2007-04-19 11:01:03 · 20 answers · asked by jay or 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He shows love for us by helping us to cope with the messes that we get ourselves into. I fail to see how our mess proves God doesnt love us. The reason he loves us is because he created us.
2007-04-21 12:18:49 · answer #1 · answered by pink.jazzz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe we fail. I don't believe we create such "messes" for ourselves.
It may APPEAR to be that way based on judgment or beliefs you have about what SHOULD be, but I don't believe that.
Life is lived by natural law. When we don't follow natural law, there are consequences to teach us.
Example: If we know we should move on from a bad relationship, but still hang on thinking we're "doing the right thing" it gets worse and worse.
Our soul/spirit wants us to move on from what is destructive to us. But if we don't, it will create bigger and bigger drama to move us forward if we don't do it ourselves.
Mostly it is inaction (when we know better) that causes the "mess". It takes courage to move forward, and take chances with our lives. How many of us have the belief that it is "bad" to "fail"? That stops many from living life fully.
Love means compassion and acceptance. It doesn't matter to earthly life if God loves you or not. Can you love yourself here and now? that is the true test God has for us.
2007-04-19 18:21:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I hope you are not generalising on this.i am not a mess.and i definitely do not fail and any mess i make i clean up.. you need some self worth and i think your god would probably love you no matter what we all have a good side so stop worrying and enjoy your life this is not a practise run this is the real thing earn your brownie points now.
AND I AM NOT A CHRISTIAN
2007-04-23 16:28:21 · answer #3 · answered by Kat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He is such a merciful God,in a light hearted way a Priest once said this to me,God loves fools cause He made so many of us.
2007-04-19 18:05:38 · answer #4 · answered by Sentinel 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is nice to find an easy question like this for once!
God has none of the fallibilities of human beings -- one of the 'typical' mistakes that many people make when thinking of God is that they 'apply' human values to the Almighty, Ineffable, Perfect thing that we call God. This is why they ask 'How can God let the Tsunami happen?'**, and 'Why doesn't God stop all wars?'** or .'Why doesn’t God cure all cancers?'** or 'why does God let children starve in Africa?'**
God is not a 'human' thing - God is unknowable, unimaginable, is an unseen, immeasurable force...we as mere creations do not have the wherewithal to be able to begin to imagine the Immensity, the Power, the Majesty, the True Might and Potency of God. I am always surprised at how few people seem to 'get' this. God is Bigger, more Powerful and more 'Completely Within' everything that we do, think, say, or know, than we can ever imagine...
God cannot 'feel' in the sense that we humans feel. God has perfect Wisdom and has given us all we need to be able to make perfect lives for ourselves here in this Earthly realm, in this period that our spiritual force inhabits a fallible, weak, mortal form. Our challenge is to recognize the need to accept personal responsibility for everything we do, say, think -- and the need to accept that we can only succeed by acting in complete and selfless unity. When we truly accept our 'one-ness' (that we are ‘one’ but we are also part of ‘one’ greater whole) -- we can begin to progress towards the Godhead...the simple and only real 'goal' for all human souls.
In Its Perfection God is pure Love. Selfless (having no self), unconditional (having no conditions), True (having no falsity), and Everlasting (being eternal)...therefore God can do no other than Love us and by manifesting that Love in a myriad of ways cause us to become better creatures. Stumbling, fallible, selfish, unthinking, self-opinionated, fragile, emotional, yet with the potential to be so much more than we can ever conceive, God knows we can become something greater than we will ever be able to imagine in our mortal time.
God's Faith in us is perfect...our biggest problem is that our own Faith in God is imperfect and leads us to make the messes to which you allude. But like a toddler makes a mess when they try to eat, or to draw and paint, or stumbles when they try to walk, and WE know they will learn those skills in due course as they grow -- so we do not reproach them for their failings -- so God knows the potential we have and, in Its Perfect Ubiquitous Omnipotence, God simply and constantly Loves us.
The speed with which the human race achieves its true potential rests solely on the time it takes for us to recognize the need for accepting our unity of purpose, the equality of all beings, and senselessness of selfish acts and behaviour. When everyone realizes, and accepts that we have here on Earth the resources for everyone to be perfectly happy, healthy, and fulfilled we will be one small step nearer to achieving the eternal goal that the Ever-present, Omnipotent One has set before us. Meanwhile we will keep stumbling, messing up, and generally failing…but God will always Love us Perfectly, without fail!
(** I just wanted to add, to be clear, that God has provided for the solutions to all and any of these 'tragedies'. The wherewithal to solve any problem that we face as a species is already inexistence. The tools, the knowledge, the capacity, the economic requirements are all available today to overcome any problem that exists in the world today. It is ONLY the fallibility of humans that continues to ensure that the solutions are not forthcoming/applied...this sad fact is not a shortcoming of God's...but ours...let's be honest we all KNOW what is required to 'stop wars', 'overcome starvation and hunger', 'avoid the impact of tsunamis or other natural disasters'..and YES we already DO know 'how to cure cancer'!-- an I DON'T mean chemo- or radiotherapy!!! I mean REALLY cure it -- BUT there are too many greedy, self interested, selfish, lazy, unmotivated, pig-headed, ignorant, buck-passing, bigoted, etc, etc human beings that the wonderful tools and potential God has already provided is still NOT being put to good use. Our whole purpose here on Earth is to learn that we have more power than we know and to come together to employ it selflessly...then just SEE what we can really achieve...It could take a few years -- or it could take countless millennia -- BUT realize this, TIME is a concept WE invented and has absolutely no meaning for God, it is just a way we measure our fleeting mortal lives! The only creatures we hurt by not realizing sooner rather than later what our purpose is, are ourselves!)
2007-04-19 18:43:21 · answer #5 · answered by fumingpuma 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An age old question with an age old aswer. Analogy: Would a father who has a child no longer love his child if the child does something wrong? Even if the child is so aweful, so mean, hateful, denounces his father, ruins his life, spends all his money, commits numerous crimes, even then his father would still love him.
2007-04-19 18:07:21 · answer #6 · answered by Jenn 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Having a child of your own would give you an infinitesimal inkling of God's love for us. We say we'd do anything for our children, but most of us have limits. Some even disown their children.
God is the perfect parent. Nothing causes him to give up on us. This is both his nature (he never changes) and his love.
2007-04-19 18:07:45 · answer #7 · answered by amazingly intelligent 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God loves us unconditionaly for he is love. Jesus was love personified. It is we who screw things up not God and we do it by reading into His Words things that are not there.. We are told that love is the greatest of attributes for us to have toward our fellow man but what have we mostly got? Undying hatred for anyone or anything we don't understand Ain't it sad?
2007-04-19 18:09:17 · answer #8 · answered by kif 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Don't blame God for the messes humans create for themselves! We all have free will and decide what path to take.
2007-04-19 18:06:31 · answer #9 · answered by Lola 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The same way a good parent will always love their children. Parents don't always like what their children do, but they love them in spite of their mistakes and will always be ready for them to come back.
2007-04-19 18:06:24 · answer #10 · answered by Emma 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋