He's just watching out for us. Watching over us. It's like a parent helping his kid learn to ride a bike. The parent can only do so much, but the kid has to do the work to really accomplish anything.
God can't make things happen. That would be imposing over free will, and that ain't His MO.
Blaming God on the bad things in life, or the good things in life too, makes no sense to me. It's not like He's up there laughing to himself, "Haha, what can I do to screw up THIS person's life?" Though sometimes it may feel like it, that's not how it is. At least I personally don't believe so.
There is no god. Bad things happen to everyone sometimes and so do good things. WE have to captain our own lives and decide what constitutes bad and good for us and apply it to each situation.
Does God cares for us but can't help? or He can help us but doesn't care?
In my opinion, neither one is true.
God can help you at any point you allow Him to without Him over-riding your will. Your 'will' being associated with your option to make choices.
Example: You get arrested for drugs. You need God's help...so you tell him something corny like...if you help me...I won't do it again. God has the capacity of delivering you from your drug habit and miraculouly getting you out of your big mess. HOWEVER, His help may come with conditions. WHY? Because He isn't as concerned with your mess as He is your heart. Maybe you have a pain inside you eating you alive, maybe you were abused as a child, maybe your self esteem is so low you can't face your own self....maybe any number of things. So, God may say something like "Let's get your heart straightened up and address the REAL problem, then I'll take care of this mess it's created." At this point, it's YOUR choice if you want to move forward within the conditions He has set before you.
Someone giving mental assent that they believe in God and someone giving him access to their heart....is two different things. Rather than facing the root of their problems, they just stay angry because they think God didn't love them enough to care. When in fact, God cared TOO MUCH just to throw them a bandaid. He wanted to heal the entire wound.
One of my favorite scriptures is: You have not because you asked not. And when you did ask...you asked wrong. This doesn't mean you didn't use the right verbage or neglected some man made ritutal. What it means is....you didn't ask with the correct intent of the heart. You just wanted to lose weight...without wanting to address why you over eat in the first place.
There are certainly things in life which happen that I nor anyone one else can explain. There also seems to be a great deal of things which God doesn't explain. But in MOST cases....It's man....not God...who hinders miracles.
For the record, this is only MY personal opinion. I don't debate God's Word because He said NOT TO.
Last edited by Arabess; 15th April 2004 at 9:48 AM.
That was a great reply Arabess! Very clear. I've heard others try to say almost the same thing, but they get all fumbled up in their explanation. Great job!
I believe everyone has a destiny. Everyone has their own roadmap to paradise. My brother was diagnosed with cancer 3 years ago. If they would've waited two more weeks to diagnose him, he would've been gone. At that time to see him go through all that pain was unbearable. He never did anyone wrong. He has a good heart and a good soul.
Why did this happen to him? Well he's in remission now and looks like he'll be cured. But even going through this I learned alot. I learned that I was so comfortable in having a loving family that I in a sense took them for granted. Kinda like how teenagers think they are invincible. That I always assume they would be there. It opened my eyes to so many things I couldn've even know where to start.
God has given us life and the choices to what we do with it. God can't control our lives like the other poster said. He doesn't create diasters or disease. And what Arabess said is the truth. Nice post
Actually, yes, there is a book with that very title written, I believe, by a rabbi. You might want to look it up.
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I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to my fellow creatures, let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
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