Is it OK to judge God?

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Blik

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God ordered man to kill animals as a sacrifice, to cut skin as a mark of belonging to Him, of never eating food from animals that fed on garbage as a reminder to only feed the mind with cleanliness, to not mix fabrics as a reminder to not mix with pagan ideas. So many commands that we could judge God for. Is it OK to judge Him?

We could see all of God as only Holy and good and in everything, simply learn from Him or we could judge God.

Judaizers take all of God’s commands so seriously that they obey some of the physical commands. Others are so opposed to Judaizes they are careful to never do anything the Jews do, using that as a guide to their behavior rather than the Lord. What does the Lord want us to do about these things?
 
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Blik said:
God ordered man to kill animals as a sacrifice, to cut skin as a mark of belonging to Him, of never eating food from animals that fed on garbage as a reminder to only feed the mind with cleanliness, to not mix fabrics as a reminder to not mix with pagan ideas. So many commands that we could judge God for. Is it OK to judge Him?

We could see all of God as only Holy and good and in everything, simply learn from Him or we could judge God.

Judaizers take all of God’s commands so seriously that they obey some of the physical commands. Others are so opposed to Judaizes they are careful to never do anything the Jews do, using that as a guide to their behavior rather than the Lord. What does the Lord want us to do about these things?
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If you are in court facing a judge, does it do any good to judge the judge? When God is the only and absolute standard then we have nothing to judge. We hear, abide, and obey.
 
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Blik said:
God ordered man to kill animals as a sacrifice, to cut skin as a mark of belonging to Him, of never eating food from animals that fed on garbage as a reminder to only feed the mind with cleanliness, to not mix fabrics as a reminder to not mix with pagan ideas. So many commands that we could judge God for. Is it OK to judge Him?

We could see all of God as only Holy and good and in everything, simply learn from Him or we could judge God.

Judaizers take all of God’s commands so seriously that they obey some of the physical commands. Others are so opposed to Judaizes they are careful to never do anything the Jews do, using that as a guide to their behavior rather than the Lord. What does the Lord want us to do about these things?
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isaiah 55 . Your ways are notmways my ways are higher than your ways .. god tells us what to do, we dont tell
Him what to do.
 
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those who judge God better have a whole lot of shares in sunscreen products........
 
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What you didnt know is that at judgement God will judge us through Jesus Christ, but we will also be judging God. He will have to explain Himself and the actions that He decided to take in our lives. Its not literally but technically we will judge God and His works in our lives. People do not realise this. If God was fair, He would have to answer for the times we came to Him for things and He didnt do it seemingly. He will also be explaining what happened when we prayed to Him. Obviously our judgement of God would be based on His intervention in our lives and of course God does a good job, always. So we wont be able to condemn Him or His actions in our lives. Its just like Job where He explained Himself and Job couldnt answer Him, or condemn Him for His intervention.
 
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Blik said:
God ordered man to kill animals as a sacrifice, to cut skin as a mark of belonging to Him, of never eating food from animals that fed on garbage as a reminder to only feed the mind with cleanliness, to not mix fabrics as a reminder to not mix with pagan ideas. So many commands that we could judge God for. Is it OK to judge Him?

We could see all of God as only Holy and good and in everything, simply learn from Him or we could judge God.

Judaizers take all of God’s commands so seriously that they obey some of the physical commands. Others are so opposed to Judaizes they are careful to never do anything the Jews do, using that as a guide to their behavior rather than the Lord. What does the Lord want us to do about these things?
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Perhaps you could define "Judaizers" as you are using the term. I don't think that word means what you think it means.
 
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God's Words to His Church not only requires us to judge/call out those members who 'oppose/stray, etc,' His WORDS-COMMANDS',
but, we are to 'spank' them in our LOVE, in order to bring them 'BACK INTO His Bosom, 'no matter the 'cost'...
 
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Dino246 said:
Perhaps you could define "Judaizers" as you are using the term. I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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there are many questions we must searvh scripture for the answer to to determine the Lord's meaning. How does the Lord look at the difference between Jews and gentiles? What was the Lord's purpose in establishing the Hebrew race. God gave the Hebrew special training, why? Who were the gentiles when God established the Hebrews. And then the main question: we are not obligned to follow Jewish customs, but there is no definition of what is a Jewish custom and what the Lord wants us to do, how do we determine what is from the Lord. Many say this is determined by "if the Jews do it, we must not do it". Yet the jews pray, and we must pray so that test of Jewish custom doesn't stand up.

We can only use the only test that does stand up to test of what we should listen to God about and what we are not obligated to do is the test of love. Love is the basic part of any command the Lord gives us. Also, there is a big difference between commands and suggestions for the best use of our earthly time. How do we decide on this?
 
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Iamabeliever said:
isaiah 55 . Your ways are notmways my ways are higher than your ways .. god tells us what to do, we dont tell
Him what to do.
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I don't believe that I ever told God what to do but there have been times that I strongly suggested a course of action that He might consider taking. Fortunately, He ignored my suggestions as He had a better way and solution to the task at hand.
 
Dino246

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Blik said:
there are many questions we must searvh scripture for the answer to to determine the Lord's meaning. How does the Lord look at the difference between Jews and gentiles? What was the Lord's purpose in establishing the Hebrew race. God gave the Hebrew special training, why? Who were the gentiles when God established the Hebrews. And then the main question: we are not obligned to follow Jewish customs, but there is no definition of what is a Jewish custom and what the Lord wants us to do, how do we determine what is from the Lord. Many say this is determined by "if the Jews do it, we must not do it". Yet the jews pray, and we must pray so that test of Jewish custom doesn't stand up.

We can only use the only test that does stand up to test of what we should listen to God about and what we are not obligated to do is the test of love. Love is the basic part of any command the Lord gives us. Also, there is a big difference between commands and suggestions for the best use of our earthly time. How do we decide on this?
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I didn't ask for an evasive lecture; I asked for YOU to define "Judaizers" as YOU are using the term.
 
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Dino246 said:
Perhaps you could define "Judaizers" as you are using the term. I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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Do you think that scripture is the authority, you are the authority, or I am the authority? Who decides what Judaizer means, you, I, or scripture?
 
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Dino246 said:
I didn't ask for an evasive lecture; I asked for YOU to define "Judaizers" as YOU are using the term.
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As I asked you to give the answers to the questions we must go through to determine God's definition of Judaizer.
 
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Blik said:
God ordered man to kill animals as a sacrifice, to cut skin as a mark of belonging to Him, of never eating food from animals that fed on garbage as a reminder to only feed the mind with cleanliness, to not mix fabrics as a reminder to not mix with pagan ideas. So many commands that we could judge God for. Is it OK to judge Him?

We could see all of God as only Holy and good and in everything, simply learn from Him or we could judge God.

Judaizers take all of God’s commands so seriously that they obey some of the physical commands. Others are so opposed to Judaizes they are careful to never do anything the Jews do, using that as a guide to their behavior rather than the Lord. What does the Lord want us to do about these things?
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If someone would be ignorant enough to try and judge God, by what standard would you use to judge Him?

Since morals are not subjective but objective and come from God you would have to borrow from God and his standard of morals in order to judge Him. How do you think that would go?
 
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Blik said:
Do you think that scripture is the authority, you are the authority, or I am the authority? Who decides what Judaizer means, you, I, or scripture?
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The word, "Judaizer" doesn't appear in Scripture, but it does have a standard meaning within the Christian community, and I don't think you are using it in the standard sense. That's why I asked you, very specifically, what YOU mean by the term.
 
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Blik said:
Judaizers take all of God’s commands so seriously that they obey some of the physical commands. Others are so opposed to Judaizes they are careful to never do anything the Jews do, using that as a guide to their behavior rather than the Lord. What does the Lord want us to do about these things?
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Huh? Breathe? Eat? Sleep? Gosh :unsure:
 
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