For instance, if someone were teased for being bald, it would be immoral for him to have 42 of the taunters mauled to death by wild bears.... BUT.... if God has 42 taunters mauled to death by wild bears, God is in the clear and we are not to question his judgment.
SO.... that leads me to assume that the morality God commands us to obey does not in any way apply to him. Is that because he's God? Because he's "in charge"? Because he "owns the place"?
2007-08-03 13:11:54 · 11 answers · asked by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oops, I meant to ask: Is God excused from adhering TO the morality he imposes upon us..... etc etc?
2007-08-03 13:15:57 · update #1
That appears to be the answer that i get from those Christians who presume to answer it. Of course, they don't phrase it that way. It's usually a theodicy based on God's ways being higher than our own, or contemptuously asking how dare the clay question the potter.
I call it making excuses for God.
2007-08-03 13:22:41 · answer #1 · answered by RickySTT, EAC 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Hi there- hope I can help- I'll try anyway. You might (or might not) be refering to the story in the Old Testiment of the Bible of where a popular prophet was teased for being bald by a load of young people, and, "just because of that", these young people were history ("taken out" by God). If you were not refering to this story- it really is in there! Anyway, it is easy to read a story like that and blame God, but, how about blaming the devil for a change!? How often do you hear people complaining about the devil on this (or any other) website? Yeah, everyone is too quick to blame God. Re my particular example, he (the bald man) was a very powerful prophet and, if he (bearing in mind we are all human), had have moved to a different place or ended up in hospital with stress due to this handful of trouble-makers, many many more people would have died, so God took out the trouble- makers. Satan would have taken out the prophet, which is what he was trying to do in the first place (wanting the majority of the people to suffer in the long-run). So, blame the devil and not God, and, if you don't know God, get to know him quick, otherwise the devil might take you out! Yeah, I wouldn't bother to try to question God's judgement, unless, of course, you think you are better than Him?! I thought that once, briefly, but then decided that I could not even create a fly, let alone people, the earth, and a whole universe, so I then decided that maybe I would give Him the benefit of the doubt! :-) Hope helps. Live long and prosper! The shepherd.
2007-08-03 13:34:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
As you put it, yeah, He's the boss. He made the rules for us, and no He doesn't have rules that He has to follow.
Besides, there's always a reason for His judgements, even if it is to maul 42 taunters (which may or may have not been "children" right?), even if we don't understand it.
The birth and death of this world have already been written... kind of like a play that you haven't seen before, we don't always understand the motivation behind the actions, but the end result is what's important.
I didn't like the way that Romeo and Juliet ended, but it wasn't my story, so I don't get to pick the ending. :) I hope that makes sense, I'm super tired tonight!
2007-08-03 13:55:16 · answer #3 · answered by Amanda L 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well, first of all, they weren't teasing him for being bald. That is NOT what that was about. What it WAS about was a group of "youths" (the Hebrew word used means they could have been as young as 12 and as old as in their late 20s), who were basically saying that Elisha had leprosy. (People who had leprosy at the time shaved their heads.) Also, there were more than forty-two of them. It's just that forty-two of them were mauled.
And it did not say they were killed.
They were threatening a man of God. His mentor and friend Elijah had just been taken, and they were basically threatening and cursing Elisha. It sounds to me, in the passage, as though Elisha was dealing with an unruly crowd, and since there weren't exactly SWAT teams back then to deal with them, God sent His OWN "SWAT team." Makes perfect sense.
I'm well aware that this doesn't answer your question directly, but you HAVE to understand exactly what happened. If one man was being threatened nowadays by a group of people, that could easily number as many as a hundred, what would happen?
2007-08-03 13:23:54 · answer #4 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes. God is the ruler of creation. By definition, a ruler has a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. Think about a government. The police can arrest you, but if you arrest someone it's called kidnapping.
2007-08-03 14:26:19 · answer #5 · answered by Matt W 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Read the Book of Job.
2007-08-03 13:21:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Huh, when does God maul taunters?
God makes the commands, you can either follow or not, its your choice.
If you choose to blaspheme and deny the Holy Ghost, there comes a point that God remembers you no more and you are dead to Him.
God created you, why should He answer to you?
2007-08-03 13:16:56 · answer #7 · answered by Mulereiner 7 · 1⤊ 6⤋
God is not bound by any laws he makes for us.
And don't be too quick to judge him ... because he's going to judge YOU someday.
2007-08-03 14:16:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
God makes The Rules... Play by God's Rules... or you lose
2007-08-03 13:16:34 · answer #9 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Yeah, god gets pissed when he doesnt get his own way :]
2007-08-03 13:15:24 · answer #10 · answered by Shisuren 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋