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As you read this, please know that I AM a Christian. I simply have questions.
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A man is speeding recklessly in his truck when he runs a stop sign and plows into a small car coming from his adjacent left side. He is fine, but the woman and child in the car he hit are badly injured. He quickly gets on his cell phone and reports the accident; within minutes paramedics arrive, and one of them even makes a comment on how if the man had not reacted so quickly, both of the passengers in the car would have died.
Because of the man’s quick reaction, he saved the woman and child…but a troubling fact is that if it had not been for HIS actions in the first place…the two people would have arrived home safely with no life-threatening injuries at all.
Should the woman and child THANK the man for SAVING them? Would they be thought of as being ungrateful if they did not, but rather responded in anger?
This story reminds me of how I feel about God many days.
Everyone says that Jesus was sent to save mankind from sin…but…who is responsible for this sin that we so desperately have to be saved from? Man is BORN with a powerful inclination to sin; from the moment we take our first breath we are sinners…did we ask for that? We are BORN with emotions and feelings that were are commanded not to express…or it is a sin. We are commanded not to love a world in which we are born and live in…the only world we know.
There is temptation at every corner, every day of our lives, but to give in to that temptation…is a sin.
Sometime…I feel that we are set up for failure from the very beginning. Everyone says that “God doesn’t want robots”, and that we have free will. But you can’t place a juicy stake in front of a starving man, and threaten him with eternal damnation if he even THINKS about eating it!
If you don’t want your child to play with a loaded gun…then you don’t keep a loaded gun in the house. It’s that simple.
If God so desperately doesn’t want us to sin then why does he even allow sin to be in our hearts?
It seem that Jesus (one-in-the-same with God) was sent to save us…from the car crash that HE created.
AGAIN...I am a Christian...I just have questions.
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A man is speeding recklessly in his truck when he runs a stop sign and plows into a small car coming from his adjacent left side. He is fine, but the woman and child in the car he hit are badly injured. He quickly gets on his cell phone and reports the accident; within minutes paramedics arrive, and one of them even makes a comment on how if the man had not reacted so quickly, both of the passengers in the car would have died.
Because of the man’s quick reaction, he saved the woman and child…but a troubling fact is that if it had not been for HIS actions in the first place…the two people would have arrived home safely with no life-threatening injuries at all.
Should the woman and child THANK the man for SAVING them? Would they be thought of as being ungrateful if they did not, but rather responded in anger?
This story reminds me of how I feel about God many days.
Everyone says that Jesus was sent to save mankind from sin…but…who is responsible for this sin that we so desperately have to be saved from? Man is BORN with a powerful inclination to sin; from the moment we take our first breath we are sinners…did we ask for that? We are BORN with emotions and feelings that were are commanded not to express…or it is a sin. We are commanded not to love a world in which we are born and live in…the only world we know.
There is temptation at every corner, every day of our lives, but to give in to that temptation…is a sin.
Sometime…I feel that we are set up for failure from the very beginning. Everyone says that “God doesn’t want robots”, and that we have free will. But you can’t place a juicy stake in front of a starving man, and threaten him with eternal damnation if he even THINKS about eating it!
If you don’t want your child to play with a loaded gun…then you don’t keep a loaded gun in the house. It’s that simple.
If God so desperately doesn’t want us to sin then why does he even allow sin to be in our hearts?
It seem that Jesus (one-in-the-same with God) was sent to save us…from the car crash that HE created.
AGAIN...I am a Christian...I just have questions.
