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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 8 years ago

Christians: Do you ever wonder about the true nature of your God...?

or do you just take His word for it that He is all loving, and has only your best interest at heart? I use to be a Christian, but then I came to the conclusion that if God does exist, He is not good, but sinister, and I cannot serve a being like that.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    And why do you think that? The reason that many people decide that they do not want to worship the Lord is because he does not conform to your idea of what God should be. To many people God should be all love and no justice. This is not the case, he is both loving and just. If you don't want him to be like this then tough, he still is. What kind of a God would he be if he conformed to what you thought God should be simply because you thought it? He wouldn't be a good one. However God is perfect and we are imperfect. Therefore he has the right to judge us as he sees fit but we cannot do the same with him. He is infinitely more powerful and glorious than us. He gave his son to die on the cross so that we might live. This is love. He will punish anyone who does not receive forgiveness of their sins through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ as they have disobeyed his perfect law. This is righteous justice. I pray you will find the truth once again.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I fell the presence of the Holy Spirit very strongly. He makes his presence identified to me traditionally 24-7. And sure he motivates me to love and praise God always at the same time you are young get back in contact with God. Read the Bible and pray day-to-day and do what Jesus tells you in scripture. My Waffle is mistaken! He probably makes his presence recognized to each person in unique methods. Read what the Bible says about FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 5:22-23 (New international variation, &replica;2011) 22 but the fruit of the Spirit is love, pleasure, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. In opposition to such matters there is no law.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Let's think this through. If you're taking your concept of God from the Bible and calling him sinister, then by that very same God you are condemning yourself to hell because you have rejected his plan of salvation - evil or not.

    But if you aren't taking your concept of God from the Bible, but making it up based on observation, then why are you asking Christians about this?

  • I know the true nature of God

    Dues Est Cartes

    God is Love

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    So your acknowledging his existence but because your in a bad place at the moment your saying he's sinister and doesn't exist. Get to know him more and have faith that there's a long term plan for you

  • 8 years ago

    God is full of love he is unchanging, full of forgiveness we are the ones who change slowly losing moral accepting more and more sins as ok just like sodom and gemmorah, we now accept homosexuality as ok and normal and abortions as ok when god clearly states it as sin we humans are going down the drain just like that and god is warning us and trying to bring us back but we are ignoring him. God won't give up on his children we can't always explain why bad things happen to good people, god is all knowing and have to trust him and that is hard to do sometimes but god will reward us when we do

  • 8 years ago

    I cannot fully understand the nature of GOD. However, by looking at HIS creation, I can tell that HE loves us. It is mankind that causes the malice in this world. GOD offers every individual to work in our hearts, to become someone that can love and not hurt anyone.

    GOD bless

  • Vanmom
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Being loving, also means you have to be a little firm about things at certain times.

    If my children were about to jump of a deadly cliff, I wouldn't go, "oh honey, that is so cute".

  • Moi
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    no need to

    he describes himself well in the Holy Bible

    Jos 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

  • 8 years ago

    Attributes of Almighty God

    He that does not love has NOT come to KNOW God, because God is LOVE.

    And we ourselves have come to know and have BELIEVED the love that God

    has in our case.

    God is LOVE, and he that remains in love remains in UNION with God and God

    remains in union with him. 1 John 4: 8, 16

    And Jehovah went passing before his face and declaring: "Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and

    gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness and truth. Exodus 34: 6.

    Finally, brothers, continue to rejoice, to be readjusted, to be comforted, to think in agreement,

    to live peaceably, and the God of LOVE and of peace will be with you. 2 Corinthians 13: 11.

    Who is a God like you, one pardoning error and passing over transgression of the remnant of

    his inheritance. He will certainly not hold onto his anger forever, for he is delighting in

    LOVING-KINDNESS. Micah 7: 18.

    Almighty God abounds with WISDOM. ... Job 12: 13; Romans 11: 33; 1 Cor. 2: 7.

    God is JUST. ... Deuteronomy 32: 4; Psalm 37: 28.

    Almighy, ALL-POWERFUL, is Jehovah God. ... Job 37: 23; Revelation 7: 12; 4: 11.

    ARE YOU SERVING THE Only TRUE God, Jehovah? Or, are you UNWITTINGLY

    serving ANOTHER?

    There exists a way that is UPRIGHT before a MAN, BUT the WAYS of DEATH are

    the END of it afterward. Proverbs 16: 25.

    "Not EVERYONE saying to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will ENTER into the kingdom of the heavens, BUT

    the one DOING the will of my Father who is in the heavens WILL. Matthew 7: 21.

    "Go in through the NARROW gate; BECAUSE BROAD and SPACIOUS is the road leading off

    into DESTRUCTION, and MANY are the ones going in through it; whereas NARROW is the

    gate and CRAMPED the road leading off into LIFE, and FEW are the ones finding it."

    Matthew 7: 13, 14.

    I do take the heavens and the earth as WITNESSES against you today, that I have put LIFE

    and DEATH before you, the BLESSING and the MALEDICTION, and you MUST CHOOSE

    LIFE in order that you may KEEP ALIVE, you and your offspring. Deuteronomy 30: 19.

    KNOWING the ONLY TRUE God, is ESSENTIAL for LIFE.

    But we KNOW that the Son of God has come, and he has given us intellectual capacity that we

    may GAIN the KNOWLEDGE of the TRUE one. And we are in UNION with the true one, by

    means of his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and life everlasting. 1 John 5: 20.

    This MEANS everlasting LIFE, their taking in KNOWLEDGE of you, the only true God,

    AND of the one whom you SENT FORTH, Jesus Christ. John 17: 3.

    In answer he said: "You MUST LOVE Jehovah your God with your WHOLE heart, and

    with your WHOLE soul and with your WHOLE strength and with your WHOLE mind,' and

    'your neighbour as yourself.'" He said to him: "You answered correctly, 'keep on DOING this

    and you WILL get LIFE.'" Luke 10: 27, 28. Compare Deuteronomy 6: 4, 5, 14, 15.

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