Or do we punish ourselves?
2007-04-12 18:45:48 · 20 answers · asked by thememtheory 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
there is no god
2007-04-12 18:51:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have Children? If not, know anyone that does. Do they get punished for doing wrong? Does that mean as a parent we don't punish our children because if we do we don't love them? I would say the parents that don't punish their children are the ones that don't really care about them. Same with God?
2007-04-13 01:52:23 · answer #2 · answered by mark g 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whomsoever believeth in Him should not perish but have ever lasting life. John 3:16. Each word of the above verse can be explicated and preached for days on end. Do you have the patience? or the inclination? The answer is within you.
2007-04-14 10:52:18 · answer #3 · answered by straightener 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bullies and those who were bullied, punish themselves and others. They think it's their turn to be in control.
Do you believe that God creates and stands back to see how it ends? Or intervenes at every stage, with a soundtrack and scenery? Or is like a CCTV camera, recording in silence?
To take your own frustrations out on someone who is trying hard to live in this world, and with themselves, is inexcusable. Whether or not that person is you or your hero or loved one. If you actively try to hurt someone, you don't love them. That is not love. It might be familiar, it might be regular, it might be a furious attempt to get the attention of someone who is not you - but it is not love.
It might be thought of as a circular threat, where a bad temper and lack of self-control is vented viciously on several children in turn, and called "fair" because an excuse is given, and the blows land on them in rotation.
Imagine a God who shouts drunkenly "Look what you made me do! You made me lose my temper and hit you - again!"
Nope. Not mine, thanks. If mine, I might be stuck with them, but I don't call that love. I know the difference, thanks to those who loved me and wanted the best for me.
Of course a loving god would not punish anyone!
We push ourselves, get impatient with ourselves, aim to be better, and hope for the same for those we love. Often, we are less than we would hope for - often, we are more demanding of ourselves than we should be. Sometimes, people ask so much more of us, from ambition or pride, that they would rather destroy us, or damage us, to prove that we were flawed, than have others think that they failed in any way.
It is possible to have high standards, and it is possible to want to hide the evidence that we are not perfect. So you have maimed children - and bad parents, and killers, and torturers, and bullies. I read recently that one child a week is killed by their parents in a country which hasn't banned corporal punishment. Where does it end?
You have people who resign and take responsibility, but don't try to destroy what they started. They know that others might continue the experiment, and help to perfect it.
Then you have pride, which makes others rule that out. It's as though they were told that to fail at anything is to die. So, they never accomplish anything, and only create anger and pain around them. Oh, they are generous with it, they don't keep it to themselves! Neither is that godlike, nor is that love.
2007-04-13 02:34:50 · answer #4 · answered by WomanWhoReads 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does punish us but finally it's in our hands. He punishes to guide us, to take the right path and to remind us of not repeating the mistakes but we choose our lives or punishment for oueselves by not obeying him or his commands. If we obey his commands then nothing is impossible. He loves us so he forgives also but leaves the choices in our hands.
2007-04-13 06:06:31 · answer #5 · answered by monica b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would never use the word punish. I have seen God allow me to suffer the consequence of my own foolish choices. He is as a parent, disciplining a child. The bible tells us "God chastises whom He loves".
Whatever God meters out....in my opinion it is always a consequence of some action on our part...that is in direct disobedience to His word.
2007-04-13 01:51:15 · answer #6 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, HE is. However, HE is also the GOD of JUST, HOLY.
Think like this, a dad will punish his child if they disobey. Just like GOD, He is the FATHER and we are HIS childen. If we continue to be disobedient to HIM. Then is the end HE will going to punish us, and that punishment, my friend, is HELL. For ever in HELL.
We do not punish ourself. GOD does the punishment.
2007-04-13 01:54:41 · answer #7 · answered by Sun Valley 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God does not punish us, He holds things together, but when we're bad He just gets out the way and lets caos do its thing.
2007-04-13 01:53:43 · answer #8 · answered by spir_i_tual 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please realise that God doesn't love human beings. That's a canard! So of course He punishes us when we don't behave as He would have us to. That includes adoring Him. Not for nothing it says in the Bible that God is a jealous God.
2007-04-13 01:50:19 · answer #9 · answered by Dennis J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Do loving parents punish there children when they disobey?
2007-04-13 02:06:36 · answer #10 · answered by Eye of Innocence 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If parents love...do THEY really punish?
2007-04-13 01:55:35 · answer #11 · answered by jbtascam 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋