Bible Question:
I believe in God and I believe in heaven. But I've recently finished reading the bible for the 3rd time and I can't help feeling it just isn't true. God kills so many people and demands others to kill in his name. God's 10 commandments says murder is a sin and punishable by death, yet right after Mosses wrote that down he murders half of his people just for worshiping a golden cow (that they didn't know was a sin since Mosses hadn't come down with the commandments yet) And then there are so many contradictions. I just don't know. Can someone help me understand this? Do I NEED the bible to love God? Or can I just love God without it? |
Bible Answer: Adien; I want to deal with two areas. You have read the Bible three times correct? Secondly can you love God without loving Gods WORD. Both to me seem like you are missing a huge issue. God sets the rules and His condition's, we don't. We either accept His terms or we face Him with our choice to be again Him and retest Him as Creator and one who loves us or we don't. An ant has no control of if I will step on it or let it live. All the running or stinging me won't change my mind. We are similar to the ant are we not? God has given us a history of how people in the past treated each other, and how they disobeyed God. There are consequences for disobeying, that is in all of life be it our parents as a child or when we don't obey the laws of the road. God has instilled these laws from the beginning of creation. Adam and Eve disobeyed. Cane killed Able and so it goes. The main issue through all of man kind is SIN. God does all within His power to get man to live for their and our betterment. But we and they have free will, to do as we wish. Wean chose to follow God or to do things our way. Clearly If people lived by the Ten Commandments then there never would have been the killing and the dreadful punishment God brought on those who rejected His laws. Rather than see more babies and children turn out to be anti God people He instructed those tribes to kill those enemies. God does indeed bring calamities to happen upon people and Nations that reject Him and His ways and laws. The United States has rejected the Laws He has given us and now we too are going to see punishment in the form of natural disaster's or other serious things. We can not say killing babies is good and same sex marriage is good and in reality tell God we will do it our way. We can expect calamity every year from now on. But sin has been the issue and will always be. However God has a solution for our sin problem. In your reading the Bible three times have you made the connection between Jesus Christ and Sin? Jesus Christ has paid the price for your and my sins. But no one has to accept Jesus payment for their sins. A person who refuses to Follows Gods plan for their forgiveness of their sins faces God on their own. He will judge us on the Ten Commandments. No one has kept every single one except Jesus Christ. That is because He was a Perfect human God man. Jesus death on the cross was the final blood sacrifice for our sine. As proof that Jesus was God he rose from the Grave ad our Lord and savior. John 3:16 clearly states that God does Love us and will forgive us. But id someone feels God is unfair or they just don't like His Laws and the rules he has set then that's your choice. But who ever makes that personal choice will suffer the punishment for that choice, that is hell in torment for ever everlasting punishment. However if a person has accepted Jesus offer for forgiveness of sins and become a follower of jesus Christ that reward is heaven for ever, everlasting with the Holy Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I have no clue why anyone would reject Jesus Christ. I have no idea why you do not love the record of how man kind has so turned against a God who only wants the very best for us. I hope this gives you some better insight, and can more fully appreciate the WORD. Justme |
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