Isn't managing Earth's inhabitants like managing an ant farm? I hear people say that we can make him cry by being bad or unresponsive. Why would he even care? How would he know? Why would he want to torture us if we're not worth messing with?
2007-11-19 06:21:27 · 22 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Best answer goes to the one who can tell me why God needs us.
2007-11-19 07:20:48 · update #1
Good question. He doesn't.
He created us to display his glory and because he loves us and wants to share existence with us.
The only time Jesus cried was when someone died - and remember death is caused because we sin. Think about it.
2007-11-19 06:24:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Genesis 1:26 says "Let us make man in our image according to our likeness. One of God's main qualities is love and that's why we're here. You can't impart love if you don't have it yourself.
If he didn't care for us he wouldn't have created us with our five senses. He could have made us robots, but he didn't...he gave us free will. And provided things like breathtaking sunsets, chocolate, funny little kittens, etc.
The fact that he does care so deeply for us is evidenced by letting His beloved son be sacrificed for our sins. It must have been awful to see his Son tortured and die a criminal's death. I guess it could be compared to putting our child through a grueling, painful surgery knowing that it's going to be worth it in the long run.
He even holds out an invitation for us to be his friend in James 4:8 - "Draw close to God and he will draw close to you."
The believe of a fiery hell is a common belief. But the Bible has something very different to say on the subject:
Ecclesiastes 9:5,10 "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all"
Romans 6:23 - "The wages sin pays is death" not torment.
Where did that doctrin come from? Would you believe from the Greek, Aristotle?
The New Catholic Encyclopedia, in its article “Soul, Human, Immortality Of,” says that early Church Fathers found support for belief in an immortal soul, not in the Bible, but in “the poets and philosophers and general tradition of Greek thought . . . Later, the scholastics preferred to make use of Plato or principles from Aristotle.” It states that “the influence of Platonic and Neoplatonic thought”—including belief in the immortal soul—eventually was inserted “into the very core of Christian theology.”
2007-11-19 06:53:47 · answer #2 · answered by ldybugg93 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why does an artist need their art? Art allows the artist to express themselves. If a solitary artist is shipwrecked and cut off from everyone else, would they still enjoy creating art?
The last question makes no sense. When have you actually seen someone being tortured by God?
2007-11-19 06:39:17 · answer #3 · answered by Tommy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not need us nor does He need anything else. He wants us. He created us for fellowship and love. We grieve Him because we don't acknowledge Him, because we are ungrateful to Him and we are unaware our need for Him. Everything and every person that is breathing is right now is because of the goodness and love of God. We are totally dependent on Him and most people don't even know that. We need Him, not the other way around.
2007-11-19 06:29:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God does not need us. But he has the right to correct us because he made us free moral agents. Everything he has made whether visible or invisible brings praise to him and his great name.
We the human race rebelled against his way of rule and challenged his right to rule, so he has allowed us to rule over the earth to prove if we can.
Now you look at history and tell me if you think we are good at ruling ourselves? Or just look at what's going on right now in the world and see if you can say we are successful at ruling?
This is why we need to follow his word the bible.
Start at John 17:3. Ask yourself why you pray the Lords prayer but don't look to see what you are asking for? Daniel 2:44
2007-11-19 06:39:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
[Isn't managing Earth's inhabitants like managing an ant farm?]
and yet ant farms continue to sell and fascinate.
2007-11-19 06:24:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are a million billion trillion unanswerable questions Christians can never answer, never think about, never wonder about and could care less about. I once asked a Christian "science" teacher (NOT Christian Science, but a guy who was a Christian who taught science in a christian school), i asked him how the earth could stop spinning on its axis like it says it does somewhere in the old testament. His answer was, "any God who could create the universe, could certainly stop the earth from spinning for a few minutes if He wanted to." So, don't ask too many questions ever expecting real answers. People who don't think, never think about things they don't think about or ask about. Why else do you think they hate science so much? Christians equate science with liberalism and democrats because it dares to question and think.
2007-11-19 06:28:57 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have wondered that myself. If I were God I would have lost patience long ago with the human race. ZAP!!
That proves he is more loving than I am. Why does he care? It must be his loving nature. The Bible says he knows every feather on a bird. The Bible says he loves us but we keep rejecting Him.
Sounds to me like WE torture Him. But He is God and we can only push him to a certain point...........
2007-11-19 06:33:11 · answer #8 · answered by Ruth 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
John 3:16-17 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[a] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
This is enough for me!
2007-11-19 06:25:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
You might as well ask why does a father or mother need their children since they're so much more mature and superior.
He cares because He loves us. He knows because He knows everything. He doesn't torture us, but when we make bad decisions we live with the consequences.
2007-11-19 06:24:38 · answer #10 · answered by Acorn 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
God Loves You And You Have FREE WILL which Means You Can Do whatever you want....till Judgment day...so If You Disappoint God With Your Chooses the will hate to let go what he created!...You............Jesus Loves You
2007-11-19 06:28:04 · answer #11 · answered by Micheal J 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋