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Old 11-21-2010, 04:11 PM
 
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I'm not much of a religious person, so maybe some of you here could help me out with this. I'm wondering, why would the Christian God allow people to worship other gods? Wouldn't He have wanted to set people straight from the get-go instead of allowing them to be misled into worshiping other gods?

I understand that Jesus was sent to deliver God's message to the people, but I guess I'm also wondering why He waited so long to send Jesus.
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Old 11-21-2010, 04:39 PM
 
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Probably because all Gods are One in the same, but the problem lies in the inability people have to relate, understand and accept things which are different, due to cultural interpretation and language barriers.

Perhaps?
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Old 11-21-2010, 05:31 PM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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I'm not much of a religious person, so maybe some of you here could help me out with this. I'm wondering, why would the Christian God allow people to worship other gods? Wouldn't He have wanted to set people straight from the get-go instead of allowing them to be misled into worshiping other gods?

I understand that Jesus was sent to deliver God's message to the people, but I guess I'm also wondering why He waited so long to send Jesus.
Let's pretend god exists. The answer to your question is to let people have free will to make the mistake of worshiping the wrong god so they can be sent to hell. Why? Because god loves them.

Also, these are logical questions directed towards the anti-logic crowd.
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Old 11-21-2010, 05:37 PM
 
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I'm not much of a religious person, so maybe some of you here could help me out with this. I'm wondering, why would the Christian God allow people to worship other gods? Wouldn't He have wanted to set people straight from the get-go instead of allowing them to be misled into worshiping other gods?

I understand that Jesus was sent to deliver God's message to the people, but I guess I'm also wondering why He waited so long to send Jesus.
The reason Jesus was sent in person was...Because HUMANS DO NOT LISTEN To correction, or instruction, or abide by laws already given!!!
They had all this pryor to JESUS....and they did not do, or act, or comply to those ideals.
Jesus came as a Man...showing he was Human, and frail as humans are, and yet he completed everything of the instructions, the law, and precepts...so we have no excuse these days...right?

But look at the world...and draw lines to what Jesus said and did in his time here...and what he kicked at, and pointed out, that was being done back then...and to this very day...which all the world is using (IDOLIC SYMBOLIZUM in MONEY and a broken second law of God, and supporting warfare and murderers)...Still!...Not much has changed since!...they just keep trying to find new ways to hide that, and make us believe it is ok with GOD....while prohibiting certain plants from being sown sinlessly.

Wonder why?

ALPHA = PLANT, FIRST, food baring, water consuming and filtation units, atomic entities.
Omega = POWER or force, last, OHms..electrical in nature, commander of the elementals....ATOMIC and SUBATOMIC and ANTI MATTER...through GRAVITY......They are all one.
ANd the one who tends and keeps them = the SON. or the SUN.

They are all one with God...the son sowed seeds...to make EDENS and feed the Birds good seed...GENESIS 9:3 are the givens!.

And they will not let you have that estate or claim to those Gifts to use in your life...God has given freely to all....
OH No ...you have to pay with that IDOL...which incurs SIN, by breaking a commandment of God, which Jesus was pointing at....and so "sin" begets "death" in that system...and that is why they let other religions and worship to be allowed....So no one gets to the door of GOD...DOING and FULFILLING what God asked we do....and it is not hard to do....Sow some seeds... not omitting or profaning anything God made Good and has Given....that would help.

Do it sinlessly...and you reverse something that was done, that created death.

see?...the great ordeal?...who are all of these? God asks...the reply: Don't you know?..they are the ones who washed their cloth clean with the blood of the lamb...and being sinless enough, to put back what was taken in disobediance by the first two.
who fell from Grace and were sent out of EDEN.
How many humans does it take to remake and or restore EDEN and then the mutliple of that?

Only one so far out of seven billion???..and they slaghtered him on a cross, and rounded up the others following him and fed em to the lions, imprisoned others, and even murdered some of them..... and prohibited the masses from following suit...wow.

Now they work for MONEY...and do not do for God any more.

And they claim they are intelligent....Polluting the planet for profits and gains in nothing important.

AMEN?

Some might say there is no God.
But after reading the BIBLE and thinking along the lines I put up here....there should be one, and the one who said :Tend and Keep the Garden in Genesis 2:15...should be God.
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Old 11-21-2010, 06:40 PM
 
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I'm not much of a religious person, so maybe some of you here could help me out with this. I'm wondering, why would the Christian God allow people to worship other gods? Wouldn't He have wanted to set people straight from the get-go instead of allowing them to be misled into worshiping other gods?
Well you obviously haven't read the Bible, in which he had the Israelites commit mass genocide against neighboring cities and nations because they did not worship him - murdering hundreds of thousands of men, women, children and even livestock.

If the Biblical god were real, he would not be worthy of worship. If he were a human he would be arrested and executed for crimes against humanity.
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Old 11-21-2010, 06:45 PM
 
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Well you obviously haven't read the Bible, in which he had the Israelites commit mass genocide against neighboring cities and nations because they did not worship him - murdering hundreds of thousands of men, women, children and even livestock.

If the Biblical god were real, he would not be worthy of worship. If he were a human he would be arrested and executed for crimes against humanity.
Exactly; If god exists, he's a jerk.
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Old 11-21-2010, 06:49 PM
 
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Well you obviously haven't read the Bible, in which he had the Israelites commit mass genocide against neighboring cities and nations because they did not worship him - murdering hundreds of thousands of men, women, children and even livestock.

If the Biblical god were real, he would not be worthy of worship. If he were a human he would be arrested and executed for crimes against humanity.
And those nations never did anything to the Jews, right?
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Old 11-21-2010, 07:00 PM
 
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Exactly; If god exists, he's a jerk.
No, if the Biblical god exists, he's a jerk..

Thankfully, we know that the Biblical god is nothing more than a man-made ripoff of a dozen earlier man-made gods.

There are far better GODS out there, fortunately.
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Old 11-21-2010, 07:03 PM
 
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And those nations never did anything to the Jews, right?
I see. So, you're saying your unchanging, loving source of objective morality, who preached "love thy enemies" and "turn the other cheek" would order mass genocide over some petty bronze age tribal feuding?

What divine wisdom and intellect your gawd doth possess.
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Old 11-21-2010, 07:07 PM
 
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..we know...

...There are...
Interesting words in a faith related forum.
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