Has anyone ever successfully managed to sue God?

Question

I am religious myself, so I don't mean the question in a disrespectful way, but has anyone ever sued God and what was the outcome.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Apparently many times. Do a search on "Lawsuits against God" you come up with winners like this:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20051018/41809986.html

And I thought Russia was a godless society.

Answer 2

Lawsuit Against God

Answer 3

Considering what our country is turning into, it wouldn't shock me if somebody sued God and the government stuck an arrest warrant on Him when He didn't show. Our government has about that little sense. This is the same organization that thinks that pork barrel legislation is a good idea.

If somebody were to win a lawsuit against God, they'd have to decide which church to force to pay the damages. It would be difficult for them to collect their money.

Answer 4

God is not under the court's jurisdiction. In order to have a lawsuit, you must be able to serve the party being sued with notice. Last I heard, no process server in this world has an address listing for service on God. Some parties have agents to act in their behalf. If you can identify one person on earth that has authority to accept service of process on God, then perhaps you could start the lawsuit. However, God would immediately file for a dismissal due to the court's lack of jurisdiction over God. Since all things on earth are subject to God's jurisdiction, nothing on earth can have jurisdiction over God. Then, assuming a court was foolish enough to accept the case and sue God in His absence from the courtroom, what kind of evidence could you present either pro or con, from reliable witnesses of the supposed damage done by God? Did anyone see God do harm to someone on earth? I don't think so. Would anyone testify that God made them do harm to others? I don't think so. Again, assuming that false witnesses did testify that God told them to do harm to others and the court were to convict God of that harm, how are you going to take God into custody? How are you going to put a lien on God's assets? I dare say that you will not collect a single penny from God to satisfy the supposed judgment. When Christ was on the earth, He allowed himself to be subject to the laws of the land, in spite of their unjust application. He paid tribute when He needed to. Since He has already gone through the mortal experience and is no longer subject to the vagaries of this existence, I don't believe that He will be as compliant to man's laws as He was while mortal. He will now assert His laws over man and will dissolve man's processes before becoming subject to them again. Every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ. Case dismissed.

Answer 5

It has been tried, but I don't recall any successes.

Logically, it is not really possible. To sue, you'd have to admit that God exists. If God exists, then all that exists (including what is being sued over) is God's. Therefore, you'd have no standing in court.

Answer 6

They've tried, but they can't seem to get the subpoena served. LOL..,, Yes the ACLU has put God on trial more than once. This is how they support themselves. By threatening to take small communities to court and then in order to save money the little communities settle out of court. It's unethical as hell, but it works.

Answer 7

The problem is that God is tried in absentia and usually the court's juridiction doesn;t entend that far

Answer 8

no longer that i'm responsive to. yet, he became into brought about to alter his strategies over particular necessary themes. ahead of the tries of the State of Utah to connect in with something for the status of 'A State' (i think of it became into the way it incredibly is termed), God had informed those human beings in Utah (Mormons) that it became into very nicely to take any type of better halves at that component. Utah's bid to connect something of the States became into denied them because of the fact of their rules concerning to Polygamy (or 'Having distinctive mothers~In~regulation'), and while God heard this, no longer wanting to fall foul of the yankee rules, He replaced His strategies and had one in all his Angels bypass it directly to a minimum of one in all their Brethren who became into in time-honored communique with Thee Head workplace. And so it got here to bypass. Sash.

Answer 9

Probably the closest example is Exodus 32:9,10 KJV
9 And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

10 Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

Moses makes an appeal to GOD. He also gives the grounds for his appeal by forming a logical argument

11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?

12 Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.

14 And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Answer 10

How can you sue someone that doesn't exist, except in the churches?

One could surmise the closest anyone has come to suing "god" are those who sued priests that raped in the rectory.