2007-06-15 12:45:20 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I guess I have a different connotation of that. The purity laws were to let us know what sin does - not to say that God looks down on us as "unclean."
As for unworthy, one of the ladies in our congregation turned 75 this week and we all took her out to lunch. She's had a tough couple of months because doctors have found spots on her lungs, and they can't figure out if it's cancer or not. So she's had all sorts of tests, and still doesn't really know anything.
Of course, we spoiled her. Everyone brought her a gift and we all cried over the cards. She kept saying, "I don't deserve this." Which made me cry. What I wanted to tell her (but didn't, for fear of embarrassing her) is that it's not about deserving.
Love doesn't take into account what is deserved. Love gives. The point of saying that we're unworthy is just that. We couldn't earn love. No one can. Not because we're worthless, but because love doesn't work that way.
Haven't you met people who try to earn it? They feel that their goodness or their deeds entitle them to something? Those folks can be obnoxious, and prickly to deal with. They can get quite mad at you for not giving them what they feel entitled to.
Or there are those who judge themselves so inferior that they can't accept a gift they don't feel good enough for.
It's not about good enough. It's about love.
2007-06-15 16:04:59 · answer #1 · answered by Contemplative Chanteuse IDK TIRH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not but since when do you get to critique God? Am I the only one who gets twitchy when people start to think that they aren't unclean and unworthy? Ever committed a sin? Ever lied, stolen, created your own kind of god in your own mind? Well then you are unclean and unworthy, welcome to the club. Please consider what that God that you hate so much did for you by suffering through your punishment on the cross.
2007-06-15 19:52:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No you are not. I never bought the whole idea that people are born into sin and we have to Baptize a baby since he/she is sinful. I believe God created us in his image so therefore we cannot be unclean or unworthy.
2007-06-15 19:49:11 · answer #3 · answered by Irish Rider 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not at all. I find the idea of a parent who hates their own children that much utterly disturbing (especially since my mother was extremely verbally abusive to me when I was in my teens and early twenties.) People who see a verbally abusive parent who calls their child names and says they won't amount to anything know something is very wrong. But then many of them don't hesitate to worship a Father God who tells them how terrible they naturally are. I see something wrong with their situation, too.
2007-06-15 21:32:47 · answer #4 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Arm yourselves. Learn the lesson of the Book of Judges. God may fight alongside his people, but he's nothing against superior technology. And this impurity based fella has his eyes set on nothing short of universal domination.
The Universe will be purified. Everything not God will be destroyed. It's in his manifesto. The Qur'an says clearly that all things shall fade away and nothing shall remain except the face of God.
No appeasement, no surrender.
Amen.
2007-06-15 19:52:52 · answer #5 · answered by The Man Comes Around 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Aren't you and me? Compared to a God who is absolutely prefect with no faults, is it unreasonable to think that we should be shunned by God? But it doesn't end there. For some strange reason that I don't understand, He loves us. Why, I have no idea. God loves us so much that to make up for our own sinfulness against Him, He sent His only Son, Jesus to take the place for the punishment that is rightfully ours. We are dirty but can be made clean no matter how long we have been rollin' in the mud.
God Bless,
Elisha
2007-06-15 19:51:42 · answer #6 · answered by Elisha 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i get kind of twitchy at the thought of god supposedly watching me every second of the day and then watching the video of it at judgement. that has to be voyeurism or something!
2007-06-15 19:51:04 · answer #7 · answered by God ◊ Machine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, not at all. You were in His care even before you were born. God loves us and He made you with very unique recipe. There is only one of you. No one else can do the job He has planned for you. He values you a lot and He wishes that you love Him back. : )
2007-06-15 20:16:42 · answer #8 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It made me twitchy enough as a small child to reject Christianity altogether.
It's always been a sign of real love to me, to accept people for who they are.
2007-06-15 19:51:07 · answer #9 · answered by KC 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, you are not the only one.
Ever see the original Star Trek episode: "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
I very much relate to Jim Kirk in that episode.
2007-06-15 19:53:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋