re: God Has A Plan For Your Life

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according to who? The bible? the book written by man?

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According to God, Himself.

I'm not sure how familiar you are with Christian theology and what the Bible teaches, but the inspiration of the Bible is a very basic doctrine. Essentially, God used men to accurately relay what He wanted humanity to understand about our relationship to Him and to one another and how we are reconciled to Him through His son.

When you and others say "written by man", the obvious connotation is that it is just another work of man and it doesn't contain the infallible word and message of God.

I'd ask you this: why do you assume the Bible is just like any other work of man? If it's actually transmitted and preserved by God, it would mean that it's not just another work of man.

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so we are his toys? he didnt need us but he created us anyway, put us on a path through suffering and if we lose faith that he is real we suffer for eternity?

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Toys? No. God created us in His image and desired to have a relationship with us, even in our lowered state. Even though He is wholly other than we are and infinitely holy, He still chose to send His perfect son to die for us. That isn't the work of some tyrant who considers humans mere toys.

With your statement, you didn't mention the positive side. God created us in spite of His perfection and our inevitable imperfection, blessed us with life, joy, happiness, and daily provision for an allotted time while we actively rebelled against Him in unbelief, and still decided to send His very son to lower Himself to become a man like us, suffer and die for our sake, and give everlasting life to some who were His very enemies.

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my point exactly. why are we choosing to believe his words when he chooses us to die or suffer so nonchalantly.

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Why do you believe God does such "nonchalantly"? God has said that He doesn't delight in the destruction of the wicked but desires that they repent (Ezekiel 18:23).

We are to believe His words because He cannot lie. He is truth.

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we are his pawns according to the book. doesnt seem like he created us out of need therefore he doesnt need us to exist but he created us anyway. Why? to show what he can do? or to make us suffer with a promise of no suffering if we follow him only?

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God created us to have a relationship with us and to glorify Himself through our worship and mutual love for each other. God doesn't need us, yet He has condescended to love us and to show mercy on us and even to save us through His son.

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How do you justify that people several thousand years ago got it right? That what they wrote down is the absolute truth with no wiggle room?

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My presupposition is not that the Bible is merely a book written by the imaginations of men. My presupposition is that it's the very word of God, and therefore it is "right" because God knew what He was doing by revealing His word to us through men and He was capable of doing so accurately and with the intent to preserve it so we can know the truth.