan as their unnamed god.
2007-04-03 20:17:52 · answer #4 · answered by I speak Truth 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, God isn't pulling strings. Why bother creating a world if you have full control over everything that happens on it. Even in simulation video games if everything was in our control, no one would want to play it. It's the outside forces, the conflict, the goals and the struggle to achieve them that makes life exciting. I feel we're more of an ant farm. God build it, God watches it, God can shake it up, or pluck you out whenever (s)he wants, but it's mostly for his/her viewing pleasure.
2007-04-03 19:49:55 · answer #5 · answered by Rhyno 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I believe the devil controls our strings and uses us like puppets unless we ask GOD for help.
2007-04-04 08:18:55 · answer #6 · answered by QuantumB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God can do what ever he wants with us because he created the heavens and earth and man is what the bible tells us. But the only thing I know about God is what is written in this thing called a bible. I have never met him, seen him, talked with him, of even felt him. Seeing I am skeptical son of a gun I will wait until God tells me directly he wrote this book and to follow it without question. Until then I will accept the obvious fact the men of a primitive culture wrote this book so I don't even give it a second thought.
2007-04-03 19:52:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes I think the same way. If he knows everything and knows what will happen. If this is true then and he has planned everything from the beginning then that means we have no free will. Life is like a book and God is the Author and we are the characters.. He knows the beginning and the end.
2007-04-03 19:51:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He wrote the book that is your life. In this book you are the star.
That was a poem a friend in high school gave to me. Alot of Christians believe that God already knew everything you would say and do from beginning to end and wrote it down. He was suppose to just happen to know. But if that's true then whose to say he didn't set us up? It's confessing. If God is the author of my life, then I'd like to have a word with him. But really, it's the choices we make that decide our destiny.
2007-04-03 19:50:04 · answer #9 · answered by Melissa Y 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the Bible says God made us in His own image. We are beings who can think, rationalise and act. We have a spirit, soul and body which gives us the right to make our own decisions.
God made us like this so that we may willingly choose God. God is no task master who controls his people.Infact God has given us free will to choose what we want.
The important thing is that He never grows weary of waiting for us to turn to Him.
2007-04-03 19:58:07 · answer #10 · answered by Jacob M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋