Why doesn't God come to each and every one of us and tell us the Truth? Instead I'm offered a book written by mere men. How can I be expected to believe what another mortal tells me about the divine? If my eternal soul is in the balance, I want the Truth straight from the source. not by playing telephone.
2007-11-01 16:34:41 · 14 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Peter: God is shy? never heard that before
2007-11-01 16:40:02 · update #1
Dude!........
2007-11-01 16:40:59 · update #2
Hail the I Chong
how much more direct do you want god to be
2007-11-04 12:51:23 · answer #1 · answered by apho 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some would say that he does exactly that my friend. Through the holy spirit which is and was always apart of us. You won't find my brand of truth in a church, just in case you are wondering where I go. The trick according to many enlightened souls is to deal with your ego in such a way that you can here - feel the Holy Spirits guidance. It seems to be a mater of will. Can you seek his instead of your ego's? If you can then they say you have a good shot of having your question answered from within. Nothing teaches us like experience so, I what get in the way of yours nor tell you how it ought to be...
Good luck my friend.
2007-11-01 16:43:50 · answer #2 · answered by Old guy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He does come. You have to be accepting of the truth and listen. He says, "Be still, and know that I am God." As Christians we have to be humble and say we do not know everything...we can't explain to you exactly how we expect you to believe he is real. Know this though, these words are very important, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."(John 14:6) and that is something you need to accept sooner than later.
"Until we know Jesus, God is merely a concept, and we can't have faith in Him. But once we hear Jesus say, "He who has seen Me has seen the Father" (John 14:9) we immediately have something that is real, and our faith is limitless."
Oswald Chambers
2007-11-01 18:59:48 · answer #3 · answered by 1901pink 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He entrusted your soul to you. We were very successful with our own souls. We don't have anyone following us. Everyone who follows God found Him on their own. All God told us to do is spread His message. (And then when we do, we get accused of shoving our religion down people's throats.) Mark 16:15-16 – He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned” It's so sad when the Atheists attempt to dodge the bullet of accountability and blame someone else for their own failure to find God. Try taking responsibility for your own failure to try and find God. It's you who will be accountable to Him for your own soul. No one else.
2016-05-26 23:56:53 · answer #4 · answered by noemi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I was totally left this message on my answering machine that was all "Hey...uh, yeah. I've been watching my earth tube and I saw you double dip when everyone was eating nachos. Not Cool!...Uh, call me back at 548-2938...so Yeah, but not before 8 because I got bowling league...uh, yeah, anyway This was God, you know, from Steve's Wedding?...anyway, bye.....CLICK"
So, yeah, there's your proof...I was pretty ******* shocked at first too. I was all like "Where the Hell does this guy get off? My chip broke and I just dipped the broken piece to get out the other half. What a dick!"
2007-11-01 16:50:37 · answer #5 · answered by Mushaw! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If God provides a divine and unimpeachable sacred text, he corrupts the province of free will he gave us...
Yeah, I'm just making stuff up.
2007-11-01 16:39:28 · answer #6 · answered by STFU Dude 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Your a mere mortal to btw. Dont go off to fantasy. The bible is based on stories by people in the past. The mighty omniscent and omnipotent god is afraid for us to see him.
2007-11-01 16:38:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
God told those mortals what to write down, and they did. so it really isnt a long telephone chain. is actually pretty direct.
2007-11-01 16:38:38 · answer #8 · answered by dbu_44240 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
He has.
He is the author and editor of the Book.
Read it before you disparage it.
If you seek God, you will find Him, and He, you.
2007-11-01 16:53:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, I don't think that it is correct to say that God entrusts our soul to mere mortals. Your soul is your responsibility -- not anyone else's. Secondly, our soul's final destiny depends in large part on how we entrust our soul to God and how much confidence and hope we place in God. Your eternal destiny is "in your own hands", in the sense that God respects infinitely the free will that He has given you when He created you. He will not go against that free will. He does not force anyone to love Him, to trust in Him, to give one's life for Him. But the person who does so will undoubtedly reap a great "benefit": that of eternal beatitude. Eternal happiness consists in listening to the voice of God and faithfully acting upon it, in a spirit of self-sacrificing love.
This being said, God does indeed use "secondary agents" to carry out His Will, to bring about His loving plan of salvation for all men. Why does He often use agents that are themselves sinners (all men have sinned)? Perhaps you can better understand this if you look at the Incarnation. God became man. He became man in order to save man, in order to reveal to man His eternal plan of salvation and the eternal love of God for all. Because of this "Incarnation" (God being present in human flesh and blood, in the person of Jesus Christ), God takes great pleasure in using man as instruments to co-operate in His plan. God does not want to save us except through the intermediary of our fellow brothers and sisters. That is why our religious superiors (Pope, Bishops, Priests, etc.) are truly instruments of God -- even when they are not themselves completely faithful to God, due to their own sinfulness. God created man for fellowship or communion with others: with Him and also with our fellow human beings. God uses man to save man because He desires that mankind co-operate in His loving plan of goodwill.
Don't be scandalized that God uses "secondary agents" to come to us. It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of God's infinite Wisdom and Love.
You speak about a "book written by mere men". If you are referring to the Holy Bible, then I'm afraid you are mistaken. That is not a book written by mere men. It is the living, breathing Word of God, but TRANSMITTED to us through the intermediary of man. Man is an instrument in the faithful transmission of the Word of God: he is not its source nor its primary author.
I hope this helps you, sir.
2007-11-03 02:31:21 · answer #10 · answered by uiogdpm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋