Robert,
"A personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them. Instead of inspiring the compassion that should characterize all advanced religion, "he" can encourage us to judge, condemn and marginalize."
To me if people do not recognize God or the Creator they become a God unto themselves and the lack of perfection will mean eventual total destruction of themselves and the world. I want to share with you an honest miracle that can be confirmed easily.
Last year my 2 sons and I were going to worship the Lord and a man in military attire stomped up to us and yelled Die Jews Die. He pointed the rifle at me and it would not fire, however when he pointed it up it would fire. As I got my younger son into the building I noticed my older son in front of the man crying and begging with his hands raised and urinating from the terror, again the man tried to shoot but was unable to. He put many bullits into the building and was arrested. The man himself wrote a letter stating that for many years he had planned to kill as many Jews a possible on that day but as he put his gun in the fire position GODS SPIRIT rushed over him and told him NO. The FBI has said this is a God thing for he had notes in his paints admiting a plan for mass murder and suicide. Anyway this is acnkowledged by Atheist and Agnostics to be a miracle. To me God is very alive and a very real presence and very quite like light that enters a room is silent but reveals all things to those who open their eyes.
There can be no assumption of what He likes or dislikes for He gave us His word to reveal His desires for mankind and each person. The problem is each persons perception of His truth is based on the condition of their heart and He pretty much says so and also that condition and perception is what will bring about Judgement. This judgement will be far easier than any human judgement let me tell you. I have experienced the God of the Universe (Yeshua) to be above all in His standards of justice, mercy and love.
A lesson given by Yeshua on judgement is as follows; Why do you take a speck out of your brothers eye when you have a plank in your own. This taught me we are to work in humility and judge only ourselves to gain spiritual wisdom from God. See He does not give gifts to people who deny His presence but only to His own and those who trust Him. He says he hands some over to their own rebellion to reap the fruit of that rebellion. See a Gentleman never pushes himself on anyone but quietly waits. A man can do good deeds on his own but as the pressure increases and his limited wisdom will in the end lead to destruction. The theory of Thermal Dynamics, everything in its current state will decay. Imperfection will cause this effect but God is perfect and the original creation was perfect look at natures ability to consume its own waste and the effeciency of the systems in nature compared to industry and automobiles etc... No, a far Superior design by a master Creator made this especially a Peacocks feathers each one magnificent and painted beautifully. To me it takes allot more faith to say this all just happened than it does to see clearly that there was a design and pattern. There is a book I would like to share with you about Darwins black box,this book was written by a scientist and not a creationist and he points out with the information available on DNA that evolution would be ridiculous to consider. I will post the exact title later.
When believers in God see people who deny Him as evil they are only expressing the understanding of all men to do evil by nature, it is there and where it comes from we will no in full when He chooses to explain that to us. I know my nature is impossible to control without Yeshua partly because of a lack of His wisdom.
Honestly I request that God fill you with His wisdom, peace and light of Yeshua, Nancy |
