Everything (even the spiritual obey the law of cause and effect) So how can God judge an action which is the only possible result of something else. All behavior is 'caused' by conditioning or is inate. I can't will not to sin if I dont know its a sin , I'm not aware I'm doing it, or I'm too weak to stop it. Which applies to all actions. Even if one person has more or less of a concience then someone else, that's 'caused' by something. If some people are evil then something had to make them evil because God didnt make them that way did he? If he did how can he judge? If they chose evil then what 'caused' them to chose evil? It had to be conditioning or inate, so then how can God judge?
2007-06-07 15:21:02 · 10 answers · asked by wisemancumth 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If what you suggest is true, this is also true of God.
In that case, just like someone falling 100' feet toward pavement, you may not have a choice and God doesn't have to judge. When you go splat, it will be a result of the forces involved in making you leap, which isn't God's choice, but an inevitable result of conditions.
The result will still be the same, regardless.
I don't like pain. I choose.
2007-06-07 15:26:38 · answer #1 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is everything, we are the one's that judge, it is the balance of nature. In order for there to be good, there has to be bad. The yin and the yang. It's part of the wholeness. How can we know it's cold if we haven't experienced hot, we would just know "is", the same applies to every living thing. There alwas has to be opposites in order to attract, and then us as humans with a conscience decide which to choose, depending on our experiences in this and other lifetimes, until our inner conscience finally sees the light and understands that we are all ONE=GOD
2007-06-07 22:31:43 · answer #2 · answered by awakenursoul 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The same way that we can judge someone who commits a crime - we compare their actions versus the legal standard. It doesn't matter if a child molester is born that way or conditioned that way, we convict them for sexually violating children and lock them up.
Second, God did not create evil, He created Adam and Eve with the ability to obey Him or reject Him. Evil began when Lucifer rebelled against God earlier in his failed coup. Adam & Eve chose rejection along with the chance to know good and evil. Lucifer, who was now Satan, did everything in his power to "school" human beings in their pursuit of wrongdoing. God, in His mercy, became flesh to redeem mankind from their evil deeds and remove the consequences of their choice.
The judgment all people now face is how have they responded to that offer of redemption. Those who have rejected Christ will have their sins compared to God's standard of perfect holiness and will remain condemned. Those who have trusted in Christ's sacrifice, will have their sins removed and will be declared not guilty.
You are not the first to argue this point, but I don't think it will be presented more than once on Judgment Day. Romans 3 states that all will be silenced by God's righteous judgment.
2007-06-07 22:52:10 · answer #3 · answered by biblechick45 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You are confusing the teachings of man made religion with the truth about God. All religions, whether Christian or nonChristian, limit God to their concept of what He is. God is more than the Allah of Islam, or the Catholic God of the chain of command. God is above religion and without limit. Religious books, whether the Bible or the Koran or any other so called sacred book, is a product fo man. It only tells part of what God is and how we will be judged.
2007-06-08 09:51:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because God is perfect. God knows everything.
I do not worry about my judgment before God because:
1) God is perfect
2) anything He decides will be just and right and what I deserve......I won't have to argue my case before Him because.....
3) Jesus represents me before God.
2007-06-07 22:28:26 · answer #5 · answered by Dawn W 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As long as you believe that Jesus Christ is Lord Our Savior and that he died on the cross for our sins, you should have nothing to worry about. Just ask for his forgiveness and he will forgive you of all your sins.
2007-06-07 23:25:21 · answer #6 · answered by Whatever 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God will judge without error. I'm so glad he can see into our inner being and not just the outer being.
2007-06-07 22:25:47 · answer #7 · answered by Pearl 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Only God knows...
2007-06-07 22:25:45 · answer #8 · answered by SpiritRoaming 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Good reasoning, but I am afraid that most believers will be completely unable to understand what you are talking about.
That is why they prefer faith over reason and common sense.
2007-06-07 22:26:11 · answer #9 · answered by shericomes 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He won't. The Bible is just a bunch of contradictions. One who doesn't exist can't judge now can they?
2007-06-07 22:24:02 · answer #10 · answered by surfer2966 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋