... measuring people against His own level of purity, knowing perfectly well that no mortal could approach that standard? Supposedly, the reason Jesus had to die for us is that God needed someone to atone for the sins of mankind who was as pure as God Himself was (i.e. sinless). But why would God require from man a standard He knew we couldn't match in the first place? In court this would be called setting excessive bail...
2007-09-13 06:56:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This isn't actually the way things work. God expects us to "try" and be perfect. We never will reach the level of perfection he is asking of until Jesus returns. Jesus did die for us on the cross, he died for all of our sins... the ones we've committed and the one's we haven't yet. From your tone you are assuming the God is the great being that pretty much has set us up for failure. That isn't true. He has merely given us guidelines to follow, a way of life. They aren't difficult guidelines to obey, and the more we try to live by them the more pure we DO become.
Unlike in court, excessive bail in heaven is like love. God loves us all so much that he only wants what is best for us. To put it another way, if you were a parent of a teenager, and you told your teenager that they HAD to be in bed by 10pm, that they were to NEVER hang out with the wrong crowd and to RESPECT you at all times. Would you not be doing this out of love and concern? God has the same expectations for us. Now if your teen is late coming home one night and isn't in bed by 10pm will you kill them? Disown them? No you wouldn't. You know that they won't be able to live up to your expectations ALL the time... everyone falls once and a while. God knows this too. He's only asking that we TRY as hard as we can, and lean on him when we feel we cannot.
2007-09-13 07:08:22 · answer #1 · answered by Milosmommy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't measure people according to impossible, unattainable standards. People do. Your problem is that you do not understand how the ascent from time and space where you are at now, through the intervening levels to eterntity and infinity is a long long time to become perfected. You can only try to reach ideals now, you can not attain them in this one short stint as a material being on earth. So, don't give up seeking all that is good, true and beautiful. Keep on truckin' and tryin'. It's your thoughts and intentions that God looks at.
2007-09-13 07:02:28 · answer #2 · answered by Holly Carmichael 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Man was not created sinful. He became sinful because of his own decision. God provided Jesus to take away our sins. When we have accepted Jesus as our Lord and our Savior, we are declaired blameless as if we had never sinned.
God knew that we could not reach the mark of perfection that is why Jesus did it for us.
I am a Christian. I still have faults. God doesn't see them.
2007-09-13 07:08:29 · answer #3 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knows that we are just "dust", and that we are imperfect. The problem is that you are trying to understand how we can be perfect by our works, but that's not what salvation is all about. God's standard is really high, yes. He knows this. He knows that we can never attain it by our own works. That's why He sent His Son to die for our sins so that we can be saved not by our works, but simply by faith in Him. The Old Covenant God had with the ancient Hebrews failed because it relied upon the promises of the Hebrews. "What you have said, we will do", they said. But they didn't. The failure was on their part, not God's. Now the New Covenant works, because it relies upon the promises of God, not the people. All we need to do now is to have faith in Christ and He will be faithful and just to cleanse us of our sins and create in us a new heart. We don't have to worry about being "good enough" to get into Heaven, because no one is. Christ is the only one who is "good enough", so we can only get in through Him.
2007-09-13 07:07:26 · answer #4 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Apostle Paul prayed to God 3 times to make him perfect. And God said, "My Grace is enough for you."
God doesn't expect perfection. Man is the one that demands perfection from us, becaue he himself cannot be perfect. Which is all self-righteousness is. A silly mind game humans play. Pointing the finger at others and making a big deal out of their faults. So they don't have to take an honest look at their own.
2007-09-13 07:03:17 · answer #5 · answered by THE NEXT LEVEL 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God already knows we are not perfect. He knows we will not live perfect lives like his son. His standards are livable. How do I know? I'm doing so myself. Yes I sin, I'm not saying I don't. But if I am making the best effort to walk with Jesus (Praying, Read his Word, Casting down Satan, Resisting temptations, et cetra) He will forgive me if I sin.
He wants us to live as close to perfect life we can. Praising our Lord Almighty!
He wants his men and women to be men and women of Christ and Christ is perfect. Real Christians want to live like Jesus. Wanting to be as perfect as they can. To live the standards the Holy Bible says.
2007-09-13 07:05:10 · answer #6 · answered by Ryan Marcel 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Your right. That is a level none of us can meet. The means through which we can approach it is the very means that atheists and naysayers reject, so what's the point of mentioning the obvious, right?
2007-09-13 07:03:17 · answer #7 · answered by RIFF 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HE gave us 10 simple commandments. that was all
ADONAI expected from us. and we act as if these
rules are harsh and cruel. do you want to murder?
steal? commit adultry? lie and be lied to? if one
can do it , why can't it be done to you? changes things
doesn't it. it's why we have a court system. so that
perverts can't destroy and mutilate the population.
why would you want a world with no rules? not
even for traffic????????
2007-09-13 07:18:20 · answer #8 · answered by Judy E. T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋