If I could truly understand God, would he be worth worshipping? If God controlled my actions, meaning I had no personal responsibility for my actions, how could I truly worship him? Can a robot love God?
God did not create man as an inanimate object. He created us in his image, meaning we have the ability to love, and it's opposite, the ability to hate. God, of course, hates no person, but he hates the evil things we do. God is good because he is able to love us despite ourselves. H. -----Original Message----- From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 7:00 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Religious Jews (was: Circumcision article link) So you worship and revere something you cannot ever hope to understand. Something that has no responsibility for anything you do, yet something whom you ascribe 'Goodness' to. Interesting. -Gel -----Original Message----- From: Howard Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] We are responsible for our actions, which Jesus clearly taught. It's a foundational belief of Christianity (and conservatives). We choose to do good or we choose to do evil. We choose to embrace God or we choose to reject God. These are all personal choices. We choose to honestly seek the will of God, or we choose to use God to puff up our own egos and ambition (as countless religious leaders of all stripes have done throughout the ages). God is responsible for neither the good we do nor the evil we commit. When we choose to judge God by either the good or evil we observe, then we are choosing to look at God through a dark glass, unable to fully see his glory or his grace. If you flip a quarter 10 times and 7 times it comes up heads, do you conclude that the 11th quarter flip has a 70 percent chance of coming up heads? Or do you conclude that it has a 70 percent chance of coming up tails (to even things out)? If you guess either answer you are wrong, because no previous quarter flip has any bearing on the next quarter flip. Every quarter flip has exactly a 50 percent chance of coming up either heads or tails. The odds never change. But if we take only a limited view of these laws of probability and deduce a 70 percent marker, then we are seeing through a darkened vantage point. We are not seeing the full truth. We cannot judge God, if we wish to be so presumptuous as to judge an infinite being, on the limited and finite random acts of good and evil we might observe. We have only a limited understanding of the nature of God and the universe he created because we have only a finite ability to observe his infinite being. H. ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
