God Help Us

Yes, luckily I don’t want to do anything that gets me in trouble. I’m really quite blessed.

You're not blessed--you're deluded.

Let's think about this statement logically:

In post #37, you post that "I do not believe God judges us."
Now you say "I don’t want to do anything that gets me in trouble."
Without a Judge, you cannot get "into trouble."
Also, you say "I’m really quite blessed." yet that state cannot exist without a Judge either.

If God is only watching us and not interfering (as you seem to believe from #37), then being cursed or blessed would not be possible as He would do neither.

Your whole outlook/viewpoint/belief system is very inconsistent and illogical. Since you cannot seem to make up your mind as to what it is that you do believe, you cannot actually believe anything. Because of that, you fall for the easiest belief that you can find--one that just so happens to allow you to do/think/say/believe anything you want without consequences. It's pretty much the definition of arrogance.

Thank you, it certainly feels like I’m blessed, so I’ll go with that.

The judges are on earth and when it comes to being blessed, I’m the judge of that.

I’ve told you a number of times, not just this thread, what I believe.

I believe that God is above that. I think He created us, gave us this inherent trait and is watching how we progress as a race. I do not believe God judges us.

If God is merely watching how we progress as a race, then He has no involvement in day-to-day activities. If we're just an experiment to see the outcome, then He doesn't care what goes on.

Or maybe He's just a spectator, rooting for one group over another? Since, as you say, we don't know the mind of God, how do we know whether things are going the way He wants or not? Maybe He's just standing back and watching. If things don't go His way, he'll just erase this universe and start again.

Everything happens as God wants it to, otherwise, things would be different.

How do you know things aren't different?

I didn’t say He has no involvement. His involvement is the individual breath of life we receive at our creation. Within that breath, is the plan He has for each of us.

As I’ve said, I do not know.

I don’t think we get to know that. Doesn’t really matter if things are or aren’t different, does it?

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