God's Job ?!?!?!

[trippymonkey]

Might seem a silly question to some BUT...

What exactly IS God's job? What does 'He' do all day ?

Wouldn't His power be enough to sustain this universe without Him needing to 'press any buttons' like someone watching over, say, a nuclear plant
 
Hasn't He got 'little godletts' around Him as suggested in The Bible & other faiths, like angels, doing odd jobs etc ??

This is a question for ALL of us here & not aimed at any one faith or idea.

Nick

[floo]

Might seem a silly question to some BUT...

What exactly IS God's job? What does 'He' do all day ?

Wouldn't His power be enough to sustain this universe without Him needing to 'press any buttons' like someone watching over, say, a nuclear plant
 
Hasn't He got 'little godletts' around Him as suggested in The Bible & other faiths, like angels, doing odd jobs etc ??

This is a question for ALL of us here & not aimed at any one faith or idea.

Nick

I should think the deity spends all day entertained by the antics of the humans it created for its amusement!

[ekim]

If it's the Hindu God then 'play' ....  'Lila' I think it is called.

[2Corrie]

I should imagine He reads the contents of this forum and weeps

[jeremyp]

I should imagine He reads the contents of this forum and weeps

Yes, some of the Christians seem to have very unchristian attitudes.

[2Corrie]

I should imagine He reads the contents of this forum and weeps

Yes, some of the Christians seem to have very unchristian attitudes.

but the angels in heaven rejoice at their repentance and they are not lost.

much more cause to weep over the lost and unrepentant

[Shaker]

but the angels in heaven rejoice at their repentance and they are not lost.

Pics or it didn't happen.

[Hope]

Pics or it didn't happen.

OK, shakes, can you provide any pictures of your conception or birth?  If not, obviously neither happened, and you're just a figment of our imagination. 

[Shaker]

OK, shakes, can you provide any pictures of your conception or birth? If not, obviously neither happened, and you're just a figment of our imagination. 

The fact that I exist here and now is a logically inevitable outcome of there having been a conception and a birth - just as it's a logical inevitability that I had ancestors in 1443 though I don't have pictures of them either. If they hadn't existed, neither would I.

[Hope]

If they hadn't existed, neither would I.

Is that strictly true under evolutionary theory? 

What I was pointing out, humorously I'd hoped, was that the lack of pics isn't proof that something didn't occur - and you've just confirmed that, thus contradicting your previous post.  Thanks.

[Shaker]

What I was pointing out, humorously I'd hoped

Nah, we've seen your attempts at humour before and they're no laughing matter.

[Owlswing]

My guess is that they sit all day with wads of cotton wool in their ears trying to ignore the selfish pleadings of millions of their adherents!

With the occasional scream of "Will you ALL please shut the fuck up for five minutes!"

[Rhiannon]

I should imagine He reads the contents of this forum and weeps

Yes, some of the Christians seem to have very unchristian attitudes.

but the angels in heaven rejoice at their repentance and they are not lost.

much more cause to weep over the lost and unrepentant

Unless of course it is the unloving Christians who turn non-believers away. Or is belief more important than love?

[ippy]

Might seem a silly question to some BUT...

What exactly IS God's job? What does 'He' do all day ?

Wouldn't His power be enough to sustain this universe without Him needing to 'press any buttons' like someone watching over, say, a nuclear plant
 
Hasn't He got 'little godletts' around Him as suggested in The Bible & other faiths, like angels, doing odd jobs etc ??

This is a question for ALL of us here & not aimed at any one faith or idea.

Nick

Could be keeping Father Christmas company, grooming Unicorns or placing fairies at the bottom of our gardens?

ippy

[trippymonkey]

I'm glad there's been a lighthearted set of responses on this topic but let's keep it, for now, to the idea that God DOES exist.

SOOO What the heck does He do with His time ?

[2Corrie]

I should imagine He reads the contents of this forum and weeps

Yes, some of the Christians seem to have very unchristian attitudes.

but the angels in heaven rejoice at their repentance and they are not lost.

much more cause to weep over the lost and unrepentant

Unless of course it is the unloving Christians who turn non-believers away. Or is belief more important than love?

Excuses, I think all the unbelievers on here made their minds up long before that. It's Christ people should be looking to not people posting on message boards.

[Shaker]

I'll stick with the people posting on message boards, swayed as I am by the fact that at least they exist.

[Rhiannon]

I should imagine He reads the contents of this forum and weeps

Yes, some of the Christians seem to have very unchristian attitudes.

but the angels in heaven rejoice at their repentance and they are not lost.

much more cause to weep over the lost and unrepentant

Unless of course it is the unloving Christians who turn non-believers away. Or is belief more important than love?

Excuses, I think all the unbelievers on here made their minds up long before that. It's Christ people should be looking to not people posting on message boards.

You make both him and his father sound harsh, arrogant and unloving. I wouldn't want to engage with Christianity as you present it.

[Leonard James]

My guess is that they sit all day with wads of cotton wool in their ears trying to ignore the selfish pleadings of millions of their adherents!

With the occasional sream of "Will you ALL please shut the fuck up for five minutes!"

 

[Leonard James]

God doesn't have a job.
Because "God " isn't human.

People want to make "God" responsible for things out of their control or for things they don't want to take responsibility for.

If God created the universe, how we exist in it, is our responsibility.

This is it, it's down to you.

Human beings have potential, it's up to us to use it.

If we don't something else will replace us.

Life will carry on, provided the planet can still support it.

If "God" created the universe, Rose, it is entirely his responsibility, the good and the bad ... love and hate.

Humans can only try to make the best of what they are lumbered with.

[Owlswing]

I should imagine He reads the contents of this forum and weeps

Yes, some of the Christians seem to have very unchristian attitudes.

but the angels in heaven rejoice at their repentance and they are not lost.

much more cause to weep over the lost and unrepentant

Unless of course it is the unloving Christians who turn non-believers away. Or is belief more important than love?

Excuses, I think all the unbelievers on here made their minds up long before that. It's Christ people should be looking to not people posting on message boards.

You make both him and his father sound harsh, arrogant and unloving. I wouldn't want to engage with Christianity as you present it.

Agreed!

[Owlswing]

God doesn't have a job.
Because "God " isn't human.

People want to make "God" responsible for things out of their control or for things they don't want to take responsibility for.

If God created the universe, how we exist in it, is our responsibility.

This is it, it's down to you.

Human beings have potential, it's up to us to use it.

If we don't something else will replace us.

Life will carry on, provided the planet can still support it.

If "God" created the universe, Rose, it is entirely his responsibility, the good and the bad ... love and hate.

Humans can only try to make the best of what they are lumbered with.

Again - Agreed!

[Leonard James]

If something created the universe as a working system, it isn't responsible for what we make of it.

Anymore than we are responsible for the bacteria that result from the consquenses of our actions.

Bacteria evolved long before we did.

I'm alive, what I make of it is up to me.

Precisely, and those of us with any sense do the same.

Unless someone uses God to avoid all the questions they don't like, or don't want to accept to be responsible for.

People who believe in "God" have to sort that one out for themselves. I don't have the problem.

[floo]

I should imagine He reads the contents of this forum and weeps

Yeh right!

[floo]

I should imagine He reads the contents of this forum and weeps

Yes, some of the Christians seem to have very unchristian attitudes.

but the angels in heaven rejoice at their repentance and they are not lost.

much more cause to weep over the lost and unrepentant

Unless of course it is the unloving Christians who turn non-believers away. Or is belief more important than love?

Excuses, I think all the unbelievers on here made their minds up long before that. It's Christ people should be looking to not people posting on message boards.

That guy was human and not perfect either!