Christian Needs Help With Questions?
I’m a Christian trying to find some answers?
I just want to know why my God seems to be such a hypocrite. He gives us free will & says we can do whatever we want because of it… yet when we do whatever we want he punished us, even when our free will doesn’t interfere with others free wills. According to the bible, our “lord” flooded the Earth because people were using their free will, why did he take away human lives & interfere with free will. Killing someone takes away free will! God said he gives free will as a chance for us to prove to him that we will make the right choices, yet he has killed people before they could prove to be good through their free will. Not EVERY SINGLE PERSON except Noah & his family could have been evil or that would be statistically impossible! After this event he apologizes & says it will never happen again. It sounds like God is admitting a mistake, even though I’m told he is perfect. Ive heard the whole conscience tells you the difference between right & wrong thing, but what about sociopaths. Psychology has told us that some people are born with antisocial personality disorder (a sociopath, that’s basic psychology there, most psychology books will explain it further) & are born without a conscience & they don’t feel any emotion toward doing things we normal people deem as evil. It isn’t their fault they were born with the inability to know right from wrong. Why would God punish people in afterlife for committing one mistake in our current life? That doesn’t seem fair at all. I know there is Confessing your sins, but what if they kill themselves, then they don’t have a choice to confess sins. It’s their life to take isn’t it? I’m against suicide by the way. I’ve also been told that when we accept the lord & savior Jesus Christ into our lives & hearts we are free from sins, but what if we commit a heinous, despicable crime after we accept him into our lives? Does the fact that we’ve accepted him earlier cancel out our future evils? Adolph Hitler accepted Jesus as his savior & I’ve been told that the only reason God didn’t accept him into heaven was due to his suicide, but what if he hadn’t killed himself? Why would God let someone such as Hitler who violated many of God’s rules, into heaven if he had confessed his sins before he died? What about mental illnesses, didnt God our omnipresent super-being create those??? If someone with a mental illness, is cast out by family & friends & cannot seek help for problems he doesn’t know about, kills others & “sins” repeatedly due to the mental illness affecting their mind, wouldn’t that be indirectly God’s fault. YAY GOD =)
Category: Sociopathic Friends
Answers
Answer from MMMM
Time July 29, 2010 at 2:44 pm
Im just going to try to answer part of this since it is so long maybe someone else will try another part
Mental illness
There was no mental illness when God created the earth. When Adam sinned, humanity fell from their created position & sickness, including mental, entered the picture. It came about because people used their power of self-determination (what you are calling free-will) to go outside of God’s will for their lives. Mental illnesses are not punishment by God or created by God but the consequence of original sin. God instructs us to have compassionate relationships with those that suffer mental illness (support the weak, comfort the feeble-minded) 1 thess 5:14
Answer from Witnesso
Time July 29, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Just because we have free will doesn’t mean we can throw away God’s teachings & commandments. Imagine telling your son he is free to play on the playground. Well although he is free outdoors on a playground doesn’t mean that he can go around killing people. I know that’s extreme but that’s similar to our free will with God. Free will is more of the ability to make our own choices & not be robots rather than being allowed to throw away rules.
As far as sociopaths & people with a mental illness nobody know where they will spend eternity so I dont think we can judge God’s methods when we dont know the whole picture. If someone is mentally ill & they do kill someone I really doubt God will judge them harshly if they dont know right from wrong. I can’t think of anybody out there that is so mentally ill that they dont know killing is wrong. I know teenagers that can’t talk or use the bathroom that know that hitting is wrong.
There are always people who get saved when they are young then dont live out Godly lives so I dont know where they will spend eternity I only know that God will forgive them if they kill someone if they sincerely long for repentance.
I know I probably didn’t answer all parts to your question but I’m too ADD to sit & read your whole question then remember what I was going to say.
Answer from Boxxjock
Time July 29, 2010 at 8:22 pm
I didn’t read very far before I came to the conclusion that this is all just a misunderstanding on your part. The misunderstanding being that you dont know what a real Christian is.
Answer from Blessed
Time July 30, 2010 at 12:08 am
abraham truly preached do whatever you want, but He added; remember God will judge you for your sins.
if a person truly believes in God & righteousness & a better society that is based on obedience, if they do anything less than this, than it could be concluded a person doesnt really believe.
sin is not a cancerous ribeye rotting in the desert heat. No, sin is a well packaged heavily thought merchandise product that starts out sweet but, then becomes the rottting steak in the heat.
our lord created these bodies & this life & understood the conspiracies of men that follow satan & warns us of things to come to be obedient for health & a more fulfilling life.
Jesus is our ultimate judge & he is full of grace & mercy, & forgives the truly repentant, that is not hypocricy that is love!
Answer from Homer Jones
Time July 30, 2010 at 3:31 am
Wow, that was too long for me to remember all the questions.
Here’s my question: If you are a christian & love God, why are you calling Him a hypocrite & questioning everything about Him?
Answer from shark
Time July 30, 2010 at 4:03 am
I didn’t have to read very far to see that God is not your God.
you insult him & criticize the almighty & then claim him as your own?
get real.
He did not destroy free will,
we still have & have always had free will,
there are consequences to our actions.
you expect God to let people into his presence that mock him & insult him,and continue to live in sin,NO.
they make their decision who they want to serve,
and one more thing,Hitler did not get saved,he was a catholic,and a catholic by name only also.
you dont know the Lord God you claim to serve.
you might want to re read your bible.
Answer from shark
Time July 30, 2010 at 4:13 am
you do not sound like you even know what a Christian is .
Answer from digital_
Time July 30, 2010 at 5:05 am
1. God does not directly punish us for our free will choices, instead – we are not protected when we chose to do things that are against his will.
You have heard of “You reap what you sow” – our punishment is the result of our own doing – not Gods. So it is wrong to place blame for bad choices people make on God.
God admits that man is born into sin, & that man is inherently flawed. This greives God.
Anyone can be accepted into heaven if they sincerely repented, that includes people like manson or hitler. If you made such a horrible mistake & wanted to repent, should we offer the same priviledge to you?
Mental illness is again, a defect of man’s physical body. The bible gives consideration for those lame & unable to comprehend the bible. Their trespasses are forgiven as they do not know.
You seem to have a lot of outward concern about God & people, have you looked at YOUR relationship with God?
Answer from doramy
Time July 29, 2010 at 1:44 pm
God gives us freewill to love Him or hate Him, If we love Him we will follow His law because it is best for us. If you do not follow His law you are saying to God that you want nothing to do with Him. Since God is the source of all life & you are saying to Him you want nothing to do with Him, you are asking for death.
God punishes people in the afterlife if they do not want Him into His life. His punish is called ‘Hell’. Hell is the exact opposite of Heaven. In Heaven you have all the characteristics of God, while in Hell you don’t. If you do not ask for forgiveness from your sins you are saying you want nothing to do with God, which is asking for death/Hell.
If one kills one’s self, that person is saying to God, ‘I want nothing to do with you & life.’ Since killing is a sin & you cannot ask for forgiveness you will not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven because you made it very clear that you do not want life. Life can only come from God, therefore living will be in Heaven. Also, your life is from God & belongs to God, you have no right to say when one can live or die.
You can still be forgiven after you accept Christ into your life. God knows that we will always fall short after we accept Him into our lives, however, the desire to sin should be reduce because we want God in our lives’.
Adolf Hitler could of went into Heaven, however, He never become a true Christians. His actions proves this because if he were a Christian he would do Christian actions, such as stop killing homosexuals, Jews, & other people for no good reason.
God can allow anyone into Heaven because the wages of sin is death. Christ Jesus’ death can be put in placed of yours. This means that your sinful actions will be placed on Jesus’ death. It is from Jesus that people can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Mental illnesses, & all illnesses for this matter, came into the world when sin entered into the World. Being sick is not a fault of God, but it is a fault of man because we choose to be separated from God when Adam sinned against God.
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