Leading people to war and so on. Letting Jesus bring back Lazarus from the dead and heal the sick. Where was the free will there?
2007-04-16 07:25:10 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Perhaps he was a Type A personality....
I never could quite reconcile that one and years ago when I questioned the good Reverend on that I was told that I had no freewill it was an illusion given by the Devil and that my pattern of sin was set. I was 15 years old when I was told that, and that was the day I walked away for good.
I took that to mean that religious leaders have no idea how to handle that question and will go to any length to avoid answering it.
2007-04-16 07:31:17 · answer #1 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He never lead a war. He just blessed them for the right things they do and sometimes even leave them to their defeat if they disobey Him. Disobedience is when they become wicked.
Jesus is not part of the Old Testament. In fact, bringing Lazarus back to life is one of his follies against God because he was merely showing off. Christian religion thought it was good because he was trying to prove that God is with him or He is God incarnate.
Psalm 69: 5 You know my folly, O God; my guilt is not hidden from you.
That part of David's poem is not from his own experience because David's guilt had been known by the whole members of his palace.
This was a mistake by someone prophesied to make folly and only God and him will know. The whole world know that Jesus is perfectly sinless. Yet. nothing can be hidden between him and God the same way we cannot hide our mistakes from him no matter how successful are we in hiding it here on earth. God did not even interfere when Jesus was doing it wrong. So, what are you talking about?
Try remembering why would Jesus say on the cross,
Matthew 26:46 "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" If he was not expecting a miracle from God to save him.
Religion said he was just fulfilling the prophesy. Prophesy is not about being fulfilled as if it is scripted but it is about what was seen will happen. Did God interfere?
2007-04-16 07:54:05 · answer #2 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God can give us free will and still express His preference (and the consequences of doing something else). The fact that people choose to do His will doesn't take away their free will. God's actions would only contradict free will if He took it away.
What does the example of Jesus bringing Lazarus back from the dead have to do with free will? there's something here I'm not getting.
2007-04-16 07:32:48 · answer #3 · answered by a 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i think of the main "Logical" reaction from some Christians could be "God works in mysterious approaches previous our thinking", it very genuinely covers maximum questions approximately God. despite the fact that to human beings like us that's no longer a pleasurable answer. that's unusual thinking that an all-understanding all-powerful being that is familiar with each and every thing could create us just to deliver us to eternal damnation. i've got faith that existence is sort of a storybook. The pages are already revealed and the story is predicated upon activities that have happened past. All we are at precise now could be at a definite internet site. If that's clever to you, then you definately could see what it may be unusual for a respected, benevolent being to do some thing so merciless as to punish us for some thing he finally has finished administration over. there's no longer something to assert that if there's a God, he's no longer inevitably Christian. i actually would be seen as Agnostic Deist*. to diminish a protracted tale short, my perception is "If there's a God, then he's no longer concerning himself together with his introduction", this would be a logical reaction to the two "Why can no longer we see God?" and "God works in mysterious approaches". Now, in simple terms as a results of fact we've not got administration over our very own destiny it does no longer propose that existence isn't in simple terms a "shallow lie". existence is a tale e book, and we are the two the characters and the readers. properly, it truly is my very own opinion of it besides. And somebody/some thing DID write the e book. you will desire to look into Deism and Agnosticism. could provide you some thing interesting to envision. EDIT: God could no longer care in case you beleive in him or no longer, there won't additionally be any effect. If he's in actuality all-loving, ever affected person and all-knowledgable, then he will comprehend why you do no longer beleive in him, and he will in no way hate you for it.
2016-12-16 07:32:59 · answer #4 · answered by girardot 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A free will does not mean we do everything alone or unassisted and it doesn't negate the ten commandments; thus, if a nation goes to war, for example, God does not interfere one way or another, even thou, many historical or literary sources infer God's assistance--God's commandment is--"Thou shall not murder".
2007-04-16 07:31:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Having a will that is free is utterly futile unless you have freedom of action.
If you want the Truth.....Ask a Pagan.
2007-04-16 07:37:10 · answer #6 · answered by Terry 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is God...so there was no issue of free will there. And if you will read, you will see that when leaders succeeded in their battles, and in life, they always sought out God and listened for his direction before acting. When they acted against God, He showed them the error of thier decision so that they would remember to follow God's ways. God has our best interest in mind...if we use our free will to seek God's will we will always come out better.
2007-04-16 07:31:19 · answer #7 · answered by Jennifer W 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
God only acted when man humbled himself and asked. Just so happens that there always was at least one man that stood out and did this.
Jesus being God -- He was asked.
2007-04-16 07:31:43 · answer #8 · answered by JohnFromNC 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What a stupid question............
God doesn't interfere with anything...
Here's how, ever you, can avoid be so confused about life:
"religion is Spiritual fraud"; "religion is the Worse invention of humanity" - Jesus Christ, Buddha and any one else with Spiritual intelligence.
Without God, there is No Love; Without religion, there are No Wars!
atheists = all the people in religion
2007-04-16 07:30:26 · answer #9 · answered by drwooguy 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
And if he gives us free will and doesn't get involved, what's the point of praying for help ?
Believers always waffle when I ask that question
2007-04-16 07:27:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋