Lol ok I’ll send you some links shortly.Okay, I googled it but could not find anything about "research scientists and their salvation studies."Need some help here! A name of the scientist, or the studies, or a link, or something.
Thanks!
Well yeah, I think thats point of all the stories. It would have taken a god therefore God must exist.
square peg round hole.
Makes sense to me! I can't find any holes in his argument.
I know I’m going back to the OP here, but I had a thought/question based on the premise.
The first sentence has a hole. What is good?
A God should know
In my mind anybody who has ever pondered what "good" means will have their own interpretation of that word based on internalizing their own and others' experiences and realizations during their engagements with their environment, thus creating a concept of "good" that will be as unique as their own fingerprint. That's my Readers Digest "condensed" answer to the question anyway.
Perhaps.
The Biblical God should know being omniscient and perfect by default. Gods of other religions might have different powers or even attitudes towards what is considered to be "good".Surprisingly not odd, but history has shown that Gods tend to think an awful lot like their followers, they love ,hate, and judge the same people along the lines that their followers do also.Perhaps.
Yes, it does seem to work out that way - allow me to don my apologist hat!Surprisingly not odd, but history has shown that Gods tend to think an awful lot like their followers, they love ,hate, and judge the same people along the lines that their followers do also.
It just seems to work out that way
No, I wouldn’t praise god because these two men lived to a ripe old age. Healthy people normally live a long time. I’m questioning why two young men with families are being dealt this fate, despite incessant prayer, if there’s a loving, omnipotent god that has the power to heal. Or why, if that god controls everything that happens, why they have cancer to begin with. Why do children, especially, have to deal with cancer? Why does god get all the credit when good things happen but bad things are never gods fault?
You’re essentially asking “why do bad things happen to people, especially God’s people?”
I guess the same reason you blame Him for bad things and self admittedly don’t accredit good to Him?
Why didn't GOD heal my wife from a brain tumor? She fought for 10 years, and eventually succumbed to it. Why was she not healed from this from the age of 26 to 36? She received her healing on the other side, just not on this side. The trials and tribulations she and I went through for 10 years, why didn't God stop that? Could he have stopped it all? In my belief, yes he could have. Why couldn't she and I not have kids? All so many questions one could ask God, all so many reasons one could get mad at God but we didn't. God did not put us there, but he was there with us through it all. Jus as he did Shadrack Meshack and Abednego. Since that time I grew closer to him, remarried and now have 3 beautiful stepkids, 2 grand kids and a 3rd on the way. I have been a help for others who have had similar issues that others could not not help. Why, because the others had no clue of what it was like. It made me not only a stronger person but to walk closer with God. I will always say God has a plan because he has always had one in my life.
Good comment & questions! But my answer goes back the roots of "religion". Humans evolved with very few answers as to why anything - favorable or unfavorable - happens. But humans did have plenty of questions! We learned how things happen, but the questions that always seemed unanswered was "why?" especially concerning ourselves and other humans. But the brain that asks "why" is the same brain that has an unlimited imagination, and we invented the answer to the question "why" in the form of invisible supernatural entities who pull the strings. We make up stories about the string pullers that are believable and relatable to ourselves and our fellow members of our tribe. Many people still use this model of dealing with life's most important question (and other questions too of course). Some people (like myself) believe that no supernatural entities are pulling the strings. There is no discernable "plan" for our lives, the planet, or the universe. There are 4,000+ religions on the planet - are there 4,000+ "plans" for the universe? By my reasoning that would be ridiculous. Could there be a "plan" that humans don't know about? There could be, but so far no evidence supports that. The bottom line is with the laws of science/nature being what they are "bad things" are going to happen to "good/innocent" people and vice-versa. All we can do is try to help & comfort people who are riding this rocky planet through space.
Absolutely fantastic post that could only come from the hope we find in Christ!
As a father and husband I can certainly feel for your pain and appreciate your triumph. I can also see why you attribute things that are unexpected and unexplained to a higher power.
