Ten things God won't ask:



1...God won't ask what kind of car you drove; He'll ask how many people you
drove who didn't have transportation.

2...God won't ask the square footage of your house, He'll ask how many people
you welcomed into your home.

3...God won't ask about the clothes you had in your closet, He'll ask how many
you helped to clothe.

4...God won't ask what your highest salary was, He'll ask if you compromised
your character to obtain it.

5...God won't ask what your job title was, He'll ask if you performed your job
to the best of your ability.

6...God won't ask how many friends you had, He'll ask how many people to whom
you were a friend.

7...God won't ask in what neighborhood you lived, He'll ask how you treated your
neighbors.

8...God won't ask about the color of your skin, He'll ask about the content of
your character.

9...God won't ask why it took you so long to seek Salvation, He'll lovingly take
you to your mansion in heaven, and not to the gates of Hell.

10...God won't ask how many people you forwarded this to, He'll ask if you were
ashamed to pass it on to your friends.

Read 1st line Carefully

Happy moments, praise God. Difficult moments, seek God. Quiet moments, worship
God. Painful moments, trust God. Every moment, thank God.

**the content of the above post may not reflect the opinions of the the poster. It was an email forwarded to me and I thought it would be interesting to hear what y'all thought about it.

Interesting........ I guess that is true. I think.......

i assume that since you spelled god with a captial g, you are refering to the all-knowing variety of the western monotheistic religions.

well, if so, if the god is all-knowing, he will ask nothing becuase he knows all. He also knew how you would turn out, so it is his doing that you came out the way you did. All he will do is look at you and say, "well that was fun".

or He could ask you anyway and laugh at you while you try to come up with some excuse for all of your short comings.
would be quite fun to watch, terrible to experience.

Why do people so absurdly assume that God wouldn't ask a question he already knew the answer to. The way we answer some thing is just as(often more) meaningful as the answer we give.

If God is all knowing then the universe is a stage and the script is already written, everything you think or do or plan is just a part of the equation that is slowly but shurly solving itself. Do you really want to beleive that all you have no choice in what your life will turn out to be? Or is this the subconcious comfort you hold onto because you are afraid to make your own decisions? Religion is a lie. The Catholic church was the most brutal and vicious empire when it held power. Thousands were killed in the name of "spreading the gospel" and "finding the lost sheep." When are you people going to realise that religion is a way to control people and stunt their spiritual growth. God, if there is a God must be PISSED at his followers who cower in fear and let the leaders of the world use his name to justify the deaths of innocent people(*Cough* Bush *Cough*). Bush. his name will go down in history as the most retarded president, barely able to string a sentence together, unable to string an intelligable sentence together...

"rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?"
-George Bush, A.K.A. The Great Satan.

It's nice to know that people twist things to suit themselves instead of looking at what is said as a whole.

The point of God asking those questions would just to see how you respond, how you've grown and matured as a human being. We can't say for a fact that he knows what we're going to say, isn't it possible he doesn't know anything about our future? You can't say anything related to religion is fact, that's why there is faith. It's called faith because it's not fact, but we believe it is. So maybe God is just curious, we all get that way sometimes.

Life has a different meaning if you believe theres a continuation beyond death .

By the way, anyone ever seen parents talking or asking questions to their babie? Whats the point if they know all they' get is uhh eehhh ohh?

except that so many believers who claim to know the essence of the being say that he is beyond time and beyond the universe, etc. So if he is beyond time, and he knows all, he knows the outcome. To be all-knowing, he must know everything we can imagine to exist and a lot we can not imagine to exist (since he has knowledge beyond us). If he does not know the outcome, then he is not all-knowing, thus we have a contradiction. If he is not all knowing, then we can trick him, thus he can be defeated at his own games, rendering any threats he holds over humanity harmless.

indeed, a key feature of the big g god being is his all-knowingness. Without it, us non-believers can rip him and all that is about him to shreds without working up a sweat!

Dude what you just said is very true!!!

He may know everything, just not what we'll turn out like or how we think, what we take as good or evil, or even more personal stuff. I don't doubt he knows everything else, I just don't think he knows everything about everyone. I could definitely be wrong, but I'm just posing questions.

Just because God knows what's going to happen doesn't mean that we have no choices as to how our lives are going to turn out. We have complete control over how we act and respond to stimulii - the fact God knows our response doesn't invalidate our choices....

As to the whole Catholic Church being the most brutal and viscious empire - I totally agree. But the Catholic Church is only an earthly organisation. Salvation is not something you find at church, or by talking to a priest. Salvation is found only within each individual that turns and submits to Christ as Lord and Saviour.

I liked it dear! It was very nice. Whether you beleive in God or not, it's nice to see others on here that will stand up for God. Thanks for putting that up!!

Thank you dear!! That's so true!!

in other words, he is NOT all-knowing. If he does not know what we think, we can stick it to him at any time. The non-believers are on the right path then. If he doesn't know, it is all smoke and mirrors. No wonder he is so heavy handed in the bible! got to keep the masses freightened, less they find out he is all talk and no substance!

if he is all-knowing, he knows all about us, all our thoughts, actions, intentions - past present and future.

if he is not all-knowing, then there is no need to even think about him since we could just tell him anything should the time come and he would be none-the-wiser! That would mean the best liars amungst us are the ones in the heaven, and the honest ones will be in the hell!

Formyself I do not think it matters here if it is God who ask the question or not.

Religion has made it that for people to become more psiritualy advance, that they had to do it trough fear of how God would perceive them.

Do we really need in order to be better person to please someone, anyone, or to appease someone else expectations?

These questions we should ask ourselves and answer ourslves honestly. If we truly wish to become better person, it will be evident to us the path we wish to take. And I would think that anyone who wishes to live in a better world, to live in peace and surrounded by love will always think twice about these words reguardless if their is a God that judges you in the end or not.


I do not think it matters if God ask us, if we can lie to him or not. What matters is what we can say to oursleves, how we view ourselves and our actions.


ThePortal

Since our brain is accustomed to a certain sequence of events, the world operates not as it is related above and we assume that time always flows forward. However, this is a decision reached in the brain and therefore is completely relative. In reality, we can never know how time flows or even whether it flows or not. This is an indication of the fact that time is not an absolute fact but just a sort of perception.

Since time consists of perception, it depends entirely on the perceiver and is therefore relative.

As Lincoln Barnett wrote: "Just as there is no such thing as color without an eye to discern it, so an instant or an hour or a day is nothing without an event to mark it."

This relativity of time clears up a very important matter. The relativity is so variable that a period of time appearing billions of years' duration to us, may last only a second in another dimension.
This is the very essence of the concept of destiny- a concept that is not well understood by most people, especially materialists, who deny it completely. Destiny is God's perfect knowledge of all events past or future. A majority of people question how God can already know events that have not yet been experienced and this leads them to fail in understanding the authenticity of destiny. However, "events not yet experienced" are not yet experienced only for us. God is not bound by time or space for He Himself has created them. For this reason, the past, the future, and the present are all the same to God; for Him, everything has already taken place and finished.

Just as we easily see a ruler's beginning, middle, and end, and all the units in between as a whole, God knows the time we are subjected to like a single moment right from its beginning to the end. People experience incidents only when their time comes and they witness the fate God has created for them.

Destiny is the eternal knowledge of God and for God, Who knows time like a single moment and Who prevails over the whole time and space, everything is determined and finished in a destiny.

I don't see how Bush got into this topic.

And yes, God is pretty mad at all the deaths that have occured b/c of others "spreading the word."

Satan sowed many seeds in the church, the deaths we're caused by greed, pride and envy.

This is the work of Satan, not God. Don't blame Satans' crimes on God, for this is what Satan wants you to do.

But what of all the deaths that God her/him/it caused?

I'm not sure If I know what you mean.

Could you be more specific?

Check the "Violence in the Bible" thread for more.

Hang on Zandore...

I know this is a newb question, but can anyone tell me how to respond below a quote without the white box surrounding my answer?

You need to make sure that you write your answer outside of the quote tags, for example like this:

Ok, I was trying to figure out how to post just after one quote and then again under another (without the white boxes) but I will just make it one big answer I guess.

1) As for the great Flood...

Satan's seed was in many a man. He had taken most of all humans, and formed a hybrid race (See Genesis 6:4)

If God had not destroyed the earth, Jesus would have been polluted with Satans seed, and prophecy wouldn't have been able to have been fulfilled (see Genesis 3:15)

2) As for Exodus 12:29...

This tragedy was necessary to convince the Pharaoh to release Israel from slavery. This event becomes an important part of the Bible's theme for redemption, which means to buy back or exchange one life for another. The first born from Israel were spared from dying because they offered lambs as their redemption.

3) As for Deut 7:1,2...

Canaanites were part of a hybrid race. They were some of the Nephilim. God wanted to destroy the Canaanites to show a warning to the Israelites not to compromise their relationship with him. If the Israelites had made a treaty with the Canaanites would show that they recognized them as Gods.

Okay, back to topic.
Since I believe that everything is part of God, he doesn't usually ask questions like those. Some he might ask are:

Is this going to be on the exam?
What will I get out of it?
Where's the latrine?
Will I get into college?
Was the conference at 2:50 or 5:20?
and of course
Where's the remote?

It was not Lucifers seed but the "Sons of God"



What are you using for reference?

I think the point was to make people realize what is important and what is not-by their standards.

That is, it is more important to help others and help yourself.

yes. We don't need god figures to help others or ourselves, it is the nature of being a social species. In fact, if the only reason you help others is out of fear of reprisal from a god creature, then what does that really say about you?

The "Sons of God" fell from heaven due to tempation. When they fell, they were not allowed back into heaven.

But they were not seeds of Lucifer.If any thing they were the seeds of God.

. Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,
2. that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
3. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
4. The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
5. Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6. The LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
7. The LORD said, "I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them."




he didnt kill them for being the "seed" of anyone... he killed them because they had committed evils and their hearts were set to continue committing evils..

Being tainted by evil?

what??? they were and i quote "Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."

So who was evil Man or Sons of God?

the evil was in the hearts of Man... that is why God made the flood that killed everyone.

Why this verses then?

that shows the evil that they committed.. and these men of renown are the ones that were killed by the flood... because of their hearts only having the need to do evil.

Because of the "Men of Renown" all on this planet (But Noah and family) had to die? Animals included? But who committed that evil....Man or Sons of God?

i think that is a kinda trick question, the ones that committed the evil was the children of the men and the sons of god... so i guess both... all know is that the scripture says that and that every intent of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually---being the Men of the world

Where I was leading with it was .....every thing seemed to be going good till the Sons of God stepped out to the hay stack with the daughters of man. So again I ask where does the blame lay?

i guess with both... reason why the Sons of God were cast out of heaven....

So he did make a mistake.

inspiring sorrow , pity, scorn, or ridicule

aparantly not... he was pissed off.

An un Godly emotion.

really, ungodly??? pretty sure Zeus was depicted to have felt anger and scorn, just as hera, aires(sp), and poseidon... so, scorn is a Godly emotion....

if it is ungodly, then why is it that God punishes us?

So you are stating that Zeus, Hera, Odin, etal, are on a par with the Hebrew/Christian deity?

Interesting.

NO... just stating that if these "gods" were depicted with such emotion, scorn must be a godly emotion.

Well, since they angels feel from heaven, and embraced temptaion. (Satan was testing them) It technically was Satan's seed.

He was trying to corrupt the prophecy that was soon to come.Which was stated in Genesis 3:15...

"And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring (or seed) and hers;
He (he being Jesus) will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."

Had God not destroyed the world, Jesus would be born unto a "Nephilim" (Genesis 6:4) (Satan's seed) and the prophecy wouldn't have been fulfilled.

So, he had to do this to destroy the evil in the world, and thereafter he kept a watchfull eye to prevent the Son of God being polluted with this "hybridization"

So it was not the evil in men but the evil in the "Sons of God"!