Have you ever wondered if everything that ever happened to you is the will of God? If that was really so, then would God be really good? I will tell you the simple and complete truth that everything that happens is not God's will.
Let's start back at the beginning. What cause all this trouble in the first place? Adam and Eve sinned, right? But if you think about it long enough, you might think, couldn't God stopped them?
Let me tell you why. God has planned our lives since before the beginning of time. But how come so many bad things happen? If God is good, why do all these bad things happen? Let me tell you why.
Though God wanted us to have a good life and knew that we would choose sin, he didn't change this one thing.
OUR FREE WILL. God didn't want a religion where we would be his puppets, he wanted a relationship and in order to that he gave us free will even though he knew that we would choose sin.
He doesn't purposely put sickness on us! A father doesn't do that! Jesus said, "If you then, being evil know how to give good gifts to your children,how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask him." ( Matt. 7:11)
God wants us to love him because he loves us. I believe that not everything is God's will because we chose sin and what does sin do? SEPERATE US FROM GOD! Since Adam chose sin and we chose sin, therefore sometimes bad things happen to us. Sometimes God does allow things to happen, such as temptations, to make us stronger. But God is a loving God and is a father. A father does not purposely put a sickness on you. Though he will allow some trials to make us stronger and because of sin life wouldn't be easy, He loves us and wants us to have a good life and he will help us out with our trials.
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Emily-Smileygirl (not verified)
Fri, 12/07/2007 - 18:48
In reply to AMEN!! I just got finished by AmandaLC
Thank you!
Thank you!
god is a figment of ur
god is a figment of ur imagination. didn't u ever think for urself? cuz if u did, u might come to a conclusion like i've come to: god is a figment of someone's imagination! we humans either have free will and can do what we please or we have a controller named god who controls our lives and makes things happen to and for us. god is a figment or ur imagination emily and i hope u realize that before u die and find that death is the end. this life is all there is,. at least for me, because i'm human and humans live and then die. spirits only exist in sci-fi, okay?
by the way, my parents are missionaries and i know more of the bible than u've forgotten so don't try to talk shit.
SO true, Em.
That's so true, Emily! [it feels weird when I type your name cause I feel like i'm typing to myself! lol] :o)
I'm very pleased with this piece.....
~eMiLy~
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Please don't get mad at me for this =[
I am not religious, although I think religion is interesting =] But a father would not let us get sick, let alone let people die of sickness, no matter how many "sins" the commited! My grandmother died because she smoked, why would a father make these awful things? And why trials? I'm not asking for a perfect world, but I'm asking for a happier and safer world.
P.S. STOP GLOBAL WARMING-IT WILL HELP!!!
-Falling Leaves
"If life gives you lemons, throw them back!" -Joe Jonas (I think, or it might be another one of the AWESOME Jonas Brothers)
"You were not meant to fit into a shallow box built by someone else." -J. Raymond
Dear Falling Leaves
God didn't invent smoking. And most of the times it isn't even just sin. When Adam and Eve sinned, they brought the curse in the world and that meant A lot of bad things were brought in.
Trials are not for the purpose of making life worse but ways of making us stronger. God loves us with a very deep and everlasting and ineffable love and he wants to help us in these hard times on earth. And because of the curse of the world, he is sometimes bound and cannot do what he wants to do and people make choices that affect there lives.
One last thing, Christianity is not a religion.
ITS A RELATIONSHIP.
I will be praying for you.
falling leaves
ok, so u want a happier and safer world, but guess what? becuz adam and eve sinned, we won't have it. things are only gunna get worse. and just becuz someone dies from smoking doesn't mean God purposely let them. we make our own choices and we live with them. God does not give ppl a disease or illness to punish them for their sins, altho sometimes their sin might bring a disease upon them. He allows stuff to happen. we don't always understand it, may never understand it. but His thoughts, His ways are higher than ours.
and as for global warming, shut up! sorry...but seriously, global warming isn't that big of a deal right now. it'll take years before it's ever really a concern. maybe we ought to stop the sun from slowly, slowly shrinking.
~Paula
*a creative mind never ceases for long in thinking*
Yay!! :D
well would you rather have God control us without us letting Him?
didn't your grandma hear those ads on the T.V.? that say how smoking kills you or wutever?
didn't she have a warning?
didn't anyone ever tell her about God?
(if not thats sad!)
have you seen love comes softly?
remember this part? "The truth of God's love is not that he allows bad things to happen. It's His promise that He'll be here with us when they do."
atleast if you ask Him to be with U!
God could've saved your grandma, and people she knew probably prayed for her.
sometimes it just doesn't work out sadly.
but i can tell you God heard those prayers!
but do your parents always say yes?
God doesn't always say yes either.
but He really does love you!
(and btw eventually whether its soon or a hundred years away. things might get really crazy on Earth!) (but we followers have Heaven to look forward to! (God, perfectness, no sins, no tears!)
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But that doesn’t mean it can’t be written over”
-me
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The Truth will set you free.
Right, Velocity. But I don't
Right, Velocity. But I don't want to go any further or else we might get into a argument.
Falling leaves- What did I say about global warming? I didn't say anything! I think we should all pitch in and that we need to stop using so much carbon dioxide! It's so henious how people don't care! I agree! STOP IT!
Mon, 11/24/2008 - 03:02
In reply to Right, Velocity. But I don't by Emily-Smileygirl (not verified)
fallingleavessorry if... :(
Hey i'm sorry if my comment offended you falling leaves! :'(
maybe i shouldn't of said that =like that atleast.
please forgive me
( it didn't let me edit my comment)
-friend online-
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“Writing on me or anyone else with a sharpie may be permanent today,
But that doesn’t mean it can’t be written over”
-me
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The Truth will set you free.
Anonymous (not verified)
Mon, 07/29/2013 - 17:28
In reply to fallingleavessorry if... :( by Velocity
it is really God's fault that i am single today.
i really do believe that God is certainly to blame for me not finding a good woman to share my life with, especially after seeing so many very blessed men and women that have met one another and have a family just like i would have wanted as well.
AMEN!! I just got finished
AMEN!! I just got finished with a study at church about that.
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