Does god follow any rules?
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The "God" you talk about can do what "the leaders of the religions" want "HIM" (masculin as they are mostly Male) to do.\n\nThe ONE (CREATOR) or ALL CREATION, being a numeric, neutral and not gender-based concept, has to follow the LAW that is the laws of Nature or the Laws of the UNIVERSE.  ONE is scientific and Mathematical.  ONE is not a PERSONAL "God".\n\nThe sun does not shine more on the good than on the bad.  No matter how hard you pray, or meditate, the sun shines evenly (except for clouds and the weather) etc...on ALL...The ONE is fair. and just.  The ONE obeys ITS own LAWS.  The ONE does not KILL or command other to either KILL or not to KILL.  You can pray that the tornado misses your house if you want to and if that gives you hope, then fine, but the tornado is not affected by your prayer, neither is the ONE.  It is wiser to get out of the way of the Tornado that to stand there and pray.  But if it's too late to move, then Prayer is better than nothing....In fractals, the wings of a butterfly affect the weather and the "Positive" attitude affects the outcome of events to a certain degree.  But it is not the "hand of God" or the ONE.  ONE is fair and just and does not favour those who "pray" over those who "meditate" or who "sin".\n\nThe MYTHS of religion will have to change as people as yourself start asking questions such as the one you ask.\n\nWe are a GLOBAL society still believing in the myth of millenia old desert tribes.  The "gods" of these small and minor desert tribes favoured the adherents to these tribal religions and were jealous, lustful, power-hungry, warring and were really the figments of the imagination of the "priestly class" who responded to the desires of "war-lords" or the military leaders of these tribes.  Mohammed was a caravan owner who become a military leader.  The same with the Bible.  Many of the Biblical Characters are kings, generals and leaders of the People.\n\nThe story of Christ is a little different but he story of Christianity is just the same as other religions.  The little group of the little guy (the Jesus Movement) was taken over by the "organizers", (Paul) the elite (Mark, Luke, etc..) and finally the "emperors" and the kings of the people (the Popes).\n\nThose gods, being the creations of humans, have human attributes and follow any rules that the individual leader wants their  God to follow.\n\nThe CREATOR is ONE...ONE is ALL(The Creation).  ALL is ONE\n\nEverything in the UNIVERSE can be brought down to ONE and ONE, being  a mathematical concept  has LAWS that IT obeys.\n\nA little poem:\n\nB-4, B-3, B-2\nBefore be two, be ONE!!\n\nCyril Borg, the Cyborg
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First thing you have to understand is that God has never interfered in our lives. He has came to a lot of us a gave us a task, but he has never interfered. \n\nMoses could have said no, to Gods request. Yes, it was only a request. God has given us all requests, but only a few of us have actually sat down and opened our hearts to listen to what he has to say.\n\nNow as to the answer to your question, it speaks of "free will" a few times in the Bible.\n\nGod gave us free will, so he can not interefere in our affairs. This doesn't mean that he can't give us advice or ask us to do something for him though.
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i'm not that comfortble with some rules... such as polygamy etc. i believe faith is not measured in actions but how you believe in the creator
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god is omnicient. he needs not to change his mind
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Could God do all the things in the Bible, if he is God YES!\n\nI did not see them but I go with the fact that God could do it and it would not be inconsistant with a loving God so I say yes it is true.
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Nah. The single rule to be good to others isn't specific enough because one person might consider something to be good while another doesn't, such as abortion. Even if everyone had the same understanding of what is good and what isn't, it still makes more sense to assume god doesn't exist.
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If God is, God allowed for all types of people, on and beyond this Earth.\nEither it was Gods intention, or God is forever making huge mistakes.
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Actually, this question is easily answered by bible doctrine. NO, God cannot. There are many things God can't do. Who ever said God can do anything? God can't hate, at least not literally. God can only "hate" in the sense of an anthropopathic analogy, such as when He was said to "hate" Esau. God can't lie, break a promise, die, hurt, be sad, allow a saved person to enter Hell, allow an unsaved person to enter heaven, or fail to provide logistical grace support to a believer. God can't be unjust, wrong, weak,  stupid, not present, and He cannot change. He cannot fall in love( because He is love 24/7). \n\nBasically God cannot do anything that would violate His essence. His essence is Sovereignty, Righteousness, Justice, Eternal Life, Love, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnipresence, Immutability, And Truth. These 10 characteristics describe perfectly the 3 members of the Trinity, and no one else. I'm glad God is bound by who He is.\n\nYou don't need to defend yourself against Christian bashers. God is not worried about them or threatened by them, why should you be? Keep the Faith, Bro!
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According to most beliefs, God is a He. But i won't bash you for saying She.\n\nNo, i believe God gave us free will and a choice to say whatever we want. But i do believe in Karma -- if you curse God, then maybe next time you pray for God to come to your aid, He won't.
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Nope.  Faulty logic.  God being inside doesn't make God in control.
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God is spirit and don't forget he said to obey the government. People were to follow the laws-rather they liked it or not-unless it went against him. This does not fit into that category. Which I am sure you will pick  on a few scriptures and not the whole-which must harmonize.
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one cant, at least THIS one cant.  When something terrible happens and you question gods "wisdom" a religious person will most often come back with god has a plan we just don't know what it is.  Well my point is if there is a god and this god is omnipotent then this god allows all of this terrible stuff to happen.  Now if this god has a plan that lets these things happen FOR WHATEVER REASON then it is not something I would want in my life.  If a person stands idly by and lets pain and suffering befall his fellow man when it is in his/her ability to stop the suffering then they are as much at fault as whatever is causing the suffering.  If a "god" dose the same thing, well its just a perverse sort of thing to put your faith in.
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Yes, according to the world's standards, but not by God's standards. \n\nMar 10:18  And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
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I dont believe that there are things that where never ment to happen cause that would mean that God screwed up and God dont make mistakes... ppl make mistakes. God allows things to happen for a reason... thats to teach us and to help us to follow him. God had everything planned before we where even here... At least thats what i believe
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If God is all-knowing, then everything is exactly how he wants it to be. He then constructed everything to form a chain reaction of "freewill", the snowball effect of coincidences. He already knows the next time you will "sin" and that "sin" committed, was actually inspired by God to complete the bigger picture of creation.
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God doesn't follow his own teachings.  It is lust, and greed.  His first commandment shows that he would be envious if you worshiped anyone else.  He also killed babies in Egypt breaking his thou shall not kill commandment.  He also broke his commandment of not coveting your neighbors wife when he knocked up Mary.  If God went by his own rules, he'd be in hell!
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you are posing the same idea that Lucifer did to Eve. That God had some evil intent in His edict. Why or why not eat of the tree is not the issue. God could have just as well of said "Do not pee where the grass does not grow" The real issue is whether to obey God or not. The exercise of free will as according to Gods plan was initiated here so that after the full consequence of self interest is evident and the world is impacted as it has been God could then show that the exercise of the will by choosing to Love God through Christ would be possible, to the intent that the manifold wisdom of God might be known by the church to the principalities and powers in heavenly places.