{"id":543,"date":"2009-08-03T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.95\/~redletu4\/judging-god-part-1\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T23:12:00","slug":"judging-god-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert\/judging-god-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Judging God, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamskm.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/adam-god.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shamskm.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/adam-god.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div>It\u2019s amazing how many people want to second-guess God.\n<\/div>\n<div>You\u2019ve heard them. In fact, you\u2019ve probably mouthed some of these things yourself.\n<p><em><strong>\u201cIf I was God:<\/strong><\/em>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<ul>\n\n<li><em><strong>\u201cI could cure cancer.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cI would bring that little boy back to his family.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cI would stop all the senseless wars.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cI would stop religions from fighting.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cI would stop AIDS.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><em><strong>\u201cI would end poverty.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>All of these things are worthy things to ask God to intervene. After all, a child\u2019s death seems so meaningless. A widow without heat on a cold winter\u2019s day is beyond sad. A mother who doesn\u2019t get enough nutrition to even nurse her baby is inexcusable. We want to right all of these wrongs, and we think if we had supernatural abilities, we would do it.<\/p>\n<p>After all, God is good, right? He is love and light and everything good. He knows all. He sees all. He has all power. God has all of these abilities to right the wrong. Certainly, He could, so why doesn\u2019t He? <em>At least that\u2019s way we reason\u2026..<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Comment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/comment.g?blogID=956512876042479602&amp;postID=1751622640527982946&amp;isPopup=true\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span>And if this is being forwarded to you, you can get your own, no-cost, spam free email subscription to this blog. Just <\/span><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedburner.com\/fb\/a\/emailverifySubmit?feedId=1392543&amp;loc=en_US\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em><span>click here.<\/span><\/em><\/a><br><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Read the rest of the story is in Part 2, tomorrow<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em><span>Thanks to Sarcasticon for inspiration for this series.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div>Please, share with a friend if you feel moved.<br>\nRead all past issues at http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/davidrupert<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s amazing how many people want to second-guess God. You\u2019ve heard them. In fact, you\u2019ve probably mouthed some of these things yourself. \u201cIf I was God: \u201cI could cure cancer.\u201d \u201cI would bring that little boy back to his family.\u201d \u201cI would stop all the senseless wars.\u201d \u201cI would stop religions from fighting.\u201d \u201cI would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preconceptions-about-god"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Judging God, Part 1<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It\u2019s amazing how many people want to second-guess God. You\u2019ve heard them. 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