Has God Forgotten Us

[Guest Double_Yolker]

A question. What happens to prototypes? They are replaced and redesigned. The first design is very rarely kept. It is improved and developed. This kind of brings me to my point. We have neither seen nor heard from any point of the holy trinity for approximately 2000 years. You may be saying

Edited November 29, 2004 by IslandRose

[larryt]

Hi DY,

Your human reasoning is faulty. First, we are not, nor can we conceive of being, God. My finite mind tell me that much. Second, what I want and what He wants are not necessarily the same thing. Yes many die each day, and I would change that if I could but I don't see the whole big picture yet. I see a little of it but not the whole thing. And God does check out His creation more often than you think. Third, God has not abandoned me. He does speak to me and not just "voices in my head." Something you cannot understand because you have not heard Him yet. By the way your post confirms scripture.

2Peter 3:3

[refugepsa91]

I agree larryt...

And yes Double Yoker...welcome to worthy...but please watch your language cussing in a post doesn't get your point across better. Thank you.

God doesn't abandon nobody...absolutely no one...usually its the person themselves whom abandon God. Have you?

Love and Blessings,

Angel

[Adstar]

Hello Double_Yolker and welcome to the boards

I will agree with Larryt's observation that there is too much human thinking in your post. God is not a limited being, He does not need to make 1 or 10 or 50 prototype worlds or universes to create what He needs. He has created this world, this existence to get what He wants and as for time it says in the word that to Him a day is as 1000 years, meaning that time as we experience it is not time as God experiences it. So i would not worry about how many thousands of years we have to wait to see Jesus again.

Revelation 6

9 When He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. 10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?" 11Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed.

Romans 9

22What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

What if God was like a farmer who planted a grove of walnut trees His objective was to obtain 1000 tones of walnuts Some years the trees will produce 2 tones in other years they will produce half a ton or a quarter of a ton. The Farmer is patient because He is eternal He can wait forever to get what he wants.

God has a number in mind and He is longsuffering to those who are against Him out of the love He has for those who will embrace Him. So what if it takes 2000 years or 20,000 years to fulfill that number, that number will be fulfilled.

All Praise The Ancient of Days

[WayneB]

A question.

[Leonard]

Jesus Christ Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

Actually the Scriptures present man as the culmination, epitome, and apex of God's creation; not a 'prototype.' That is exactly why God has gone to such great lengths to redeem us. He would do anything...even go to the cross...to make us His friends again!

God has abandoned us? Not hardly! When I was severely injured in a car wreck, He healed me instantaneously; is that 'abandonment'?

By His power, I have cast demons out of people, giving them deliverence from torment and bondage; is that 'abandonment'?

By His Grace, my prayers and laying on of my hands have healed many people of severe maladies, improving their well-being; is that 'abandonment'?

By His Prophets, He has sent us His Word in the Bible for our education, comfort, and edification; is that 'abandonment'?

Brother, all of us share the feelings you expressed in your post sometimes. But our dark moments are not the sum total of reality. Buck up, old boy! God is still with you.

With a blessing,

Leonard, a sinner.

[yomotalking]

Double Yolker,

You are attempting to make God look like a bad tempered old man, who is frustrated by the fact that things don't go His way, and so he has abandoned the job.

But!.....God is not human. He is Perfection.

As God created the Earth, He saw it was Good. As He created the Sun, the moon and the stars He saw it was Good. As He created the animals He saw it was Good, and if you read the book of Genesis, you will see why sin and imperfection came into the world and why it is there today.

We live in a world that is in complete turmoil and bad things do happen, but God does not abandon us!! I WAS abandoned, but God rescued me. I think He would rescue you as well if you were to ask Him. Get hold of a Bible, read it, and let the Truth set you free!

I don't believe that you really think God has made other worlds and forsaken them all. If you really think about it, if Jesus died for ALL Mankind FOREVER, then why would God make other worlds, send His Son to die for them all, and so put Jesus through the Crucifixion yet again???

You may feel abandoned yourself but God's love is there for You. Accept His love, it's FREEEEEEE!

[apothanein kerdos]

Seems like a sarcastic form of deism.

Let me ask you, do you honstly believe that the apperance of an increased evil means that God has left? Sometimes in order to paint a beautiful picture an artist has to use the darkest of colors. For man to appreciate His mercy and love, for us to see and fathom the beauty on His canvas of grace, we sometimes live a life that is blind to the light, a life in which joy seems a distant thing. It is because of the negative that we can appreciate the good.

[Slippery Slope]

God is perfect and infallible, he is omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. He created the universe and everything in it therefore, everything is as it was planned and/or should be. There is no need to fix or change anything as this would imply imperfection in creation.

Still waiting

-SS

[OneAccord]

God is perfect and infallible, he is omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent. He created the universe and everything in it therefore, everything is as it was planned and/or should be. There is no need to fix or change anything as this would imply imperfection in creation.

Still waiting

-SS

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Bingo, SS!