kate4christ03 wrote:Quote:Why is it that everytime someone finds themselves in conflict with God, it's the person's fault/problem/issue?
I could predict your answer, but I'd be interested in your take on this problem. Further questions to follow.
TKo, the fault with people's conflict/rejection of God lies solely on them. He is who he is, he doesn't fit into boxes we created solely on our feelings. He gives everyone the opportunity to know him and if one doesn't its their responsibility, their fault.
This is pretty close to what I predicted you would answer.
A quick observation before I continue. In your reply, you refer to God as "he" or "him," which in itself is a human created box to define god. I find this to be very ironic, and yet profoundly related to the question at hand.
The problem I have with your reply is that it is completely based on human resolutions on what god is and does, not logic.
In terms of the history of Christianity, the idea that God gives everyone a chance to know him, and thus everyone i at fault if they reject him is actually quite young. It is a man made thing.
It seems that even within the myths told in the bible there are some illogical conclusions about God and man in conflict. In short, the story of Lot getting basically tortured by god makes zero sense.
God makes all these events to test his (Lot's) faith that he (God) exists. The problem is that the tests given don't test Lot's faith in the existance of God, only of God's nature. If God wanted to test Lot's faith in God's existance, God would have been vacant and non-responcive. In short, he would have done nothing.
Lot would have had to deal with wondering if he was on his own/alone. I don't believe Jack Bauer is real, but if he was shooting me with a gun, I'd believe in him.
Ultimately, I see no reason why rejecting God or even acknowledgin God and disagreeing with him would automatically default to them being wrong without any logical reason. It seems that God would owe an explanation to them even if they were wrong.
All this for me relates back to the double standard issue with what the bible claims god does and what it claims God expects from us.
Question: Define "sin" for me; what is it in a biblical sense?
(It's not like I haven't had this described, but I would like your answer, so I can address you and not the Christian world at large.)
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