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Bible believers: doesn't this indicate your claimed god isn't too bright?
"I have wiped out many nations, devastating their fortress walls and towers. Their cities are now deserted; their streets are in silent ruin. There are no survivors to even tell what happened. I thought, 'Surely they will have reverence for me now! Surely they will listen to my warnings, so I won't need to strike again.' But no; however much I punish them, they continue their evil practices from dawn till dusk and dusk till dawn." Zephaniah 3:6-10 NLT
God says he utterly destroyed cities, leaving no survivors to even tell what happened.
But with no survivors around who knew what happened, he's then perplexed as to why survivors aren't obeying him. Doesn't that seem pretty ridiculous, expecting survivors who don't exist to obey you?
And if your claimed god is omniscient, why does it expect that if he wipes out cities people will obey him, and then is surprised when they don't (even though there aren't any survivors to do so)?
Not too bright this "god" of yours, huh?
@mobro:
"6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings."
"...there is no man, that there is none inhabitant."
That doesn't resolve the problem, it's the same problem just worded differently. Same issue: no inhabitants, but then god can't figure out why the inhabitants don't obey it.
@bnezsa: "When one nation experiences a tragedy does not the world look on? "
Now, sure. Then, no. You do know that when Zephaniah supposedly lived, there was no CNN, right?
6 Answers
- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
I think God is as bright as a Bronze aged, goat hearder from the desert.
- Anonymous8 years ago
When one nation experiences a tragedy does not the world look on? If it were caused by an identifiable source would people not feel a sense of fear of the same thing happening at the same hands? It would certainly be foolish not to, and that's the point. One would need full knowledge of Zephaniah's prophecy before commenting. For background info view article
- 8 years ago
Mark 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err
Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit
Have you heard of the katabole? Do you understand the reason for everyone being born and living once in the flesh? Do you know that none of those people are dead? No one who has died in the flesh, is dead in spirit, they are all alive with God until Judgment Day when some will die a second death-the death of the soul.
Katabole Bible studies:
http://www.kjvbible.org/katabole.html
http://www.biblestudygames.com/biblestudies/threew...
http://levendwater.org/companion/append146.html
Isaiah 45:15 Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour . 16 They shall be ashamed , and also confounded , all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. 17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. 18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited : I am the LORD; and there is none else. 19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
- ?Lv 58 years ago
God has/had more hope for us than we deserve. He liked to look on his people and pretend they weren't stupid. God didn't actually destroy the cities either. There is an idiom of allowance in reference to evil acts done by God. Basically since these people break the law, they fall out of God'a protection. When you aren't in God'a protection you are open for attack by the adversary, satan. Legally, the Jews could not mention satan's name in reference to his atrocities, because of the Ten Commandments you shall have no other God before me. To proclaim the works of satan would be a form of glorification, or praise to his magnificently evil works. The evils satan could perform were dependent on the sin performed.
The book of job was written to clarify that God doesn't cause these problems. Satan came to God, ask God for his limitations and the. Assaulted job within those limitations. Job was rewarded for never falsely accusing God for his afflictions. In reality every sentence that said God killed or smote, should say God allowed satan by the law to _______.
So God legally allowed satan to assualt these people and God had to sit back and watch, he warned them but they listened not.
It's like watching a murder movie and seeing the victim walk into a room with no lights. You think, "she can't be that stupid? What is she doing? Run b*tch, run! He gon' keel you!!!". He legally couldn't help so he became a spectator until they fell back in line with the law. God doesn't break his own laws either, or else he could not be a just God.
- 8 years ago
I'm not a Bible believing person, I am a Jesus believing person. There is a difference between Jesus Christ and the Bible. The bible is a book, and Jesus Christ the living God, he is alive he is not a book. For some reason people think Jesus is a book. When he's not. He's Real, he's alive. They sit there and hug their bibles believing a book is going to protect. No books don't protect. Jesus Christ protects. Get it? Seek to know God.
