Dining, Drinking and conversing with several atheists in recent times, have made me realize that MOST of these guys actually believe in a Divine being (let us call him/her, GOD).
How do i know?
Their arguments are less of how we evolved from apes, and more of how (your Great and Mighty Loving) GOd lets bad things happen😪
...and according to scriptures, how He, GOD orders us to do inhumane things - like take slaves, kill women and children, and NOT eat pork.
They seem to just have a problem with the definition of the GOD-concept....🤔
When we imagine or define GOD, We describe him as this Great Divine Male White Spirit who does GOOD GOOD LOVING things ONLY!
(which is false)
...but this apparently contradicts most of the records we have of Him.
To these atheists, it is easier to believe that we evolved from monkeys than to accept that a Great Divine Male Spirit EXISTS who lives above and sees all things.
...who WATCHES down on us all, WITH LOVE!
...and yes, answers when we call!n🤔
But if we can redefine our concept of GOD, perhaps there would be less atheists😎
WHAT IS OBVIOUS ABOUT GOD
- GOD is not all-GOOD. He's done some nasty things too (check your bible before you coman argue).
- GOD does not ANSWER to all prayer requests (let us say he does).
- GOD does NOT do all things.
...and certainly - GOD is NOT moved by your tears (no matter how much pain you think you're in)😪
Ask the poor hungry street kid.
Ask the girl who was raped on her way back from church😪
Ask worshippers who died and were injured in church.
Ask tithe payers who died in abject poverty (okay, wait, you'll have to die first to ask them).
Ask victims of earthquakes and tornadoes...
.
I know you'll NOT ask because WE, HUMANS, LIKE TO BELIEVE THAT OUR CASE WILL BE DIFFERENT...and that GOD will treat us special (okay now!)🤣🤣🤣
Still, Accepting that GOD will not come down and do everythin for you makes life easier.
Admitting that GOD is not all-GOOD and all-LOVING makes the concept of his image more acceptable!
MY ADVICE...should you choose to accept!
- Take care of yourself. Take care of your loved ones.
- Work to take care of yourself.
- Serve your God, but do what you HAVE to do...to take care of yourself.
- Believe that you have what it takes to TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF.
(if there is one thing i am sure of, it is that WE ARE ALL BORN WITH 1 or 2 UNIQUE TALENTS...
..and our stay on earth is all about how we can use those talents to make our stay here more comfty.
See him like a father, who will NOT do everything...yet you still gotta show the respect based on who him be
We are probably all Pawns on a celestial Chessboard, but still...DO YOUR THING!
STOP waiting!
IN CONCLUSION,
GOD is not the problem... It is our views and expectations of Him that is.
Less Expectations = Less Disappointments
Redefine who GOD is to you (based on what you SEE and what you have tested).
Screw that faith thingy!
PS:
Accepting the hard truth that God is okay with things going beyond our control eliminates the power we ascribe to the devil.
It even eliminates him from the equation.
FOCUS more on yourself...and probably on God (you have NO problem with the devil)
God is free to do as He pleases with the people of the universe that He himself created:
(Romans 9:10-24 NIV) Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. {11} Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad--in order that God's purpose in election might stand: {12} not by works but by him who calls--she was told, "The older will serve the younger." {13} Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated." {14} What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! {15} For he says to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion." {16} It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy. {17} For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." {18} Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. {19} One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?" {20} But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?'" {21} Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use? {22} What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath--prepared for destruction? {23} What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory-- {24} even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
and
(Isaiah 65:1 NIV) "I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, 'Here am I, here am I.'
No doubt. My point is He's not as ALL-GOOD, ALL-MERCIFUL & ALL-LOVING as many deem him to be.
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Please take just 15 seconds out of your day to return the favor, it'll help me a ton! Thank you!
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Correction; we did not evolve from monkeys and apes but rather we shared a common ancestors. We are but distant relatives.