... or are they merely trying to find more victims ... er ... "converts" to appease their blood-thirsty, sadistic Abuser?
How often have we heard that if not for God they'd not care about anyone?
How often have we seen them tell us they love God more than their children, spouse, or anything else of this world?
This week I asked Christians how many would spurn Free Will if it meant the difference between their child living and their child dying. Not one would give up Free Will (God's "gift", don't you know), even if it meant their own child died because of it.
So when they say they "care for humanity", isn't that the same kind of "care" a butcher feels for cows?
2007-07-08 02:23:07 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible does not teach humanity.
The Bible teaches that humanity is sinful, prone to evil and self-destruction. History itself proves this. Look at all the hundreds of millions of people who have been killed over the centuries in bloody war.
Humanism Excludes God
2007-07-08 02:52:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about Him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominate figure in the history of Western Culture for almost twenty centuries. Before the teachings of Jesus influenced the cultures of the world, it was believed RIGHT that the strong should dominate the weak, the young dominate the old, the rich have favor over the poor and men treat women and children as property. The establisment of hospitals, the sciences and a host of other ideals by the followers of Jesus and been huge! The world as we know it is a whole lot better off since Jesus was born!
2007-07-08 03:11:24 · answer #2 · answered by thundercatt9 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think some "Christians" beat the love of God out of people. They lose sight of how they should be loving and instead try to dominate and control people. You sound like someone who has had a lot of experiences with those "Christians".
It is also natural for believers to pin everything that happens on God. God is to blame for everyone's mess. I submit that Free Will is the source of more malaise than God.
A Christian might fear suffering but not death. For us there is an afterlife. It would be sad to lose a child--sad?---it would be devastating---crushing! We Christians believe that death is not the end of things---only a transition. That is why it is consistant and logical for a Christian to choose Free Will.
I'm sorry that you are bitter about the history you've had with Christians. I hope that you find peace of mind.
2007-07-08 02:40:59 · answer #3 · answered by Wild Ape 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that's a false impression, yet an comprehensible one. you notice, Christians view existence as a brief place before Heaven (or Hell . . . or Purgatory), while atheists view this existence as all we've. Pagans are somewhat a various team, yet maximum i've got met have faith in reincarnation, so their view is likely 'i'm right here now, i would be right here returned, i am going with it to be a extreme-high quality place when I return' or something alongside those lines, perhaps something to do with their karmic regulation or their perception that all and sundry has a spark of the divine. Pagans and atheists place greater on existence, seeing as they suspect they return to existence or in basic terms get one possibility. it truly is in basic terms hypothesis and generalization of direction, yet you get the belief. all of us have our motives for worrying approximately humanity, some motives are non secular and a few are no longer. Take care.
2016-10-20 06:51:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh come on give me a break, God does not ask such things of us, you think only of the flesh, the flesh dies & rots. the spirit is what we are trying to save, we want a better life then what this world offers. look around you man, evil is everywhere. (can we save our kids)? if we could why are so many being killed, raped,molested,kidnapped, abused? evil is out of control. the only way to save our kids is to teach them of God who saves their spirit. what is in the heart cannot be removed, teach them good and right, teach them about a savior so when the evil comes they feel they have hope of more then what they have been through here where satan is on the rampage. GOD help us all, this world is evil. a better place is there for the asking.
2007-07-08 02:32:34 · answer #5 · answered by theladylooking 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
not really. It's the kind of care I can give to someone I trust with my entire life, my kids, my parents, anything and everything. Because I know that God loves us unconditionally, more than we are capable of understanding, or of giving. I know God wants what is best for us, His children. You are going to believe what makes sense to you, I'm not trying, nor have I ever tried to convince others about God. You have what you believe and I have my beliefs. We can agree to disagree can't we?
May Peace be unto you.
2007-07-08 02:30:34 · answer #6 · answered by Linda B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You got it all wrong.
Who loves mother, father daughter or son more than me is not deserving of me. or something in the like was said.
Love God over everything.
That is only said in the sense of mother, father, daughter or son bringing you to sin against God.
For example if you accept the faith of your parents if they invite you to be satanist, or commit murder, or any other sin.
God is love, and if you kill your kid for your belief that is not love. God is not thirsty of blood, That has been the devil, the same one who invited Cain and Abel to make the first offer, causing a bond, which the accuser used as an opportunity.
Revelation 5:8
...............For You were slain,
And have redeemed us to God by Your blood.
So what can I say to you :
In the image of Jesus God was among us, and we did not recognized him.
2007-07-08 02:55:44 · answer #7 · answered by Davinci22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if it meant my child would live...then i would give up my free will in a heart beat. I love God dont get me wrong and i think free will is great....but it would absolutely kill me to lose my child because i was too selfish to give up my free will..( on a side note..i have no kids..but still) to me it coincides with though shalt not murder....If i kept my free will and my child died...would that not mean i no more than murdered my child?
2007-07-08 04:26:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God would never tempt us the way that we would have to choose free will or our child.
It is a scary thought that you would take the free will of all the others to save your child. Ohh, that speaks a lot about your sense of humanity.
2007-07-08 02:41:03 · answer #9 · answered by SeeTheLight 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you are really mixed up....
in every world or local disaster....ther christians are the first ones there to help...most charities are christian...
we love God, and he takes care of our children....
you do not yet understand free will..which is a completely different subject than the love of God.,
God is always there to help...all we have to dois ask..
2007-07-08 02:30:51 · answer #10 · answered by Marianne T 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋