The one question l've always wanted to ask god
By ivansama
@ivansama (758)
Bulgaria
September 29, 2010 12:57pm CST
ok the answer to this is very interesting to me. if any of you have it don't keep it to yourselves. ok?
lf this god character really does exist here's what l wanna ask him.
Why was your earthly messenger, Jesus, sent to primitive Palestinein a time before proper historical records could be kept…written about by human authors (some anonymous) decades afterward in what would become dead languages? (Wouldn’t a video camera have helped clear things up?)
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
29 Sep 10
Are you kidding? If he were sent to the 21st century, we'd have locked him up for a mental case or He would have been worshiped by cultists and not been able to do any good. Our society/culture is weird, even though our technology works pretty good! :) I think God knew what He was doing by sending Jesus to Israel when He did. Israel was God's chosen people so they were more open to the concept than any other, including modern society.
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@formidexo (1351)
• Canada
29 Sep 10
I saw a man walk on the moon on television and many people believe that it was all an Hollywood production. No matter how much proof you have if one doesn't want to believe it they won't. There's plenty of evidence to those who take the time to look for it.
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@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
30 Sep 10
Jesus was sent to the Israelite people not to the Palestinians. The Roman Emperor Hadrian placed the name Palestine on the country of Israel in 135 A.D. King David conquered the hill fortress of Jerusalem in the tenth century BC. His son Solomon enlarged and beautified it as well as built the Temple. The First Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC when they sacked the city. Construction of the Second Temple began in 538 BC, and it was dedicated 23 years later, in 515. The Second Temple suffered desecration by Antiochus Epiphanes in 167 BC but was rededicated under Judas Maccabaeus in 164 BC. Centuries later, the building was renovated by Herod the Great, and became known as Herod's Temple. King Herod (37-4 B.C.) built palaces and citadels, a theatre and an amphitheatre, viaducts (bridges) and public monuments. The city of Jerusalem had been around anywhere from seven to 11 centuries before Jesus came on the scene. The people had the written word since before Moses, so they could obviously read and write. Why do you call them primitive?
Jesus had to come when he came to fulfill the words of the profits. If you truly want to know why God sent Jesus when He did, read the books of the profits in the Old Testament. Do you honestly think Jesus, if he came today, would be seen as more than any other televangelist or the preacher of a mega church? He would just be one amount many.
I think I would ask God, why do those who say they don't believe in you work so hard to convince those of us who do believe that you don't exist; or why are they so bothered that we believe? Do they truly not believe or are they angry and hate you for some reason?
@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
1 Oct 10
I know those who believe try to convert atheist, but there are still atheist who try to convince believers that there is no God. Why do atheist, like Richard Dawkins or you, try to convince us that there no God? Why do you care if we believe? Why do you seem so bothered by us believing? The discussions you've started and the responses you've given all say you are bothered by God and Christianity. If you don't believe in God, why are you so bothered by Him and by believers?
@holdingfast (117)
• Philippines
30 Sep 10
I agree with you, Jehovah is the author of the Bible and thus, we must worship him in spirit and truth.
@jupitercrashing (635)
• Canada
30 Sep 10
God is also thanked and praised for all the things he does not do - now if that's not unfair, I don't know what is.
Cancer is not a new health challenge, humans were just too stupid (thanks largely due to religion, actually) to diagnose it before. You really think ancient Romans who were smelting with lead weren't getting cancer as a result? Give me break. As for what causes cancer, no, it is not just a matter of lifestyle choices and such an assumption is absurd. You try telling a parent of a child with leukemia that it could have been avoided and it's their fault their kid has cancer.
Trruk1's question is entirely legitimate considering that religion addresses god as an omnipotent being who created everything and knows everything.
@jupitercrashing (635)
• Canada
30 Sep 10
Absolutely anytime anyone thanks god for answering a prayer, giving them guidance, curing one person's illness (while allowing millions others to remain uncured), giving them a miracle, etc - things are attributed to god a daily basis for no other reason than the person who says so thinks that things can't work themselves out on their own.
@formidexo (1351)
• Canada
30 Sep 10
What causes cancer? Cancer is caused by our lifestyle or the lifestyle of our parents and it has nothing to do if whether God exists or not. Not all children or adults get cancer. Cancer is a relatively new health challenge.
If a child ran across the street and was hit by a car, who's fault would it be? God?
If a parent smoked and his child got cancer, should we not blame the parent?
I think we should try to be fair in our argument. God gets blamed for what we do and I don't think that is fair.
@spiderlizard22 (3444)
• United States
29 Sep 10
I would ask God where he came from and what he is. I would want to know how god's organs work. I would want to know how god is able to affect reality.
@Pose123 (21635)
• Canada
4 Oct 10
Hi ivansama, In my opinion, the God that most people continue to believe in does not exist. Such a God or Gods was created by man millions of years ago as a way to explain what was to them the unexplainable. It is difficult to read the Bible and believe in the kind of God that we find there. There are some exceptions of course as in the teachings of Jesus, that the kingdom of God is with us. Who could truthfully believe in a God,(or even want to believe in a God) who has a chosen people, who asks people to commit genocide, who agrees with slavery, who says that women are not equal to men and who answers the prayers of some and not of others? I could go on for hours but this is enough to show what I mean. My feelings are that we are spiritual beings and are all one with God, in other words we are God. When people are starving in the world, it is our responsibility to correct it, not call upon some supernatural being, who does not exist, to do it for us. All of these questions about suffering etc are then thrown back in our lap, where it should have been in the first place. We are not separate from God but one with God and each other. We are all one and cannot hurt another without hurting ourselves. Blessings.
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
30 Sep 10
yeah i know we question things why He had worked that way and why not the way we thing it should. but since He is God, i believe that He knows what he is doing and that His ways are always the best ways . though it may not be easy for us to understand why God operate that way. we just need faith to believe it.
@6precious102 (4043)
• United States
2 Oct 10
I think I'd ask Him why He put the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden.
@bird123 (10643)
• United States
30 Sep 10
Jesus is a child of God, however we are all children of God. Children of God can do some pretty remarkable things. We are all messengers.Do something wonderful today!! If Jesus had arrived today, the impact would not have been the same. Credit must also go to those who wrote the bible and spread the stories. Without those spreading the religion,no one would know Jesus today.
@ccrreeddoo (52)
• Philippines
30 Sep 10
the god to myself to love the god in the heart not to be a good human being to love our own human to have and all love that the god watching to, I did not know the god is true or false, but me i faith,love,time.
@renanfreitas (68)
• Brazil
29 Sep 10
at that time the internal system of monitoring was very poor. Not all corners had cameras.