Why do Christians say that the god they worship is good when in the bible he kills so many people, supports slavery, and everything else we find so morally wrong we would give a person life in prison or death for? In the bible Jesus was a very good man. But I don't see how people can see the biblical god as good.
2007-11-11 07:31:25 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Maybe you guys missed this or something. I don't believe in the bible. And How do I tell right from wrong? I have own morals. Not some guy's who died over 2000 years ago.
2007-11-11 07:57:56 · update #1
God only destroyed what was bad. You'll be sad to
know that in 'end times' if your name is not in His Book
of Life, there's more bad news. So God Is Good as He
taught us how to live good Godly lives, but if we choose
not to..........He will be the Judge and judges give good
verdicts and also bad verdicts.
2007-11-11 07:38:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
God has never supported the slavery. The Bible is the record of what has happened in the past.
God gives life and He takes it away. God is good, you do not like Him, too bad. He is God no matter what you think of Him. We can learn a lot about Him through His Word. You can reject him. He needs you for nothing. He longs to have a relationship with you, but He needs you for nothing.
You can keep your opinion about Him, everyone has one.
God is alive. He is real. He gave His Moral Law to you, you do not have it apart from Him. But you can deny Him if that is how you choose to use your free will.
2007-11-11 19:03:53 · answer #2 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I say God is good, because he created man and made him a living breathing soul, when he didn't have to. He gave him a world to rule over and the means to sustain himself. Then when man messes up as we all do; God gives him the means to come to him and ask for forgiveness and gives him an eternal home. What man does in between all of this, he then has the audacity to blame on God. Men kill other men despite God's command not to; Men enslave other men then say God allows slavery; Men poison the rivers and the air, despite God saying he will destroy those who destroy the earth; Men blame God for everything bad, and overlook all the good he does for them. He never stops the rain, the sun comes up each morning, and the moon still lights the night. So the question should be when will man stop, look and listen to how great a God it is I serve, and learn to serve him too.
2007-11-11 15:42:09 · answer #3 · answered by Capri 1230 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1st of all the Bible was written by men. Men who took the Goodness of what God intended & sought to put fear in us to try to "better" us... This is the idea I have about the Bible. God is a kind God. He is Good! Who wants negitivity in their lives? Jesus was sent here to prove to us that as humans we all have the ability to be like him... Once again, GOOD. He was also sent her to give us Free Will... This is where the killings & awful things take place. It's by Free Will... I have studied the Bible the workings of religion vs true spirituality... My idea is that we are given many many lives to try to get it right! Why would God only allow one time on this plain to become a Good Person? Those who chose Free Will to harm theirself & others have a few more lives to live than those who chose Free Will to do good for theirselfs & others... It's who is more evolved... Love & Likeness is what we all want in our lives. The destiny is the same. Some get to it faster than others.... I don't believe that we all start out "bad" & then have to live many more lives to become good. The blueprint you and God have designed on the other side is the path of your life experiences... Another deep topic of learning lessons of life...
2007-11-11 15:43:17 · answer #4 · answered by T. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, you have to know how evil came into the world, and that is through satan, via Adam and Eve. God created us to live forever, but man screwed it up as soon as he got a chance to. We aren't perfect. Only God is. The earth is under a curse right now because of the fall of man.
God is the only righteous judge. It will be He who judges, not man. He doesn't go by man's rules, we're suppose to go by God's. Why do people always get this backwards? Like God has to answer to us? I think not! But, one day, everyone will have to answer to Him. He's the Creator. He is the Judge. We go by His standards, not ours. And that's how He will judge us.
2007-11-11 15:48:15 · answer #5 · answered by byHisgrace 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is good in a absolute sense.
Not like we might refer to someone as a 'good' guy.
His ways are just and right. The fact that people die is not God's doing. It is something that Satan brought to us through the courtesy of Adam and Eve.
If you step off of really tall people and plunge to your death, is it right to blame God for your decision to violate the laws of Gravity? Which God also enacted.
If we violate a moral law that God enacted, is it right to blame Him because we have to live or die with the consequences of our actions.
God provide us with the earth that bears fruit (enough to feed the world's population if mankind wouldn't get in the way) and air to breath and water to drink.
He gas us a home for free, we don't even have to worship Him to get the benefits of it.
That's good to me.
2007-11-11 15:40:35 · answer #6 · answered by deepndswamps 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God didn't support slavery, it was used to explain things in a way that people of the time. And he killed people who were poising the planet.
2007-11-11 15:39:36 · answer #7 · answered by Geo-Star 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi,
Greetings from Costa Rica
i´m acquainted with that apparent contradiction,
and actually there´s a christian book called "Behold Your God" in which all that contradictions are explained at the light of the Scriptures, till in the mind of the student of the Scriptures be none contradiction between the God of the Old Testament and of the Nes Testament, if interested i could hand a copy of it to you, just mail me,....
I´d like to share a couple of verses with you:
6For I am the LORD, I change not; Malachi 3:6
17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. James 1:17
So God doesn´t change, He is the same God in the Old and New testament,...
Have a nice time
Fell free to mail me
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2007-11-11 18:50:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is good, all the time. Often we can't see it that way because we don't have all the facts.
Jesus wasn't just a nice guy; He is God.
2007-11-11 15:35:18 · answer #9 · answered by words for the birds 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
God is good because He causes no evil. All evil is either a direct or indirect result of man's rebellion against God. (You have free will, God did not preordain you to ask that question...)
2007-11-11 15:43:26 · answer #10 · answered by kess 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋