In this wicked and filthy world, how has god ever once shown his love?
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by killing everybody--you always hurt the ones you love, so killing them means he REALLY loved them
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Because it seems that Jesus love is conditional. And to be honest, I am not very happy with the management up there. After all, there is poverty, illness, cruelty unhappiness and war in the world. Why would we want a God like that? I respect your faith, but please don't try to sell it as something magnificent. Everyone has his her own path and it's up to them to discover it. The Fact that God would create  narrow path for a few to discover and deem worthy just makes him a discriminator. Why would I want a creator like that? Quality control anyone!?
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If God didnt ever show His goodness to us we would never know to seek Him. Sometimes what brings someone to salvation is Gods good work to someone who completely doesnt deserve it. In fact thats always what it is. None of us are righteous and all who have salvation were shown the goodness of Him. Think about the drug addict who gets a secound chance, or the attempted suicidal person who finds new hope... They didnt deserve a life but God can do miracles.\n\nOn the other hand how can God let bad things happen to good people? First of all none of us deserve any better than hell for it is His divine mercy and grace that rescues. And secoundly trials make us stronger and prepare us for His kingdom.
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because God is not apart of the world now.it is a sad but true fact.people are so corrupt in their own desires that they dont care about God. i wish it was different but this has to come to pass. soon Jesus will come back and they will all be sorry my friend. i promise.
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Interesting question. \n\nOdd, how in the Old Testament that God is portrayed as vengeful and angry, and in the new, he suddenly seems to change his mind...
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The short answer is that God is loving enough to allow us to suffer the effects (both good and bad) of our actions and the actions of others. If God did not allow us to experience the consequences of our actions (and others'), then free-will would be only an illusion, and God would be unjust in judging some worthy of hell, and others being admitted to heaven. OUR ACTIONS CAUSE EVIL, not God! Does God allow evil? Yes! Did God create evil? NO! God merely created free moral agents with the ability to choose to follow Him, and do no evil, or to rebel against Him, and do evil things.\nThat begs the question, why did God create free-will? Because without free-will, we would be nothing more than robots, or puppets on a string. God created man for the purpose of having relationship with, and to serve and protect the lesser creations of God (animals, the earth, anyone or anything less powerfull than ourselves).\nHaving said that, God does use evil (when it happens), to further His agenda for the earth, and particularly for those that love Him, and are called according to His purpose.\nGod created the POSSIBILITY of evil, He did not create evil, and along with the possibility of evil, had a plan to turn what was evil into something beautiful. THAT is why Jesus MUST BE God, Because God Himself stepped in and bore EVIL on His own self, in order to undo the power of evil, Jesus must also be man, because evil was introduced to the earth through a man, and a man must then break the power of evil.\nJesus was both 100% God and 100% man - fulfilling justice for both God and Man.
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He practically has! But God is still in overall control. If you read the book of Job (in the Bible), you will understand that the devil can only go so far. God is more powerful than the devil.
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god never wanted anyone to be 100% happy....even a person if fully content with everything will regret something in tht area....90% of this love things are onesided....why it is tht someone falls in love with someone he would never get,someone who doesnt give a damn....but still u can lay ur life on tht person.....this is just gods idea to screw up tht person.Even a good two sided relationship would end with a terrible pain or a jilt.....even god cant love otherwise there would be less innocent people specially children suffering.....this world is his cruel joke...definitely god exists.....love is his masterplan to screw everyone specially me.....coz love only brings n leaves tears more thn the pleasure people knw of....im sure god would never dare fall in love...
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God does love unconditionally, but love cannot cancel out Justice, they must both be infinite, or God could not claim to be ultimatley Good, which he does claim.  There was sin, and it must be payed for, or God's Justice would consume it regardless of his love for what was consumed. \n\n If you loved your child, but the child did a horrendous crime, would you turn him into the authorities, or would you hide him? Surely it is unjust for a mother to hide her murdering son from the  law.  If the mother is Just, she will turn her son into the police, even though she still loves the kid, because she's a good mom. \n\n So the problem is humanity sinned against an infinite being, and that requires an infinite sacrifice to pay for that sin, otherwise, the sinner must face the punishment.  The animal sacrifices from a Christian point of view, never did remove sins, but was foreshadowing of the atonement that would come, the perfect infinite sacrifice that was required.  \n\nIf he didn't offer a perfect sacrifice to his justice, his infinitely just nature would demand that we be punished.  He cannot do anything else, it would be contrary to his nature (unjust).\n\nGod sometimes asks us to do things that don't seem to make sense to teach us things(regarding animal sacrifice).  All God asks is that we turn from our sin and trust in his perfect sacrifice.\n\nYou ask good questions.  It's so boring seeing "how can a good God allow evil?" over and over again.
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Love is far more powerful than any curse. Try reading the Bible.\n\nBible.com
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Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow. Ahaha. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fu ck in' a off! He's a tight-as ! He's a SADIST! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? NEVER!
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I never thought of that before but I bet someone has, because sex seems to be the problem for every thing. It's a funny thing though that God told them to be fruitful and multiply, and everything was theirs  but the fruit of knowledge of good and evil. Once their eyes were opened they saw what God gave them as Evil.
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In the past, God did do that. He performed miracles for the Israelites such as the plagues, he got them through the Red Sea, he provided manna for them in the wilderness so that they could survive but even with all that - they still did not do the one thing he asked of them which was to obey him and no other.  So, do you really think that if he provided proof of his existence through a miracle or something that people would believe in him??? The Israelites didn't. But do you know that he does provide proof of his existence today? How you say? Well, look around you - the earth and it's many beautiful and wonderful creations - to start with, there is us as humans. Only a higher power could of created such an intrensic, complex being. There is animals, all of their different kinds, plants, flowers... all of this is a testament to God who created it! He also has provided the bible - which is like a letter from a Father to his children. This provides everything we need to know about how this earth was created, where we have been and where we are going. \nI don't think that by God just appearing or providing a miracle to prove he exists would really do much in making people believe in him - just remember the Israelites.
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There is evil in the world because Adam deferred to the devil by eating the fruit. But don't worry, God has the hairs of all our heads numbered. He sent His Son to endure every hard thing we have had to endure, physically and emotionally, on the cross. evil will not reign forever. And when it's all over, and you go to live with Him, He will wipe away all your tears.
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My friend, you are right.  There is no way we can look around and not see the magnificent work of God!\n\nHaving a relationship with God through Jesus Christ is like having the perfect relationship with the perfect father.\n\nGod is all powerful, magnificent, omnipotent.  He loves with a love we cannot understand in any way.  He is merciful and kind and good.  However, He is not to be toyed with.  He reminds me of that saying about true power being the authority to do something but not doing it.  God has the power to destroy everything He has created, He has the power to hold back the sun and the moon and the stars and the rain, but He doesnt because He loves us.  It always awes me when I think that there are so many (most) people who reject and mock Him and yet He sends the rain so they can eat, and the sun to warm us everyday and we just dont deserve it.\n\nHe is wonderful and very, very real.\n\nMay He open your eyes even more and set you completely free!
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Love is nothing but the channel to reach God... and I can prove it but it will take a bit of space... when we come in this world we are in love automatically with our mother, after that when we get a bit older then there are some other persons (particularly from opposite sex) who come in our love list and the relationship with them is more intense... after that we start loving our children and so on... this passion and emotion that people call love is implanted in to the human heart for one sole reason to identify his Lord... Who is the zenith of this feeling... Its basically God Who teaches us to love through all these stairs of "small loves" that we cross in our lives, and finally wants us to reach Him... because love demands perfection of lover and needless to say... perfection is the territory of God.\nLove truly is a weapon if it is in the right place... because its only the power of love that can oblige one's heart to follow his Beloved otherwise totalitarianism can bend heads but not hearts the complete dominance can only be reached through hearts and love is the weapon to do it... that's why God chose love as the path to reach Him... because He knew that its love and love alone which could be used as a weapon against evil and finally can make the bearer of it to prevail... \nso it really is the story of love as I see it...
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God has always exsisted. In the bible it says that. He created the world and everything in it! When you're a christian, you just have to have faith and trust! We know what's right, even if it's hard to explain or understand. There are some things in life that are just not meant to be understood!