If I am not to use my judgment to decide which god is worthy and which god is unworthy of my worship, just how do they expect me to choose to worship any god at all?
What criteria am I to use if not my own judgment?
And what would it say about me and my judgment if I said yes, the god I worship dorwned babies, and it was good because God did it?
What does it say about them that they've never given it a second thought?
2007-05-31 14:37:26 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Gnosticism addressed this question, and decided the creator of this universe, Jehovah, was evil, or at least imperfect.
2007-05-31 14:41:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Where did you come up with that idea? I've heard of the clergy of Christendom ordering people to avoid reading the Bible, but this is a new one on me!
Of course you must use your judgement as to which god you will serve! In the end, that is what each person is left with. Hopefully, it is a Bible trained judgement. Study that goes to your heart is the way to go. It will give you direction as to what life is and what is truly important. That will allow you to choose well.
2007-05-31 15:17:19 · answer #2 · answered by grnlow 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians like myself might not want you to say the word "worthy" because it seems like you are judging God as if you were supeiror to him. That is only me though. I doubt most Christians are like that though.
Instead of saying judgement, why don't you say "choice" or "selection"? The bible says that judging is wrong and that judging God is definatly wrong because he is perfect.
Who is to say that Christians never gave their belief a second thought? My belief in God never wandered, but my belief in some of the mentions in the bible has.
If they believe that drowing babies is okay, then I would honestly say that they don't know God. He doesn't like to see us killing each other. Plus killing babies cannot be justified.
Plus what would it say about a girl if she were an atheist who believed abortion was okay. Killing your unborn child is no different from drowning babies. Either way, your taking a life.
2007-05-31 14:52:18 · answer #3 · answered by divadaddygogirl 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
first, you will desire to rephrase you question...what form of a God could enable His followers fail, and then enable them to decide on punishment so in accordance with their previous judgements? A basically and gratifying God. He gave us unfastened will and as a result can not interfere with our strikes. yet He set before us, regulations, that we are able to the two decide directly to persist with or push aside. AND He despatched Jesus to die for ALL of our sins, and it replaced right into a cruel, terrible and tormenting death yet He did it for us, because of the fact He loves us. Jesus would have genuinely returned off and forgotten approximately us, yet He did no longer, He went by way of with the crucifixion, torment and each and all the humiliation set upon Him, to pay for OUR sins. So Is a God that did/does all those pronounced issues worth of worship? definite! *<~To Valles Marineris~>* Being created in a ineffective ringer for God, does no longer propose we can be precisely like Him. everyone knows that the creation of a author is oviously no longer exceedingly much as good as this is author. comparable applies to us.
2016-10-09 05:38:44 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe in your last question, I answered that I don't really consider sitting in judgment on the Creator was something I would feel comfortable doing.
Now.....what you have to say about God, that's rather up to you, don't you think?
2007-05-31 14:45:26 · answer #5 · answered by Esther 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, you have been misinformed. Christians do not believe we should not judge whether or not a god is worthy of our worship. Christians believe there is only one God, period -- the one True God.
2007-05-31 14:41:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure who told you that Christians believe that, but I'm pretty sure that they told you a lie.
2007-05-31 14:43:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I chose Poseidon, as " he holds and shakes the earth ".
2007-05-31 14:47:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow i think this is ur first question that isnt about drowning babys
2007-05-31 14:44:27 · answer #9 · answered by Wikisidr 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
. DEUTERONOMY 4:35,39 — Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him. (39) Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
2. DEUTERONOMY 6:4 — Hear, O Israel: The LORD thy God is one LORD. [Note in Mark 12:28-34 how Jesus and a Jewish scribe he encountered understood this text.]
3. DEUTERONOMY 32:39 — See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
4. 2 SAMUEL 7:22 — Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God; for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
5. 1 KINGS 8:60 — That all the people of the earth may know that the LORD is God, and that there is none else.
6. 2 KINGS 5:15 — And he returned to the man of God, he and all his company, and came, and stood before him: and he said, Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; now therefore, I pray thee, take a blessing of thy servant.
7. 2 KINGS 19:15 — And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
8. 1 CHRONICLES 17:20 — O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.
9. NEHEMIAH 9:6 — Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou has made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
10. PSALM 18:31 — For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God?
11. PSALM 86:10 — For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
12. ISAIAH 37:16,20 — O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou has made heaven and earth. (20) Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
13. ISAIAH 43:10,11 — Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior.
14. ISAIAH 44:6,8 — Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
15. ISAIAH 45:21 — Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time: who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside me.
16. ISAIAH 46:9 — For I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me.
17. HOSEA 13:4 — Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me; for there is no savior beside me.
18. JOEL 2:27 — And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
19. ZECHARIAH 14:9 — And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
20. MARK 12:29-34 —And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
21. JOHN 17:3 — And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
22. ROMANS 3:30 — Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.
23. 1 CORINTHIANS 8:4-6 — As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,) But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.
24. GALATIANS 3:20 — Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
25. EPHESIANS 4:6 — One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
26. 1 TIMOTHY 1:17 — Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
27. 1 TIMOTHY 2:5 — For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.
28. JAMES 2:19 — Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
2007-05-31 14:45:12 · answer #10 · answered by Mike M 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋