Id love to know how a bad thing (such as rape or losing a loved one). is really suposed to lead to god?
If someone came to me and said that god planned to have that thing happen to draw me in.
I would tell em to bugger off.
Think of it this way
My partner tells my friend that i hate them, this is to make me spend more time with her. does that sound fair to you.
2007-10-08 18:21:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You lost me at the last part.
"Think of it this way
My partner tells my friend that i hate them, this is to make me spend more time with her. does that sound fair to you."
Vaelav Havel
“Keep the company of those who seek the truth, and run away from those who have found it."
According to St. Augustine
“God is unconstrained by human limitations of time and place, seeing all of our lives simultaneously. The choices we make, such as in this maze, do not undermine God’s omniscience.”
Seek knowledge and find your own path. Be Happy.
Blessings!
2007-10-08 18:30:14 · answer #1 · answered by DrMichael 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
God sure gets a lot of bad press for things he never said or did.
The Bible teaches that God loves us, that we have a problem called sin (that fatal tendency to always want to do our own thing/run our own life by our self), that Jesus came to deal with our sin issue so we could be restored to a love relationship with God. It is sin/selfishness in the world that causes all the problems - wars, murder, theft, etc.
The Bible really says that God has a good plan for our life to give us a good future and hope (Jeremiah 29:11). He promises in Romans 8:28 to bring good out of everything that happens to those who belong to him.
I've had a relationship with Jesus Christ since October 21, 1971. It is the single most important date in the year for me. I define who I am by my relationship with God because it is so important to me. I didn't always feel this way. I have seen some terrible examples of people who said they were Christians and they were jerks. But I don't blame God for their mistakes and misdeeds. I've also seen some Christians who went to great lengths to help me without expecting anything in return. I hope someday you run into the kind of believers who bring honor to God by the way they live. It would bless you so much; I really want that for you. :)
2007-10-09 01:44:30 · answer #2 · answered by LeslieAnn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it doesn't sound fair. a little jealousy in a relationship is good, but that's a bit extreme....
when bad things happen (such as rape or losing a loved one), people want a source of strength; something to depend on and recieve peace from.
so in that way, bad happenings may lead to God.
i'm not sure myself. but it happens sometimes.
2007-10-09 01:29:03 · answer #3 · answered by G.K. 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bad things can lead one to God easily all we have to do is look back in time, just a little bit.
The Un-bomber-Lead people to God
The Oklahoma City Bombing-Lead people to God.
Children murdering classmates-Lead people to God
9/11 New York-Lead people to God.
Where else is one going to go? To Satan?
2007-10-09 02:27:44 · answer #4 · answered by Owl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can read the story of
Act 7:26-29
The next day Moses came upon two Israelites who were fighting. He tried to reconcile them by saying, 'Men, you are brothers; why do you want to hurt each other?'
"But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside and said, 'Who made you ruler and judge over us?
Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?'[a]When Moses heard this, he fled to Median, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.
2007-10-09 01:57:57 · answer #5 · answered by Mosa A 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's about focus, and the way to be fulfilled. When you are raped, or lose a loved one - you are lonely. You feel great loss.
Some people who feel those things are negative, doubtful, and not trusting. They look around themselves for something to satisfy their need for affection, meaning, affirmation, closeness, comfort, and everything seems incapable of doing that. You cannot buy your way out of it. Meaningless sex only satisfies for a little while. Drinking and drugs lead to addiction and death. And then the person may realize - well I am going to die anyway. What am I here for?
So there in th back of the mind of the angry negative person is the thought that religion might fill the place of the great void. And that actually works for them. They start to feel lonely again, and they just become more religious. For some of them, they see that religion worked for a while. But again - there is something missing. They lit all their candles, said all their prayers, and still - utter sadness.
What's missing?
The relationship with God. People tend to get so busy doing religious stuff that they fail to realize that they only filled their life with stuff again. A band aid. The problem remains.
So then they might get real. They might decide to give God one final chance. And that's what I did. When I got real, I committed myself to talking to God, not the religious prayers that religious people do as a duty, but really talked to Him. Even if I was angry.
And then the Holy Spirit made Himself known to me. And I might get lonely, but I blame myself- I refocus on God and some promises He made. I might get angry - but what irrational expectation did I place on whatever issue I had?
And God proves Himself, because I refocus on Him. I place my life in His hands and stay in contact with Him, and He responds. My eyes are no longer on my problems, my issues, what I want, I, I, I, me, me, me, it's on Him now.
So all those bad things are nothing to me. They are history. I am free from what they were, though I remain affected by them because they helped to form who I am. I am not in denial, for I told you what happened to me, but I am not looking back either. I am not acting out of fear of the past. Any weakness I might suffer is promised to be a strength in Him.
And that's how bad things led me to God. Not only that, but I was led to be who I am and that is a person who trusts Him.
2007-10-09 01:37:57 · answer #6 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something that really frightens someone or gives them a serious wake up call.
Your partner sounds very selfish.
2007-10-09 01:39:00 · answer #7 · answered by tercentenary98 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God doesn't make bad things happen. They just happen. Needing help to overcome bad things humbles us and we turn to God who is always there to help.
Your partner needs professional help.
2007-10-09 01:30:25 · answer #8 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If your interested , read what i wrote to mandyjones about 25 min ago. kind of lengthy, he asked " Why do people say that God has a plan for me"
2007-10-09 01:28:41 · answer #9 · answered by ckrug 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋