Did you ever wonder that it might be because if you asked legitamite questions or "put god to the test" that you might find that your leg has been being pulled for who knows how long?
2007-09-28 06:01:10 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no references here...wheres your leg to stand on??
2007-09-28 06:03:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps you misunderstand - have you read the passage you reference, Duet. 6:15-16/Matthew 4:7? These statements refer to provoking God by rejecting Him, not examining Him.
We are invited to examine God - Isaiah 1:18 "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD". Also, Isaiah 43:26. Perhaps a better example is the examination of God's intent to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gommorah, in Genesis 18. Here Abraham reasoned with God, and God agreed to lesson His judgment on these cities. Also, consider Moses' intercession with God for Israel.
If you are sincerely looking for an answer to this question, and not simply provocation, Job 40 gives interesting insight into questioning God.
2007-09-28 06:10:19 · answer #2 · answered by Cuchulain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing in the bible about not questioning God. And you are misunderstanding the verse that says, "do not put God to the test". It means, don't climb up onto a hill, throw yourself off and on the way down remind God His word says that "He will never let you fall".
That is the meaning of the verse.
2007-09-28 06:15:47 · answer #3 · answered by Esther 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The reason we aren't "to test God" is because God wants our trust in all matters. There's absolutely no way we can understand with our finite minds, that which is infinite. God only wants good for us and to "test" Him is to actually DARE Him to be right or wrong.
I would never put myself into such a blasphemous position.
As for your saying that "your leg has been pulled," I could ask you the same thing, dear one. For you clearly don't know Christ. Jesus said, "My sheep hear Me and know My voice." That is why believers know their leg isn't being pulled! We know His voice as well as you know the voice of YOUR loved ones.
God bless!
2007-09-28 06:07:19 · answer #4 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A question is always followed by an answer. God "IS" and until you understand this, the questions are never ending. Also to test God is proof that you have not understood God's Nature, beyond human conceptual mind.
2007-09-28 06:05:35 · answer #5 · answered by Premaholic 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He does tell us to test him.
Malachi 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and PROVE me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
2007-09-28 09:02:44 · answer #6 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Malachi 3:10
"TEST ME IN THIS" SAYS THE LORD ALMIGHTY, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.
2007-09-28 06:07:40 · answer #7 · answered by gone 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i know to never question or ever doubt God. because God is excellent and wonderful ect and he's unlimited.
2007-09-28 06:34:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's not the case at all. By testing God it shows that you don't have faith in his power in the first place. It also implies that you know better than he does. What an unwise course!
2007-09-28 06:04:59 · answer #9 · answered by Steven Colbert 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Actually, it says not to "tempt" God.
Testing is encouraged. St. John the Apostle says: "Test the spirits" (1 John 4:1-6)
2007-09-28 06:05:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Actually we are to "test the spirits" to see if they are from God. The spirit behind your question is not of God.
2007-09-28 06:04:59 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋