Shouldn’t God Be Questioned?
Posted by IT CommentatorSep 16
As in most other situations in your life, the best strategy is to analyze and make a judgment, not just make a judgment and justify it through biased analysis. The latter only creates circular reasoning and logical fallacies.
There are too many people out there who blindly believe that God, however you define it (though especially in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam), is completely perfect because it says so. This leads some to claim that they would do anything their God/god asks them to do, even if it contradicts other morality, simply because they trust that everything it does has a purpose and that this purpose is good. Isn’t that empty morality, anyway?
If you say God (again, however you define it) is the source of morality and can freely change this as it wishes, then you are advocating the idea that its punishment ultimately determines good and evil, i.e. the end justifies the means.
This thinking is very backwards, and very wrong.
I, too, am agnostic and for the very reason that I question the existence of god and Christian theology, and I can recall sitting in Sunday School as a fairly young person and wondering whether or not god might be a fabrication by adults to control children! I have spent many of my adult years in the “quest for enlightenment” and have studied the esoteric concepts such as Qabala, Tarot, Astrology, et al., along the way so as to acquire as thorough a metaphysical education as possible. Personally, I am incapable of faith or of believing in organized religion, and I accept scientific theories as logical, yet I do think that it is impossible to know beyond a doubt either that a creator does or does not exist.
God never changes was, is, and will be the same tomorrow. He is not willing that any should perish. God doesn’t force Himself on anyone. the punishment for sin is death and Jesus died for all. Accept that Jesus is Lord or accept the punishment.
I agree that that kind of thinking is wrong and backward. The God of the Bible is not a wishy-washy God. If someone is portraying Him that way, then they don’t know Him all that well. God is faithful and just, meaning He doesn’t change on a whim. God does not contradict his own morality. If He did, He wouldn’t be much of a God, and you are free to call Him on the carpet for that.
The god of Islam has changed his mind several times, and in fact Islam has a doctrine called “Abrogation” that teaches that Allah has the right and ability to change his mind at anytime for any reason. Most Muslims don’t realize this nor will they recognize this as a major difference between Allah and Jehovah God. How can you trust a god that changes his mind whenever the mood strikes him?
I know, some of you will point out seeming contradictions in the Bible as times when God changed His mind. And there are in fact times when God did aquiesce to the prayers of His people. But when you take the Bible as a whole, and look at the major theme of God’s character, it is the same from cover to cover.
I can’t argue with you… Yes, god should be questioned.
But hold on… How does one question a non-existing being? Let’s try this approach: Perhaps the very first question that ought to be asked of god is:
“Hey you! Are you there?”
… and when no answer is received, all additional questions can be safely set aside forever. (I’m sure you can understand why this is true.)
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LOL… But Todd, what happened to omnipresent and omni-effing-perfect-in-every-way?
You fool yourself, boy.
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May be the persons believing in God should be questioned!
God should be questioned as to why He doesn’t get involved with the religions. None of which are able to agree on God.
We are to test or try God to see if what He says is true! Example Malachi chapter 3 where it talks about tithing.
It could be that we don’t understand what Gods is really saying about something. Many religions (in fact most) claim beliefs that aren’t really from God nor does the bible teach them. A little common sense can go a long way!
you make pretty clear since to me mind u i pity ur words but I’m not sure if I should follow u. I know ur not requesting anything for me to follow but I’m afraid so Ill just wont join and trust instinct but u have a nice and understanding mind don’t get me wrong..Just ‘m gonna stick to myself on this one.
After you analyze and make a judgment based on your own morality does that judgment (presuming you have moved on that judgment) remove the error standing in the way of truth? Or are you deceived into thinking that your moral high ground speaks for itself and you continue to live a lie?
Jesus said, No-one comes to the Father except through Me. Do I believe it because I have analyzed it? Made a judgment? Or does the Spirit of Truth invade my moral high ground and speak a witness to my spirit that then cancels the lie.
You will find, if you can get past your head space, your ingrained logic and take your blinkers off, people actually do make decisions to believe in a God they can trust because they have a choice to do so, they have found the one they have been searching for (you know, the one they have analyzed and made a judgment on) the one that gives them the peace that passes all understanding (yours included).
You stand critical to the point of being deceived, and uninformed if you think that people go in blindly, searching for the Truth, crying out for the truth and the Truth is not there to meet them. You do not respect another person’s standpoint, experience or revelation – you just rely on biased analysis.
Don’t you think that each of us has our own journey. That each of us must work out our own salvation with fear and trembling (in other words – dont rely on your own logic without God – that is a Utopia bound for the distopian rubbish tip). You clearly don’t understand or want to understand a God who loves you – is He perfect – yes He is – but if I define perfection from man’s point of view I am relying on biased analysis. I just have to get in there and find out for myself. To know Him is to love Him and see that His perfection transcends my understanding of perfection. I can either grovel around in the dust or look up to the One who created Me, the One that died for me on the Cross and seek Him and find Him and know that He is the Truth – that sets me free!!!
No!!!!!!!! Never.
I started as agnostic so I can sympathise with the position that your question seems to imply.
I think it depends on the question. I think everything in the Bible should be questioned as a rule (like evolution/creation debate for instance) due to my belief that science will continue to give evidence to what the bible already says.
When I was still in my agnostic belief system I believed that I had no contradictions in it and questioned Christians especially as to how they could so ‘blindly’ believe. I am still trying to find one contradiction in the Bible and have had no luck unless I take the scripture out of context.
There are some questions that should not be asked though (or at least questions that there should be no need to ask) an example is ‘why did Jesus die for me?’ although there are answers to these types of questions Jesus offered us a gift and how long should we spend questioning the gift before we choose to accept it.
It should also be remembered that questioning something should count towards what you believe in as well as what you don’t believe in. Science is questioned far less than it should be because people think to themselves ’science doesn’t claim to know everything so if its wrong it’ll find out the truth eventually’. But, if science did discover evidence of God and found that the Bible was valid, wouldn’t people want to know that before they died? Before it’s too late?
i think that sometimes god is right and great but sometimes people just push a little too hard
god should NEVER be questioned
I don’t believe it is okay to question God. I do believe it is okay to question the Bible. Man wrote the Bible and man determined what should be known to the public. It is through questioning that we have learned that there are other parts of the Bible that people somewhere decided should not be included. Through questioning we will eventually learn whether these other parts of the Bible are worthy of our respect.
I think God does live by His own righteousness just as He expects us to however He is God and to question Him is a natural thing to do but is also dangerous because one question can lead to others until you end up questioning things you have always known to be true and that isnt good for you God or anyone, so its important to trust God irregardless of how things appear because after all He is God who could know better than Him, not us anyways.
And remember your questions won’t be answered For SURE.
It is hard to picture in this day and age, but imagine going before a mighty king whose word is the law. You complain or question him. He has the power to have you killed for any reason. You would have to be incredibly foolish to challenge his authority.
I have cursed and sworn at God. I have told Christ I hated him. But that moment, when I deserved to be struck by lightning by a vengeful God, he showed me grace. So I am not going to question God when he has already been kind to me when I did not deserve kindness. I am not going to repay his kindness by challenging him even more and insulting him.
Certainly the people who claim to know god or speak for their god should be questioned. Intensely.
Like whether or not it is a coincidence that the personal and/or political opinions of their god always seem to be in total agreement with their own.
If God created us, He created us with the ability to question Him. If He gave us this ability, for us not to use it what would be the reason to give it to us in the first place. the reason could only be part of God’s test if we were worthy enough or not to join Him in His kingdom of glorious love, so if you question Him you will show yourself of not being of proper faith, and will go to hell, so don’t question Him even though you can….it’s totally up to you……..hell…….fear……..God is love….tilt
actually the bible describes several people challenging G-d and questioning his morality.
the story of sodom and gomorrah, for example. G-d tells abraham that he is going to destroy the towns and everybody in it, and abraham is horrified and challenges him, saying “shall not the judge of the whole world deal justly?” he then pleads the case of the innocent people, and because of abraham’s words, G-d agrees to spare the towns.
in your heart when you do something do you know if it is right or wrong
The Bible has not one word written by God. So, that leaves a lot of room for interpretation. If God didn’t want us to question, then he’d not have given us the ability to do so.
you are right. if that were true. Yet is quite a surface OPINION .
Blindly believe GOD is a understatement.
The HOLY SPIRIT is GOD’s gift living in Born agains= Christians
Interesting , thoroughly thought.
he and his fairytale book shall be questioned
GOD should never be questioned. Let HIS will be done.
Your question is too deep.. this is the internet remember
Yes.
No matter what you say, God is and will always be moral…He is the just God and knows what’s best for us regardless of how we feel.
Let me ask you a return question, if you created a robot, wouldn’t you like it to do what you ask it to do?