to sin, because he's god? but we can't do it because we're mankind?
i'm not trying to convert anyone (as someone said in answer to my last question) i just want people to open their eyes to their own beliefs, admit that their are some flaws and hypocrosies, then make an educated decision whether or not they want to continue to follow it.
why are people so afraid to look at their own beliefs objectively? does it all go back to god not wanting adam and eve to eat from the tree of KNOWLEDGE? why is god so afraid of people learning?
2007-04-20 04:34:20 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dust - i don't lump all christians together, sorry if the question came across that way. i am going by the majority though
2007-04-20 04:45:52 · update #1
I am no longer a Christian but I can't help but answer your questions.
If you create something that you want to function the way to made it, would you not have the right to take it back and redo something and if it still does not work to your likings would you let it loose or would you destroy it? I do not think that God committed murder to those people He claimed He just created. They just simply were recalled products.
From your questions I am sure you are just one of those who like to open up an eye of those you thought are closed to the truth.
I applaud your good intention for that.
Being jealous. Yes, He said that in Exodus after Moses was able to bring the Jews out of Egypt. In the Ten Commandments, He declared that He is God, He owns His people, so there must be no other God that His people must serve but him. Would your father or mother be not jealous if after all the care and attention they gave you aside from being born by them, you go to your neighbor and tell them I am going to love and choose you as my parents?
Sin? why will will sin to Himself? Is not sin a disobedience to His laws? When do you think He disobeyed His own laws? When He allowed or instruct the Jews to kill the enemy? When He did not not stop Tsunami from killing hundreds of lives in Indonesia? Are you sure He killed them or are they man's stupidities against nature is the one that caused it?
About people dying everyday in Iraq, was it God or those who like to play God that kills this people?
Adam and Eve, it may be the fruit of the tree of Knowledge of good and evil but would you not think that it can be a test on both of them as to how far can a man obey an instruction? The sin not about being knowlegable of the good and evil but it is plainly about disobedience.
You can see that in you when you were just a baby, whenever your parent tell you not do a thing because "something" might happen, you become curious to find out what is that "something."
Now, who is not objective? You are more blinded by your own disbelief that you do not seem to take a more serious thought about your questions first before you strike and judge the Christians as blind.
2007-04-20 05:15:41 · answer #1 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jealousy is not a sin. God calls himself a jealous God. To be jealous means to be at the top and see other people wanting to be at your level. The Bible condemns envy, which is to see the person at the top and wish that you were him.
God is not afraid of us learning. If he was, we would not be as advanced as we are today.
God did not want Adam and Eve to eat from the tree fo knowledge of good and evil because they already had that as they came from God himself. To eat of this tree would then be a sin as they wanted to be independent of God.
The text mentions that there were two trees in the garden. The tree of knowedge of good and evil and the tree of life.
Adam and Eve were only forbidden to eat from the knowledge tree, not the tree of life.
When Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, sin came into the world. The wages of sin is death. Since all men sin, we all deserve death, therefore it would not be murder because they are getting what they deserved in the first place.
2007-04-20 04:41:47 · answer #2 · answered by kitty21 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...If you would take time to study the character of God, you would discover He is infinite, all-powerful, and every decision He makes will always show Him to be holy, perfect, and right. God fears nothing and needs nothing from us - He owns the cattle on a thousand hills.
...Finite, puny human beings are dead in sins and trespasses (Ephesians 2:1-2), and have no business whatever, thinking or trying to order the Lord around, or demanding anything from Him- He owes us nothing.
...Scripture tells us God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
...He did not leave us hopeless. At the right time, Christ died for the ungodly (us) (Romans 5:8).
...If you want the mind of Christ, you must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ - you would become saved, and come into a relationship with God - then you will start to be able to understand the Lord, but not before you repent and believe the Gospel.
2007-04-21 13:54:48 · answer #3 · answered by carson123 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am glad to see your learning, To answer your question Why is god jealous of other Gods? The answer is because there is no other God who can save his (us) children. so if he lets you believe in another God he loses you to eternal Hell and the creator of it the devil, who was cast out of heaven and is not a God as he does not have all power. God who is the creator can and does let death come upon us he can and will cause death to come upon the wicked. We were made by him and we will all experience death. The true key is every one who has been born to this earth will as a gift of God, by the Grace of Jesus Christ receive their perfect body upon the resurrection. That is they will be perfect some one born with a problem will receive a perfect body as well as those who were born with and lost a arm or leg. You take a toy away from a child for punishment once in a while, God views death much the same way. He knows we will receive our body's again never to have it taken away. Now as for why we have to go through that process? We have to learn the very lesson it teaches of how valuable our body is along with many other lessons witch include but not limited to how how bad we feel when a loved one passes away from this life. He will feel the same hurt as we feel with any soul is lost to everlasting hell.
2007-04-20 05:07:35 · answer #4 · answered by saintrose 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you are going by your own diluted perversion of what God is. Please look at what your beliefs are objectively. Adam and Eve were not robots. He did warn them, they were tempted and fell out of grace.
You need to open your eyes, and question your own flaws. I am very well educated and I will continue to follow Jesus. I have never heard a Christian say God is allowed to murder, never. If this is such a majority please post a poll. Give us some proof not just blabber.
2007-04-20 04:52:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. Here's a technicallity, sin is a word that only applies to humanity. It is literally impossible for God to sin as he is governed by no law. When they say God is a jealous God, they are referring to the fact that He does not want second place to anything. In other words, no gods before him. In as far as murdering is concerned, like I said before its not quite the same. I wont pretend to have all the answers. I'm a Christian myself and I have many questions about God. Analyzing things without taking them out of context is key to understanding who God is, even if we dont always understand what he does. I dont know if this helped at all, but thats my answer. Have a great day.
2007-04-20 04:41:51 · answer #6 · answered by u4ric_chick 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Look am not Christian, and by my standards, God isnt just worthy of worship because Hes God.
Hes worthy of worship because He is All Fair, All Just, The Source of All. That to which all the heavens and earth belongs.
That which has created me, gave me life, taught me right from wrong.
I repeat, God is Just. He is All Fair. This is outlined in the Quran. Nothing happens without a reason.
And since I know and believe that God is Just, I cannot say: God murders.
2007-04-20 04:43:11 · answer #7 · answered by Antares 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians don't want to think about those questions because then they will loose faith. They just ignore all the stuff that doesn't fit into their preconceived notion of a loving God. Now the churches are saying that the OT doesn't even matter because Jesus freed us from the old laws, so most christians don't even bother to read the OT anymore. They don't even know what their religion is about. It's just "pass the plate" and "Jesus loves you more than you'll ever know"
2007-04-20 04:42:10 · answer #8 · answered by bandycat5 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
so what are you saying? If God was not just, then He would not be God. But why wouldn't you believe in a God that loved us enough to make a way for us to stay out of hell? God is holy and we are not, and God cannot be in the presence of sin- so there had to be separation. We made it impossible for God to allow us to be in His presence. However,He has made it possible- through the blood of Christ. Instead of thinking about the punishment that we deserve, hell and death, think about the life and eternity that Christ paid for on the cross.
2016-05-19 21:44:12 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God isn't jealous like we are. The author of that book of the Bible used a metaphor to make God a bit more understandable for us. God is "jealous" because we shouldn't worship or devote ourselves to things other than Him. Money is a good example.
God isn't afraid of people learning. He encourages it. Why would He have given us the capacity to learn if He didn't want it to happen?
2007-04-20 04:39:26 · answer #10 · answered by charlie h 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋