In Ezekiel20:25 it states that God says that he intentionally gave out bad laws, how can a perfect God do such a thing under any circumstance. This could lead one to suspect any of God's laws or commandments.
2007-06-01 15:23:19 · 16 answers · asked by Progeny Rising 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I question God by his word and his book. In other words he either is what the bible says he is or he isn't!
2007-06-01 15:28:17 · update #1
You didn't answer the question Mariah
2007-06-01 15:28:43 · update #2
thanks Bebe you have proved my point. Either God is perfect or he not but he cannot be both!
2007-06-01 15:29:56 · update #3
I am reading from a New Living Translation(my NIV is at home) and it says, -I gave them over to worthless customs and laws that would not lead to life.- He is very upset with them because they will not follow him, they are rebelling against him. I believe God is talking about the laws and customes they made themselves instead of abiding byt eh ones God had sent. I will look at some other versions and see what I come up with.
2007-06-03 09:06:07 · answer #1 · answered by *Kimmie* 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Matthew 7:6
2007-06-01 23:15:24 · answer #2 · answered by Micah T 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God says He gave them over to bad statutes.....this means He let them follow their own useless ways, because they would not follow His. Are you intentionally trying to confuse, or are you just careless? Here is what it actually says, with context:
Ezekiel 20
23 Also with uplifted hand I swore to them in the desert that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries, 24 because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees and desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes lusted after their fathers' idols. 25 I also gave them over to statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by; 26 I let them become defiled through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn [a] —that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD.'
2007-06-01 22:30:57 · answer #3 · answered by Lazarus 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
If you read verses 18 to 26 you might understand it better.
He is saying that some of His people had not executed His judgments, but had despised His statutes, profaned His Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.
Therefore He also gave them up to statutes that were not good, and judgments by which they could not live;
And He pronounced them unclean because of their ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire, that He might make them desolate and that they might know that He is the Lord.
In this He is not saying that it was His laws that were not good, or His judgments that could not be kept. Instead He says that He gave them up to the laws of their fathers' idols since they were worshiping their fathers' idols.
It does not say He gave them bad statutes, but that he gave them up to bad statutes.
grace2u
2007-06-01 22:36:04 · answer #4 · answered by Theophilus 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ezekiel 20:25 says, "I also gave them *over to* statutes that were not good and laws they could not live by."
*NOT* "I gave them statutes & laws that were not good."
If you'd pay attention to the context (i.e. use your brain) & you were truly being honest, you'd know what it really meant. That is that Israel in its *rebellion* turned & twisted God's good & original Law (that same thing you're doing in your rebellion) into something that was not good & that they could not live by. God simply gave them what they wanted so they'd learn from their mistakes & turn back to Him.
A good companion to this is Romans 7. I pray that when you read His Word the Holy Spirit will move you to repentance.
2007-06-01 22:55:53 · answer #5 · answered by Sakurachan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you would take the verse in context, you would see that God is pronouncing a curse on Israel...and bad laws would be seen as a curse coming from a Just God. The Bible has many evidences of punishments coming down on Israel whenever they did wrong. The New Testament releases all curses..."He became a curse for us"...in otherwords, Jesus became all the curses and punishments and basically took them away.
2007-06-01 22:29:18 · answer #6 · answered by greengo 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
The people had hard hearts, and rejected God and His law. he allowed them to follow them to there bitter end that they might see the truth and that He is God
2007-06-01 23:00:07 · answer #7 · answered by June M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Indeed, Ezekiel admits what Jeremiah denies, that God gave the laws in question, but both acknowledge that earlier Israelite religion expected child sacrifice. The story of Abraham in its present form attempts to change that. This is why we need to use our own moral judgment and not rely on the moral judgment of authors from thousands of years ago!
2007-06-01 22:27:02 · answer #8 · answered by jamesfrankmcgrath 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
yeah you wouldn't think he would do that. Funny, God exhibits many human traits in the Old Testament. Almost like people were making it up, and just thought it was God's word...
2007-06-01 22:31:09 · answer #9 · answered by ajj085 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Thats right Progeny either God is perfect or he is not but he can't be both. That is perfect! I love you Progeny :)
2007-06-01 22:46:43 · answer #10 · answered by Jenny r 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋