How to still believe in god after seeing this...
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Sometimes children are born afflicted by the sins of their mother. Drug addicted, malformed babies, cerebral palsy and many other things happen during gestation. God can use what is bad for great things. Perhaps God wanted to use her affliction to stir something in you. You had compassion for her instead of feeling emotionless and numb. Perhaps He's trying to talk to you. Will you listen or walk away? Will you give her a testimony or will the story pass by you in vain?
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Please watch this and maybe you'll understand...this man is awesome! https://youtu.be/84Kj3BfHQuI
Oooohhhh, the ole "God doesn't do stuff the way I would do stuff if I were God" routine... yeah, that's... well. The fact is, that wouldn't be much of a God if He did everything the way a typical human would. Yikes.
To be fair, I have sometimes been known to start sentences with "If I were God..." and then fill in the blank here. Usually something to do with justice for children. "If I were God, I would have an angel JUST to deal with child molesters and that angel would ____" Okay, the fill-in-the-blank part is too nasty to write here, but you get the idea.
God does not do things the way a typical human would. For which I am eternally grateful.
Well said.
Logically, it is an untenable position to assert that "if there is a God, he must run the universe in a way that I personally agree with."
How, logically, can a finite being even pretend to know how an infinite being "should" do anything at all?
There are many logical proofs for God's existence, and even for the particular WAYS that God does things.
But the skeptic seldom deals with logic, as he pretends.
It is almost always an EMOTIONAL argument which the skeptic latches onto.
The arguments all go like this, "I don't personally feel something in the world is fair... therefore there is no God."
This isn't a logical argument, as it breaks down logically - this is an emotional argument.
So who is really more emotional, and who is really more rational... the atheist or the christian?
This isn't to saw we should be without compassion, or that suffering isn't a real problem in the world.
Rather, it is to simply say that "suffering in the world" is NOT any kind of logical argument against the existence of God.
Childhood diseases. Horribly disfiguring accidents. All the evil and pain that exists in the world. Christians and non-Christians alike have been grappling with why such things exist since, well, the moment Adam and Eve stepped out of the garden. Perhaps it will take you more than a handful of posts on a message board to figure it out.
Consider the parable of the Prodigal Son—except put all of mankind in the place of the son who spurned his father and ran away. Was it the father's fault that the son ended up friendless and destitute? Like the father in the parable, perhaps God has something better in store for us if we return to him than what we (humanity) deserve for deserting Him.
Consider the parable of the Prodigal Son—except put all of mankind in the place of the son who spurned his father and ran away. Was it the father's fault that the son ended up friendless and destitute? Like the father in the parable, perhaps God has something better in store for us if we return to him than what we (humanity) deserve for deserting Him.
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I do know this -- it is God's fault! Yes, God had her be born deformed. Yes, God had Nero kill hundreds of thousands of Christians in those early days, and he did the same thing with Hitler, Stalin, and so many other despots in history. Yes, the Trade Center came crashing down for God's good purposes. Yes, I became disabled because of God's good purposes. Yes, my father is suffering through Alzheimer for God's good purposes. Yes, London has been attacked often for God's good purposes. Yes, BLM is for God's good purposes. It's all for God's good purposes. The thing is it isn't always for the good of the person.
He will use some people to do something bad to help one (or more) of the people he has chosen. He will use something as silly as gallstones to cause events who could foresee, but him.
He IS God! We are not! Anything that has ever happened, good bad or who notices, are all for God's glory and the good of his people. If it has happened, then God is working it out for just that -- his glory and the good of his people. Even Satan has to ask permission to do his worse before God either accepts or refuses Stan's wish. (Read Job, if you don't believe me.)
Why? Because he is God!
Got problems with that? Your problems, not God's, because everything works for the good of his people and mostly for his glory!
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He will use some people to do something bad to help one (or more) of the people he has chosen. He will use something as silly as gallstones to cause events who could foresee, but him.
He IS God! We are not! Anything that has ever happened, good bad or who notices, are all for God's glory and the good of his people. If it has happened, then God is working it out for just that -- his glory and the good of his people. Even Satan has to ask permission to do his worse before God either accepts or refuses Stan's wish. (Read Job, if you don't believe me.)
Why? Because he is God!
Got problems with that? Your problems, not God's, because everything works for the good of his people and mostly for his glory!
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John 16: KJV
33 "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."
Sugar-coat what? Suffering? whats is this ""it"" you are talking about.. Does the Bible suger-coat this ""It"" ???
? I have no idea what you are saying here.. Apart from rejecting Christianity does not end suffering.. If you think it does then i believe you are delusional..
Solution to what? world suffering.. No matter what kind of delusional world systen you can think up there shall be no end to world suffering until such time as God redeems creation and establishes His perfect eternal existence.. Human Love is a cushion that softens the blow of suffering or helps heal the wounds of suffering.. But it does not End Suffering and never will..
When did i Ever promote the taking away of God????? I never did.. So stop replying as if i was promoting such a position.. My post was all about opposing such a course of action..
Nope.. God only exists in Christians who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit.. I don't know what new age religion you adhere to but it is not Biblical Christianity..
And you stating the false doctrine that God is in everyone marks you out as a putting forward a false religion designed by the faulty thinking of man.. You sound like a new ager to me..
I would start seeking Gods guidance on things and stop relying on the faulty logic of men...
Proverbs 16: KJV
25 "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."