If the point of life is to endure suffering (work, relationships), does it show God supports private property?
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God does support private property.  We are supposed to endure suffering because as long as sin is in the world, people must expiate for that sin by suffering.  It's a good thing, though because the reward will all be worth it.  And God was fair enough to allow himself through His Son to share in the suffering of humanity as he would not have us suffer unless he also was willing to suffer.  Please be more specific with what you are asking about private property.
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The old paradigm of Christianity (hell = inflicted punishment) might allow this question, but I know that mine (hell = self-inflicted decision to abandon God) sees it as non-sensical.\n\nFrom what it seems to me, heaven and hell are not physical locations to which you are given access or damned to. \n\nHeaven is being in (and enjoying) the presence of God (just as you would enjoy being with your spouse, only moreso). \n\nHell, on the other hand, is not being in God's presence.\n\nRejection of God implies a lot about how someone deals with their relationships. When you experience deep intimate relationships, and you perceive that God offers the same thing (but even deeper), he becomes more desirable to you, and you want to be with him, and you love others more. \n\nWhen you fear others, or you're more interested in self-gratification or taking care of yourself, you tend to put distance in your relationships and treat other people and God more as objects. Eventually you have no real relationships with others; you are the only "person" in your little world of objects; and this is the painful, agonizing alienation of hell.\n\nHeaven and hell are, really, states of "being" and not physical locations.\n\nSo the question is sort of non-sensical to me, as much as is the old standby of, "Can God make a stone He couldn't lift?":\n\n* Hell (alienation from God and others) exists as long as we have been given the gift to choose God or reject him... and he is fair and just enough to honor our decision. \n\n* There are always negative ramifications for choosing to protect and/or gratify oneself ahead of others (including God). That's simply how people work -- even according to secular psychology.
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Did it ever occur  to you that people don't do everything to gain something for themselves but only out of love?\nPeople who are interested in helping you believe in God only want to share what they have found with you. \nYou are still free to reject it and they should respect your choice.
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it can be justified as in today's fast moving world you cant afford 2 sit and keep calling God when you dont want anything from him.(This is jus my personal view)
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ABSOLUTELY NOT! GOD DOES NOT FORCE HIMSELF UPON US! Whom ever is doing this needs to go back and read the bible again. We  have the right to choose how we live. Good or bad. In the end we alone are left with our own end results.
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I think that's a really good question. If I accept the premise that God cannot ask us to do anything that is not moral, then that implies there is a morality independent of Him. On the other hand, if I accept the position that I must do whatever God wants me to do, then I have no way to ascertain whether God is asking me to do right or wrong - I must simply do what He says.
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well I like this potion in the bible Jeremaiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome. and also Rom 8:31-\n31What can we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32Since God did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won't God, who gave us Christ, also give us everything else?\n    33Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? Will God? No! He is the one who has given us right standing with himself. 34Who then will condemn us? Will Christ Jesus? No, for he is the one who died for us and was raised to life for us and is sitting at the place of highest honor next to God, pleading for us.\n\n    35Can anything ever separate us from Christ's love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or are hungry or cold or in danger or threatened with death? 36(Even the Scriptures say, "For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep."[l]) 37No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.\n\n    38And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from his love. Death can't, and life can't. The angels can't, and the demons can't. Our fears for today, our worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can't keep God's love away. 39Whether we are high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.\n\nI love this passages it keeps me going knowing that the Lord has something good for me and He is always there for me also no matter what I am going thru be it as a result of my mistake or something I have to go thru, I know it that nothing can separet mew from The Love of God and I mean nothing
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You have an interesting view. I think I would agree with a lot of it. Ultimately anything about God comes down to relationships. Our relationship with God and how we treat those around us.
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But the base idea is still there that life has intrinsic value. Also, conside the passage in Hosea that speaks of abortion as a punishment for sin (Hosea 9:14) and the passage that shows God's disgust at the Ammorite practice of killing babies in the womb (Amos 1:13).\n\nGod makes it clear that life begins in the womb, that we are made in the image of God, and that human life is more valuable than animal life. Put all those together and you can see that God has a very negative view of abortion.
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Good did not create suffering but believe that he is there waiting to carry your loved one home. As long as they believe in HIM he will carry them into eternity. The Lord works in mysterious ways  but i believe and u should too
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Yes, because the only thing worth pursuing that has any eternal value is a relationship with Christ Jesus. The relationship can not be considered as "under the sun". Check out Eccelsiastes.
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The purpose of life is to serve God.
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One cannot serve God and Mammon, that is, harbor the love of making money or valuable possessions to dominate your heart.  Else you will be faithful to one and despise the other or love one and hate the other. The reason for this is that our faith and trust suppose to be on God not on the money that He provides us with. God suppose to be our security and happiness, not the pleasure of spending it on oneself. God is the one who guarantees our future, not the dollar bill. The accumulation of wealth will so dominate your mind that God's glory  will no longer be first.  Jesus said, Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things will be added unto you. In other words, get your priorities straight and put God first.
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Punishment?  Are you referring to the results of one's own actions?  If so, the punishment if of one's ownself, rather than from God.   However, if one should seek God's  guidance before making choices then there may not be a 'punishment' to be considered.  God is very real!
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actually, God does whatever he pleases, so I think you can. \n\nIn fact, the Bible is plagued by "disturbing" episodes regarding people who ask for things that arent very honest. So I dont see a problem. God is god, he will do what he wants. And if you are religious, you will believe God has a higher plan, and "bending" the rules for you is part of that.
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It seems to me that what is being stated here is that only God (represented here by "Christ"?) matters and all else - all worldly pleasures, are worthless as dung.  All the temporary things will pass away, and to cling to them is to cling to what will be destroyed.  Only cling to God and the things of God, who is eternal.
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The bible says that the wages of sin is death. Did the child sin? Of course not, this isn't my point. The bible also says that the rain falls on the just and the unjust. Inversely, as long as sin is in the earth, then the consequence of sin will fall upon the just and unjust as well. That's why Jesus came and died for us; so that through Him we may have life.\n\nI'm not just saying this. I, too, have suffered and lost greatly in life. I had to come to terms myself with regards to your question. In the end I found peace in knowing and accepting that God loves me, feels my pain, and cares deeply for me.