Your God is all powerful correct?Then where was he when the child was abused and
raped or murdered?You God can see and knows all, correct?Did your God not know this was
taking place?If your God knew this.Knowing it was taking place why did your God not stop
it? |
In those questions, you're not the only one asking them. Millions of people ask the same
questions each day.
"GOD does permit wickedness, and millions on earth willfully make a practice of it. For instance,
they declare wars, drop bombs on children, scorch the earth, and cause famines. Millions smoke
and get lung cancer, practice adultery and get sexually transmitted diseases, use alcohol to excess
and get cirrhosis of the liver, and so on. Such people do not truly want all wickedness stopped.
They only want the penalties for it eliminated. When they reap what they have sown, they cry
out, “Why me?” And they blame God, as Proverbs 19:3 says: “A man’s own folly wrecks his life,
and then he bears a grudge against the LORD.” (The New English Bible) And if God stopped
their evildoing, they would protest their loss of freedom to do it!
Jehovah’s main reason for permitting evil is to answer Satan’s challenge. Satan the Devil said that
God could not put men on earth who would be true to Him under test. (Job 1:6-12; 2:1-10) Jehovah
allows Satan to remain to have opportunity to prove his challenge. (Exodus 9:16) Satan continues
to bring woes now, to turn men against God, as he tries to prove his challenge. (Revelation 12:12)
However, Job kept integrity. So did Jesus. True Christians do now.—Job 27:5; 31:6; Matthew
4:1-11; 1 Peter 1:6, 7."
God can see and know all, but if he did know all.. knew our futures, would it be fair? Say, for
example, God looked into the futures of Adam and Eve. He, knowing they would sin, created
them. Its like a father giving his children a task that he knew they would fail at. Its senseless.
SAY IT RIGHT:
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotton son, ho so ever believes in him shall not
perish but have ever lasting life.
I still fail to see how quoteing a bunch of well known bible verses is talking about evolution. Like
others have said, same old stuff, just 30 posts later.
By the way if I want bible verses told to me I would just read the bible. |
Like i've said before, there, for some words, are no direct translations so we must take other
similar words to capture the same idea or thought. It also, says the same thing. I'm sorry that you
fail to see what i'm saying. For some people its easy to grasp, for others its not. I'm not saying
you're not intelligent... I don't even know you. If you've got some questions, please ask and i'll
do my best to answer them. I'm not simply quoting Bible verses... I'm backing up my claims.
Backing up what i'm saying.
Doreen: it is believed by some that God is neither male or female. Being the end all
powerful being he has no need for sex and such.
I believe however that God is a guy because in Genesis it says God created man in his
image. |
Though i'm not Doreen, I just wanted to comment. True, we don't know what God is... male or
female... He is called 'he' in the Bible, like Doreen pointed out, because of the masculine
qualities given to him. Such as strength, allmighty, powerful and so on.
Man created in Gods image -
"In disclosing to his “master worker” the divine purpose to create mankind, God said: “Let us
make man [´a·dham´] in our image, according to our likeness.” (Ge 1:26, 27; Pr 8:30, 31; compare
Joh 1:1-3; Col 1:15-17.) Note that the Scriptures do not say that God created man in the image of a
wild beast or of a domestic animal or of a fish. Man was made “in God’s image”; he was a “son of
God.” (Lu 3:38) As to the form or shape of God’s body, “at no time has anyone beheld God.” (1Jo
4:12) No one on earth knows what God’s glorious, heavenly, spiritual body looks like, so we
cannot liken man’s body to God’s body. “God is a Spirit.”—Joh 4:24.
Nevertheless, man is “in God’s image” in that he was created with moral qualities like those of
God, namely, love and justice. (Compare Col 3:10.) He also has powers and wisdom above those
of animals, so that he can appreciate the things that God enjoys and appreciates, such as beauty
and the arts, speaking, reasoning, and similar processes of the mind and heart of which the
animals are not capable. Moreover, man is capable of spirituality, of knowing and having
communication with God. (1Co 2:11-16; Heb 12:9) For such reasons man was qualified to be God’s
representative and to have in subjection the forms of creature life in the skies, on the earth, and
in the sea.
Being a creation of God, man was originally perfect. (De 32:4) Accordingly, Adam could have
bequeathed to his posterity human perfection and opportunity for eternal life on earth. (Isa 45:18)
He and Eve were commanded: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.” As
their family increased, they would have cultivated and beautified the earth according to the
design of their Creator.—Ge 1:28.
The apostle Paul, in discussing the relative positions of man and woman in God’s arrangement,
says: “I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is
the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.” He then points out that a woman who prays or
prophesies in the congregation with her head uncovered shames the one who is her head. To
enforce his argument he then states: “For a man ought not to have his head covered, as he is
God’s image and glory; but the woman is man’s glory.” Man was created first and for some time
was alone, being in God’s image by himself. The woman was made from the man and was to be
subject to the man, a situation unlike that of God, who is subject to no one. Man’s headship,
nevertheless, comes under the headship of God and Christ.—1Co 11:3-7."
And to say that God would not allow anyone to change the translations of the Bible?So if
I was to re-write the Bible and say forget a chapter and go to South America the chapter would
re-appear? What if it is His plan to not have specific thing revealed before its time? How would
we know that? |
No, most likely if you did that, it would not reappear, just as Gods name hasn't reappeared in
many of todays translations. But as for taking every Bible around the entire world and destroying
them... it can't be done. Actually, it is his plan to have specific things revealed at specific times.
Such as the 'disgusting thing,' and Christs presence, 1914.
As human beings we are trapped in a limited understanding of what is going on around
us. If the Bible is your shield of choice then so be it. It is a guide and I reject any ideas that it is a
rule book. Even if it is, apparently as human beings, we can't seem to get it right for Christianity
seems to change as time moves on.
Anyway, I just see that evolution can easily fit into the Bible. Creation and evolution seems to go
hand in hand. |
Yeah, it seems as traditions change, so does religion. But my religion doesn't have traditions
because many traditions come from false religions.
Thats your opinion and I respect your choice, but I believe creation and evolution are the
complete opposite and I believe that evolution has no place in the Bible.
so the devil is to blame ... else we would still frolic around naked in paradise (not sure if
Christians would really enjoy that )
now if only God would have been smart and would have written the Bible in English the ones that
could have read the real thing have chosen to remain Jews anyways. |
Yeah, the Devil is to blame for the most part. The Bible was written in Hebrew and in Greek and
not English, because the writers wrote in those languages... I don't think English was even a
language at the time of the writing.
I would like to point out, with all due respect to r3fr, that the Jehovah's Witnesses are a
reasonably small subsect of Christianity and in no way demonstrative of the whole. I have no
problem with them, but I think it would be responsible to specify what particular flavor of doctrine
is being expounded upon so exhaustively by our friend r3fr. There are radical differences
between Jehovah's Witnesses and most mainstream Christian denominations. Those differences,
like a lot of what is being posted, is off topic, fortunately. |
True, we are small (roughly 6,000,000 currently) 'subsect' as you put it, of Christianity and we
don't represent all of Christianity. Though, we've been around for quite some time, not always
know as Jehovahs Witnesses or 'Russelites' (which we NEVER called ourselfs). Spanning back to
Abel.
Yes, i'm sorry, but, not to be rude, I didn't want my religion to be associated with the other
religions that claim to be Christian. I'll try my best to stay on the topic of Creation and Evolution.
