InChrist
Free4ever
God has not changed, He simply deals with humanity in different ways, for different purposes, during different periods in history. We are in a different dispensation. This is the church age, the age of grace.
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Why doesn't God kill unbelievers today?
- Thread starter Buddha Dharma
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Buddha Dharma
Dharma Practitioner
This isn't change?
Maybe it's because God doesn't require you to believe in him or die, just people do. Maybe they are worshiping "proxy gods" in the first place... maybe... god doesn't need worship anyway...
There is a difference between "god the creator" and the god of the Abrahamic religions, obviously.
InChrist
Free4ever
No, it's not, at least the kind you seem to be alluding to. Working in different ways through history does not indicate that God's moral standard or nature changes, these remain unchanged and eternal.
Buddha Dharma
Dharma Practitioner
Yes, which is why I specified it could be that the creator god of monotheism doesn't exist.
I think to say a creator doesn't exist is a reach, and obviously you're here and something put you there. Whether this is something we can perceive directly as humans or not, we can try...
Some thundering angry sky god archetype is obviously a product of fiction and human over-simplification, however.
Phantasman
Well-Known Member
The monotheism blinds. Even Jesus acknowledged the Jews for following a "murderer".
Thou salt not murder (except for me).
The Father murdered no man. No floods, no angel of death killing first born. This is the god of might (shown in physical actions). See the difference.
Jeremiah Ames
Well-Known Member
I don’t believe God changes.
And I think you take the stories too literal.
Sha'irullah
رسول الآلهة
The gods may have a very bad targeting system or have not built their Death Star yet. Or it cold just be that people love equating deaths in one's own favor to the god of their own favor
Citations needed. Make sure you list scripture separately and from which books you obtained them.
Free will
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Because modern laws prevent death by religion. Well, unless you're less fortunate to live in places that has laws to allow death by religion.
Frater Sisyphus
Contradiction, irrationality and disorder
Grandliseur
Well-Known Member
The answer exist for this. However, it is a bit involved. There are many parts to the answer. Among one of them is what the purpose of the Bible is since it clearly was not global conversion of all in all countries.
Ask yourself what the purpose of the ancient nation of Israel was, why was that nation God's people back then, why did God clearly indicate that that nation no longer was his chosen people!
The ancient nation of Israel's purpose was to demonstrate several matters, some of law, some of action, interaction. With God's interaction with this nation, God illustrated to all how he acts toward obedient people, disobedient people, how he protects them, how he punishes them - in regard to them obeying his law, or disobeying.
As we are told:
1 Corinthians 10:11 Now these things went on befalling them as examples, and they were written for a warning to us upon whom the ends of the systems of things have arrived.
Besides functioning as examples, all of the writings in the Bible we believe are inspired by God were given to Jews. Even in the NT which brought in a new covenant people of God consisting of Gentiles and Jews, only Jews were used to write these instructions for us.
It is hard to answer you since I do not know how well you know the Christian writings. But, the thing is that the promise of God is for a kingdom to be made of the entire earth, for all present day nations to be gathered under one rule, kingdom rule, a theocracy. The main ruler is going to be the glorified Christ. Below him a smaller but still large group of sub-king-priests shall be selected. This selection process has been going on since Jesus' death and resurrection.
Before the end of this world systems, nations, it was necessary to wait for the technological revolution. Without it, it would not become apparent that even with high technology at our finger tips, we still destroy the earth and wage destructive wars among ourselves, and therefore are not fit to rule ourselves. We are now at the very edge of time where God's rule shall be installed. Many shall mock this, but that is what is going to happen soon. Even now the nations are poised to begin the day of wrath.
18 The nations raged,
but your wrath came,
and the time for the dead to be judged,
and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
and those who fear your name,
both small and great,
and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
It is time for the nations to rage; it is time for the dead to be judged, for the wicked to be killed. Just look around yourself. Are the nations poised for war across the globe?!but your wrath came,
and the time for the dead to be judged,
and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints,
and those who fear your name,
both small and great,
and for destroying the destroyers of the earth.”
Frater Sisyphus
Contradiction, irrationality and disorder
God follows human laws? hmm, interesting
Read between the lines...
Frater Sisyphus
Contradiction, irrationality and disorder
Is it not what you said?
Because there are ongoing prophecies in many religious texts as one, to set a snare over the whole of mankind, to remove all of the bloodthirsty/ravenous/idolatrous beings in one go...
The second coming is a sign that the removal is about to take place (Isaiah 24:17-18).
Because there is a time for everything, and mankind has to nearly cause its own destruction first, before God resets reality according to all prophecy.
Because we're here to learn, the idea that some people are against the CPU that creates them at a quantum level is insane; thus the CPU understands that people are delusional down here, so repeatedly sends messengers to try, and enlighten us.
Reality exists, therefore the CPU still manifests it.
In my opinion.
Buddha Dharma
Dharma Practitioner
I don't think literalism anything to do with rather God changes or not.
sandy whitelinger
Veteran Member
All of this is assuming that God has stopped this. I hear of catastrophic death tolls all the time.