Christians Are So Immature! Praising 'God' for "The Effort of Our Fellow People"?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 15, 2018 8:33am CST
I know most of them aren't really this way; I know they understand that 'Our Heavenly Father's gifts' are all spiritual, and that any WORLDLY blessings we receive are gifts FROM OUR BROTHERS-&-SISTERS IN CHRIST who 'pay it forward' the way Lord Jesus did.
But "Christians like the ones who support this video" give 'the quiet majority' a bad name! Thanking "God" for all the worldly things HUMANS 'give us' (and/or 'are paid to produce & deliver').
I can only watch HALF the video before I had to erupt into this, with "That's not 'God'! That's CAPITALISM! 
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For instance, one of the "miracles" (the video thanks 'God' for) is "running water." I respond 'Oh! If I "thank God," do people no-longer have to pay UTILITY BILLS or TAXES?' No! I'm thankful that we each agree to pay our small-small share to take care of the people who provide the various functions in our running water, and grateful TO THEM (both my fellow utility-payers & the city-employees we support).
I'm spiritually grateful that God gave us 'all the little miracles' (little 'science-rules' that no "human" really owns); but I'm REALLY grateful that multitudes of people decided to 'take' those miracles, 'use' those miracles, and--rather than "keep them hidden under a bushel-basket"--LET THEM SHINE!
That 'shining' is the Glory of Our Heavenly Father! 'Haughty' (hoity-toity) of us to think our thanks for it is something he "wants" (I think of First Corinthians 13: "If I speak with eloquence ... I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.")
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For instance, one of the "miracles" (the video thanks 'God' for) is "running water." I respond 'Oh! If I "thank God," do people no-longer have to pay UTILITY BILLS or TAXES?' No! I'm thankful that we each agree to pay our small-small share to take care of the people who provide the various functions in our running water, and grateful TO THEM (both my fellow utility-payers & the city-employees we support).
I'm spiritually grateful that God gave us 'all the little miracles' (little 'science-rules' that no "human" really owns); but I'm REALLY grateful that multitudes of people decided to 'take' those miracles, 'use' those miracles, and--rather than "keep them hidden under a bushel-basket"--LET THEM SHINE!
That 'shining' is the Glory of Our Heavenly Father! 'Haughty' (hoity-toity) of us to think our thanks for it is something he "wants" (I think of First Corinthians 13: "If I speak with eloquence ... I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.")
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
15 Oct 18
Yes - it is all a bit hard to credit, isn't it! What you have to remember with these people is that anything that works for our benefit could not have happened without God's involvement, but anything bad must be our fault, due entirely to our sinful deeds. You also have to remember that God can do anything, but chooses to let us get into all sorts of messes - presumably to point out the wages of sin!
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
15 Oct 18
It's 'today's definition of "hypocrite"' 
... going back to the 'answering a fellow actor on stage'-definition, you could say it came to today's meaning of 'saying "the answer that would be true if things were the way they should be" (which doesn't always match "the truth").'
Politicians use 'hypocritic language' all the time---e.g. Donald Trump's "promise" to 'Build that Wall' & 'Make Mexico Pay for it.' He doesn't know whether That Wall's getting built, how we'll get the material to build it, how we'll get Mexico to pay for it, or any of the stuff 'an employee' would need to know before he promised to build a wall; but 'Build That Wall' was "the words in the script."
Maybe "God can do anything" is important because these bodies' brains worship power. But the main 'reason' we worship God is because (the story goes) he WON'T give us the punishment we deserve! And if he WOULD give us that punishment ... tho he'd still be "all-powerful" or whatever, we wouldn't have any reason to worship him!
... going back to the 'answering a fellow actor on stage'-definition, you could say it came to today's meaning of 'saying "the answer that would be true if things were the way they should be" (which doesn't always match "the truth").'
Politicians use 'hypocritic language' all the time---e.g. Donald Trump's "promise" to 'Build that Wall' & 'Make Mexico Pay for it.' He doesn't know whether That Wall's getting built, how we'll get the material to build it, how we'll get Mexico to pay for it, or any of the stuff 'an employee' would need to know before he promised to build a wall; but 'Build That Wall' was "the words in the script."
Maybe "God can do anything" is important because these bodies' brains worship power. But the main 'reason' we worship God is because (the story goes) he WON'T give us the punishment we deserve! And if he WOULD give us that punishment ... tho he'd still be "all-powerful" or whatever, we wouldn't have any reason to worship him!The true sense of the word " Hypocrisy " is ... "Under ( Hypo- ) + to Sieve, Sift (Decide, Discriminate, Distinguish)" (Gradually Separat...
