Today, I just saw a post made on Facebook of a sign which said the following - "As long as you know that God is for you, it doesn't matter who is against you."
So, how do we know God is "for" us exactly? Is there a mailer that comes out every four years which tells us our status in God's eyes and if he is for or against us (or perhaps neutral)? Should we just automatically know? Does this take place when looking at the whole of a person or just individual components? Are we simply delusional and when times get tough, just say to ourselves, "Well, God is for us, so we've got that going for us, which is nice"?
I'm sure Hitler and others like him probably thought that God was "for" them, yet that doesn't make it so. I could say my invisible friend Bucktooth Brutus is for me and will be getting laid tonight by a virgin named Leticia the Mannequin, but again, that doesn't make it so.
The thing about it is I can't prove nor disprove the existence of God, let alone prove or disprove that he/she/it is for or against me. All I can do is try to be the best person I can be, learn from my mistakes to continually improve myself, and hope that if there is a judge and an afterlife, I'll be rewarded. If not, then so be it, but it's not going to do me a whole lot of good to clamor on and on that a higher power I can't prove exists is for me before I've reached my passing. That would be like me saying a potential employer was for me before I got hired or a woman was for us dating before we met. To the best of my knowledge, things don't typically work in such a manner.
So, how do we know God is "for" us exactly? Is there a mailer that comes out every four years which tells us our status in God's eyes and if he is for or against us (or perhaps neutral)? Should we just automatically know? Does this take place when looking at the whole of a person or just individual components? Are we simply delusional and when times get tough, just say to ourselves, "Well, God is for us, so we've got that going for us, which is nice"?
I'm sure Hitler and others like him probably thought that God was "for" them, yet that doesn't make it so. I could say my invisible friend Bucktooth Brutus is for me and will be getting laid tonight by a virgin named Leticia the Mannequin, but again, that doesn't make it so.
The thing about it is I can't prove nor disprove the existence of God, let alone prove or disprove that he/she/it is for or against me. All I can do is try to be the best person I can be, learn from my mistakes to continually improve myself, and hope that if there is a judge and an afterlife, I'll be rewarded. If not, then so be it, but it's not going to do me a whole lot of good to clamor on and on that a higher power I can't prove exists is for me before I've reached my passing. That would be like me saying a potential employer was for me before I got hired or a woman was for us dating before we met. To the best of my knowledge, things don't typically work in such a manner.
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