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Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: zander on June 21, 2006, 06:59:29 AM
What would it be? (apart from asking him the outcome of various sports events so i could bet on them) :)

Without thinking about it too much, mine would be - What caused YOU, how did you get here? (Ok thats 2)
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: worm on June 21, 2006, 07:29:15 AM
why mosquitos and cockroaches? :lol:
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Gill on June 21, 2006, 07:48:09 AM
Can i add spiders and daddy-long-legs?  :lol:

I think i would ask why He planned for the scriptures to be butchered.  I have my thoughts on why, but that's what i'd ask.
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: eutychus on June 21, 2006, 09:25:07 AM
Quote from: Gill
Can i add spiders and daddy-long-legs?  :lol:

I think i would ask why He planned for the scriptures to be butchered.  I have my thoughts on why, but that's what i'd ask.


Gill,

im not God :shock:  but here is one reason :wink:


Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. :wink:


peace
chuckt
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: gmik on June 21, 2006, 01:08:02 PM
Quote from: eutychus
Quote from: Gill
Can i add spiders and daddy-long-legs?  :lol:

I think i would ask why He planned for the scriptures to be butchered.  I have my thoughts on why, but that's what i'd ask.


Gill,

im not God :shock:  but here is one reason :wink:


Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. :wink:


peace
chuckt


I would ask why such a plan that needed one to be broken, snared, and taken.  Why the drama?  Pain?  Suffering??   Just make us all perfect ready to be "all in all" with You.  Who needs this life???  Why has this lasted thousands of years???

Well, that was more than one.
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: zander on June 21, 2006, 01:15:56 PM
I also wanted to ask that question.  But i can imagine his answer to be "because i chose to".
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Sorin on June 21, 2006, 02:32:18 PM
Quote from: zander
What would it be? (apart from asking him the outcome of various sports events so i could bet on them) :)

Without thinking about it too much, mine would be - What caused YOU, how did you get here? (Ok thats 2)



I'm debating between "What caused you, how did you get here?" and "What are the winning lottery numbers for Mega-Millions". :lol:

Though, I think I'd ask the latter.
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Falconn003 on June 21, 2006, 02:35:47 PM
I to would go for the lotto numbers, as"all will know rightousness.
:D


Rodger
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: zander on June 21, 2006, 02:40:38 PM
so would i (but i attached a condition on no gambling) [-X
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Sorin on June 21, 2006, 03:01:27 PM
Quote from: zander
so would i (but i attached a condition on no gambling) [-X



I read this post before Zander but didn't reply. Now in my haste I didn't read it again and didn't notice the 'no gambling part'. :oops:


So with not  "asking for things like lottery numbers and or the winning team of World Cup soccer (Romania \:D/  )  etc..." I like you would ask "What caused you, how did you get here?". And perhaps that'll help explain the reason why we are here as well. I would also like to know how he came up with so many different languages that are in this world, since supposedly he
did all at the Tower of Babel. He really did a number on the Chinese/Japanese language/Alphabet, eh? ;) :lol:


I don't know, I have so many unanswered questions it's hard to narrow it down to just one. I would also like to know if " They will be like the angels
and won't be given into marriage " really means "no more sex". I mean didn't Jesus speak in parables unto the multitudes, and without a parable spake He not unto them right? So then, that time He got confused and spoke plainly to them? Aren't His words Spirit? So then why should we take that literally? Thoughts?

Oops! But I don't want to hijack Zander's thread. So I guess if people wish to discuss that they can just pm me or start a thread, or tell me too.
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Falconn003 on June 21, 2006, 04:22:53 PM
Ok no gambling.....shucks.....


I would ask God about " 1" and all it's spiritual concepts.

Rodger
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: SandyFla on June 21, 2006, 05:10:46 PM
Quote from: worm
why mosquitos and cockroaches? :lol:


:lol: Especially cockroaches. Too bad Noah didn't smash those 2 when he had the chance!  :lol:
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: SandyFla on June 21, 2006, 05:15:40 PM
But seriously, folks ...

I would ask God why He didn't let me die when I was a baby.
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: carol v on June 21, 2006, 10:11:23 PM
Why is evil so evil?

Couldn't we have learned how bad are without the beheadings in Iraq, the medical experiments without anesthesia on the Jews, child torturers...well y'all know.
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: longhorn on June 21, 2006, 10:28:35 PM
What's taking so dang long?


Longhorn
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: davey C. on June 21, 2006, 11:07:26 PM
In all reality I can ask The Father all the questions I have and I do ask Him.So the real question which answer are you not getting that you want to know.Pray withot ceasing .love davey c
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Sorin on June 21, 2006, 11:11:23 PM
Quote from: davey C.
In all reality I can ask The Father all the questions I have and I do ask Him.So the real question which answer are you not getting that you want to know.Pray withot ceasing .love davey c



The winning lotto numbers. ;)
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Timothy on June 22, 2006, 12:25:23 AM
Who's the liar?
Title: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Gill on June 22, 2006, 07:59:33 AM
Quote from: eutychus
Quote from: Gill
Can i add spiders and daddy-long-legs?  :lol:

I think i would ask why He planned for the scriptures to be butchered.  I have my thoughts on why, but that's what i'd ask.


Gill,

im not God :shock:  but here is one reason :wink:


Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. :wink:


peace
chuckt


Hi Chuck,
i find myself asking how anyone could study without the use of lexicons, a gazillion translations and the internet.  What about the writings that aren't part of cannonized scripture?  What about the writings that are?  Just goes to show that the only real way to know the Lord and be known by Him is to do as He says  :lol:.   But yes, He certainly has made the written word to be a stumbling block as much as anything else.
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: insanezenmistress on September 01, 2007, 12:49:01 PM
so many excellent questions......let me quothe form the gospel according to the Band Rush.....


            "Well, you can stake that claim
Good work is the key to good fortune
Winners take that praise
Losers seldom take that blame
If they don't take that game
And sometimes the winner takes nothing
We draw our own designs
But fortune has to make that frame

We go out in the world and take our chances
Fate is just the weight of circumstances
That's the way that lady luck dances
Roll the bones

Why are we here?
Because we're here
Roll the bones
Why does it happen?
Because it happens
Roll the bones

Faith is cold as ice
Why are little ones born only to suffer
For the want of immunity
Or a bowl of rice?
Well, who would hold a price
On the heads of the innocent children
If there's some immortal power
To control the dice?

We come into the world and take our chances
Fate is just the weight of circumstances
That's the way that lady luck dances
Roll the bones

Jack -- relax.
Get busy with the facts.
No zodiacs or almanacs,
No maniacs in polyester slacks.
Just the facts.
Gonna kick some gluteus max.
It's a parallax -- you dig?
You move around
The small gets big. It's a rig
It's action -- reaction
Random interaction.
So who's afraid
Of a little abstraction?
Can't get no satisfaction
From the facts?
You better run, homeboy
A fact's a fact
From Nome to Rome, boy.

What's the deal? Spin the wheel.
If the dice are hot -- take a shot.
Play your cards. Show us what you got
What you're holding.
If the cards are cold,
Don't go folding.
Lady Luck is golden;
She favours the bold. That's cold
Stop throwing stones
The night has a thousand saxophones. So get out there and rock,
And roll the bones.
Get busy!

Roll the bones

Why are we here?
Because we're here
Roll the bones
Why does it happen?
Because it happens
Roll the bones


........god is the recipetical of all Knowledge, we are the receptrical of infinite questions, he must fill us to the complete so that we may comune and be His creation after His image... knowing and well seasoned in the knowledge of good and evil, like he is. that takes drama, that takes pain, that takes defeating all our sin under the power of his Blood....and by His very Name, Jesus Christ our redeemer.


 there is a lesson to be learned in every aspect of your life, that will compele you....( us all in his perfect time) into the Image of His righteousness. Whats the point of it all?!.............

 that we may know the Lord and he may know us and fill up all in all.

 that The Lord can have what he's always wanted..A people that walk with him in all their ways, of undivided mind, which is carnality......self-reflection reather than god reflection.........in my oppinon.

IZM
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Deborah-Leigh on September 01, 2007, 03:46:18 PM


Just my thoughts:

It is better to know God than to question Him. He can answer any question but His answers can still go right over your head, or be heard and not understood, or seen and not percieved. Like the disciples who asked Jesus to explain the parable of the seed being sown first onto the way side then on the hard ground etc and He answered with another parable!

so for me it is pointless to ask questions. To desire to know God...that is the way to go...then you will understand, percieve, comprehend and all those desireable qualities of His Spirit will bring Peace. His Son, after all is called the Prince of Peace!

Understanding is from His Spirit not from our questions ;D

The fewer the questions, the greater the peace. We all begin with many questions and they do get answered along the way through Gods Grace and Mercy! BT has done this for me in a big way! ;D

Peace be to you

Arcturus :)
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: musicman on September 01, 2007, 07:46:29 PM
I would say, have you always been God?  Did you win some God election to become God?  Did you ever go to college to learn how to become God?  Did you live in a family line of God's and it was just your turn to be God?  In other words, who died and made you God?

That is funny, huh God?
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: DuluthGA on September 01, 2007, 08:41:27 PM
Hands down, the #1 question for Jesus is …. < drum roll please >

How did the Father process You before Your physical life to become His perfect Son since it is not recorded in Scripture and as Ray says, “We don’t know what Jesus went through, how did He become Number One, how did He become the Son of God?  How did He become glorified, what did He go through?” 

Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: musicman on September 01, 2007, 08:58:00 PM
Hands down, the #1 question for Jesus is …. < drum roll please >

How did the Father process You before Your physical life to become His perfect Son since it is not recorded in Scripture and as Ray says, “We don’t know what Jesus went through, how did He become Number One, how did He become the Son of God?  How did He become glorified, what did He go through?” 



Better yet, I would ask that question instead.
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: javajoe on September 01, 2007, 09:05:25 PM
My question for the moment is:

After all the things I've learned from pastors, theologians, professors and scholars over the years, why did it take a roofer to get me excited about God and come to terms with my faith? ???

That seems to be God's way!
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: hebrewroots98 on September 29, 2007, 06:05:30 PM
I guess I would ask HIM why HE went the long way around in getting humans to worship HIM; why did HE not make us humans with the total indwelling and the total understanding and total ability to worship HIM fullyin the beginning (when we were born) instead of making us work and struggle to finally love HIM with all of our hearts.???  :-\

Also, how did the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION actually happen, how did HE physically impregnate Mary since HE is spiritual and not physical??? :o

My little boy just said that he would ask who made GOD??? ;D
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: YellowRose on September 29, 2007, 07:00:24 PM
Well, I just have to add my question because I have ALWAYS said that the only question I have for God is, "Why cockroaches?"  I mean, I accept that His Plan of Salvation is what it is and that it has taken a long time (in our eyes) and may continue to take a long time and that it involves a lot of suffering and struggling and lost innocence, etc., etc.  I really do accept all of that and I don't spend time any more questioning it.  But cockroaches???  Every time I see one of those horrid creatures I am at a loss to comprehend what He was thinking when He CHOSE to create them.  (Here in Texas we have flying tree roaches that bring utter terror to my mind.)  The only inkling of a POSSIBLE reason is the depth of joy I will experience the day I realize I will NEVER have to EVER see one of them EVER again.  Of course, that is an assumption but nevertheless it is one into which I put a lof of HOPE.

Good day, all!

In His Service,

Cathy
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Deborah-Leigh on September 29, 2007, 08:12:23 PM
This scripture has occurred to me.

1 Cor 13 : 9. For our knowledge is fragmentary, incomplete and imperfect, and our prophecy our teaching is fragmentary incomplete and imperfect. 10. But when the complete and perfect comes, the incomplete and imperfect will VANISH away. (Caps and italics are used to show emphasis.)

So then when Christ comes again who is not fragmentary incomplete or imperfect...then our questions will vanish! 

Peace to you

Arcturus :)
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Beloved on September 29, 2007, 10:30:16 PM
If I was the last peson and in the very back row and had a view of everything.

I honestly do not think I could ask anything....of God

(Job 42:1 REV)  Then Job responded to Yahweh, and said:-

(Job 42:4 REV)  Hear thou, I pray thee, and, I, will speak, I will ask thee, and inform thou me.

(Job 42:5 REV)  By the hearing of the ear, had I heard thee, but, now, mine own eye, hath seen thee.

(Job 42:6 REV)  For this cause, I tremble and repent, on dust and ash
es.

Beloved  

All my questions would be so carnal I could not imagine their purpose in His Presence
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: gmik on September 30, 2007, 12:09:58 AM
My question for the moment is:

After all the things I've learned from pastors, theologians, professors and scholars over the years, why did it take a roofer to get me excited about God and come to terms with my faith? ???

That seems to be God's way!

 :D Good One Joe!!

Beloved, that is so true.

Arc, I like that.

YellowRose, can't those critters even withstand the atom bomb???  But I had those same thoughts about mosquitos!!
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: DuluthGA on September 30, 2007, 01:39:16 AM
[As an aside]  Thanks Arcturus, I needed to hear this tonight:

Quote
So then when Christ comes again who is not fragmentary incomplete or imperfect...then our questions will vanish!

I get and got into a series of questionings in another thread last night... and this happens from time to time... I sometimes miss the UNITY of our God and His ULTIMATE knowledge and plan... and I ramble and get a little cloudy...

Thanks for your words that bring me home.

 :)
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Deborah-Leigh on September 30, 2007, 06:18:29 AM
Peace to you Janice.

In one way or another that happens to all of us who are in His purification process :)
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Beloved on September 30, 2007, 10:43:32 AM
You guys are such wimps  ;D

Every creature serves the purpose of God even the poor lowly cockroach

If death was brought into this world then He needed lots of different things to eat up the dead carcasses.

(I tried to do a word seach and couldn't find any in esword... :D )


http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/5588/roaches.html

http://www.blattodea-culture-group.org/node/1366

http://why.aminus3.com/image/2007-07-10.html

Beloved
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: rk12201960 on September 30, 2007, 11:27:35 AM
<------ wimp.  ;D
I would ask, what are you teaching me today.
That's a question answered daily.

Love to all.
Randy
 ;D 8) ;D
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Beloved on September 30, 2007, 12:01:47 PM
Randy

You are right God has a lot to teach us all and our little brains "cannot bear it all"

I was making sport with some members...

God is always teaching us this lesson...>
We are to love our enemy....even though there may be a lot of spiritual cockroaches out there.
(this comment is in reference to all our enemies in general and please note..... as someone has kindly pointed out to me ....not to anyone posting here     ;D ;D ;D )

Hey guys remember there a lot more scarier things out there than physical cockroaches......>  prions, ebola virus etc.  They too serve His purpose.

Beloved

Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: indianabob on September 30, 2007, 06:44:48 PM
If I could ask just one question it might be.

Since you are eternal and have no beginning, when did you decide to make humans your method of having many sons with whom to share your creation?  What were you doing before the creation of the material universe and the development of the plan to create our beautiful Garden of Eden.  Even if God lives outside of time, it would seem apparent that things do happen in sequence, one after the other as needed to fulfill the plan.  So, was there an eternity before the material creation?  Just curious.

Also, the question about physical pleasures such as sex.

Actually, did God have to have two sexes in order to populate the world with billions initially?

I suppose God could have just made 100 Billion people and let them all populate the earth for one thousand years and live out their lives relating to one another WITHOUT sharing in the creation of new life.  But He didn't and that is a good example of God's character.  He desires to share ALL that He has with ALL His children so He made sons and daughters.  Think about it, God made humans sexual so that they could share in the creation of billions of new lives.

I'm Not second guessing God, but the point is sexual expression has a definite and TEMPORARY purpose.

Sexual expression is fun and desirable because God made it that way for a purpose.  So that we would populate the earth and subdue it and practice responsible stewardship.  How many fellows would volunteer to impregnate a woman and care for the offspring for 20 years, IF the pleasure was not exquisite and overwhelming.  Ladies, can you imagine a male taking that responsibility if he was in his right mind?  (smile) Possible but rare.
 
Sexual expression isn't necessary for God's children to express love and have true joy after the resurrection to true life. There will be much opportunity to practice 'agape' love in the age to come and it will be a spiritual expression rather than physical.

And yet, we will have our memories of life's physical pleasures, if that is good and if it is God's will.

Bob
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: musicman on September 30, 2007, 08:03:23 PM
I would say, hey God, this is more of a request than a question.  This world is over-run with churchian leaders who teach some really strange and even down right disgusting doctrines.  As you know, most of them preach this doctrine of rapture, where all of the "righteous" will be immediately taken to heaven so they can gauk at the rest of us no church losers who will be suffering Your wrath.  I was thinking of a great idea.  Every time one of these lost non scriptualists teaches one of their damnable doctrines, perhaps you could rapture them right out of our lives.  I even have an idea for how You could help us understand their dissapearance.  Every one of them could have a note in their pants pockets which are "left behind".  That note could say something like, "gone to prison to await judgement".  This also goes for Kurt Cammeraman and Ray Uncomfort.  As soon as they explain the 10 commandments to some crying sap who admits to stealing a pencil once, and that the bible teaches that they deserve an eternity of searing hot fire, . . . poof, away with them.  Please God, I can't take it any more.  These false prophets are irritating.  And those who believe them will have to explain the notes left in their "left behind" pants pockets.   
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Beloved on September 30, 2007, 09:01:18 PM
Musicman

a note in the pant pockets
that is way too funny...I loved it ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Beloved
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: gmik on September 30, 2007, 09:38:01 PM
Beloved, I think I am following you around :D

That was funny musicman!

Now Bob, hmmmm, I don't know. (and at your age, too ;))

Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: skydreamers on October 01, 2007, 03:23:31 PM
(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t81/skydreamers/emoticons/musicman.gif)  musicman, that was super funny!  Good one!

(http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t81/skydreamers/emoticons/rofl2.gif)  (http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t81/skydreamers/emoticons/hilarious.gif)
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: ez2u on October 07, 2007, 01:40:13 AM
umm all very good questions  I  guess my question would be can I sit by you for a little while and know you better?  Just can't get enough.  Peggy.
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: gmik on October 07, 2007, 12:25:18 PM
That is a good one Peggy
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: rdk5215 on July 03, 2008, 03:05:15 AM
Does 1+1 REALLY equal 2?
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Roy Monis on July 03, 2008, 11:02:24 AM
Hi! musicman

Their heresies are bad enough but if they have to drop their pants as well, it's sure going to be a sight for sore eyes. I'd have to put dark glasses on and pretend I never looked. Ladies dark glasses are the order of the day.

God bless you brother in our joint walk in Christ. 

Love in Christ Jesus.

Roy UK     


Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: OBrenda on July 03, 2008, 01:08:16 PM
I'd like to know why after many years of experiencing Pain & Strife, Learning and Growing in His Wisdom,  we are then rewarded with wrinkles, bad backs, and where the heck did I leave my keys this morning?    (probably carried off by those nasty roaches again)
Seems to me the Older we get, The better looking we should be with the energy to do something with it! ;)

But I think I know what the answer would be...
Brenda

P.S. My 2nd Question............How can it be possible you LOVED us so much....You sacrificed Jesus for such as We?
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: carol v on July 03, 2008, 01:27:17 PM
I was scanning down page 1 thinking what an interesting thread this is and came across an answer and said to myself "Yes, that's is exactly what I want to know too" -- then I looked over and found it was written by me in 2006. Haha.

But good responses from everyone whether in 2006 or those today.

carol v
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Samson on July 04, 2008, 01:21:53 PM
Quote from: eutychus
Quote from: Gill
Can i add spiders and daddy-long-legs?  :lol:

I think i would ask why He planned for the scriptures to be butchered.  I have my thoughts on why, but that's what i'd ask.

Gill,

im not God :shock:  but here is one reason :wink:


Isa 28:13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. :wink:


peace
chuckt

I would ask why such a plan that needed one to be broken, snared, and taken.  Why the drama?  Pain?  Suffering??   Just make us all perfect ready to be "all in all" with You.  Who needs this life???  Why has this lasted thousands of years???

Well, that was more than one.

Wow Everyone,

                       I saw this thread listed and said to myself, that looks interesting, not realizing how far back this began. I tend to share GMik's sentiments stated above, in my case, I might be afraid of deliberately offending him, I've probably already done that before. Perhaps, If I ask the question that Gena might Ask, stated above, because that's my line of thinking, he might respond by saying: " It's none of your business, why I decided to do things the way I did, afterall, your just made from soil, one of my creation".  ;D ;D ;D. This thread seems to be a mixture of humor and seriousness. Of course, God can read my mind and know all my questions, doubts, and fears;etc.

                                        Yours, Samson.  ;)
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: EKnight on July 04, 2008, 07:51:03 PM
I'd be like, "hey God, you already know what I'm going to ask, don't you".  ;D

Eileen
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Kent on July 04, 2008, 11:06:36 PM
As scarred up as I am, I'd like to know why he even bothered. Thats what I want to know.
 >:(
And to top it off, I know others have / had it worse than I did / do.
I'd like to know why he bothered creating people just for them to get the crap kicked out of them. Thanks God, I really appreciate that.

But I wont even bother asking. I dont need a sarcastic answer. 
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Ray-Ray on July 05, 2008, 01:35:30 AM
I would ask ,who,s going to bury the last man? lol, peace Ray-Ray
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: joyful1 on July 05, 2008, 08:16:57 PM
 :D
Dear God,
When the "stars sang together" what did it sound like?
Sincerely,
Joyce :)
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: a_child_of_God on July 06, 2008, 06:24:21 AM
Hi Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord

I'd ask God what His purpose was/is for having my skin break out with sores. I get asked almost all the time if I have some sort of skin condition or skin disease. According to my late mother, I've been having skin breakouts since I was about 2 years old. My foster parents couldn't get me to quit picking at my skin, and my husband tells me not to pick. That's like telling a smoker to quit smoking.

Well, whatever is causing my skin to breakout was not passed to my wonderful children.

a child of God
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: frecklegirl417 on July 06, 2008, 02:35:06 PM
 ;D  This is a good thread whether it was new or old. My question to God would have to be a two part question.....Are we really on the right path and why? I know it is probally going to cause some people to think I am not a true believer but I am. I was just thinking about this thread for a couple of days before I posted. Wouldn't be nice to hear him say we are correct in are learning and give us a big pat on the back for our effort. Sometimes I wonder if when the sun shines if he is smiling at us or when it rains is he crying? See, just sitting here typing gave me two more questions. ;D


                                                                              All God's Love and Understanding,
                                                                                          Frecklegirl
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: David on July 06, 2008, 11:55:02 PM
Are Brambles alien creatures or just plants? Why do they grab me if I go near them? (thats two)
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Roy Monis on July 07, 2008, 08:40:33 AM
Hi!

My question would be. Dear Lord why do you love such a thoughtless, ungrateful and deceitful decaying speck of clay like me?

God bless you brothers and sisters in our joint walk in Christ. 

Love in Christ Jesus.

Roy UK     
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Samson on July 07, 2008, 11:35:20 AM
Hi!

My question would be. Dear Lord why do you love such a thoughtless, ungrateful and deceitful decaying speck of clay like me?

God bless you brothers and sisters in our joint walk in Christ. 

Love in Christ Jesus.

Roy UK     


Hey Roy,

             That's a great question, that most of us ask. The answer is at 1John. 4:8, GOD IS LOVE and we know better regards that simple verse. The churches don't really believe that simple statement, because He IS Love, not " could be" or "should be" or " would be" based on anything we should, could, would or have done to receive that Love. Of course my Brother, you already know this. God IS Love just like Jesus IS the Savior of the World, regardless of what we do about it. Such a simple explanation by Ray is prolific to me. The word IS is a state of being and all of us didn't see something this simple, when we belonged to Christendom. It sometimes makes me wonder; If I didn't understand something that simple and basic, then I couldn't understand anything without
God's opening my spiritual eyes and apparently didn't understand that God IS Love(Agapeo) for everyone.

               So then Roy, God does Love you the way you are,  ;)

                                             Kind regards, Samson.
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: Roy Monis on July 08, 2008, 03:58:55 PM
Hi! Samson

The Book that they sent me is the "Comprehensive Concordance" which was listed under Bibles on the Watch Tower. It will come in very useful no doubt but I rang them and they asked me for some reference number on the Bible I required or Whether it was a KJV or NIV edition. I didn't have a clue so could you please help out.

Thanks and tell your better half from me that I'm pleased she thinks I'm a handsome guy.

God bless you brother and sister in our joint walk in Christ. 

Love in Christ Jesus.

Roy UK     
 
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: David on July 08, 2008, 04:49:00 PM
Hi!

My question would be. Dear Lord why do you love such a thoughtless, ungrateful and deceitful decaying speck of clay like me?    


Great Question Roy my dear brother. Its one we probably all ask at some point. Something I have been thinking about just lately which I'd like to share which is kind of relevant to this question. We read and understand much about the humility of Christ, his sacrifice, the humility and sacrifice of the Apostles, and how we must at least live up to that standard if we are to be Gods elect.
But as humble as these truths make us feel, I've been even more humbled recently by contemplating just what God has freely given us. I tried to imagine what it would be like to be fabulously wealthy, say a Billionaire.........would I be willing to give it all away, leaving myself nothing, to people like us? Lets say I owned a country, would I be willing to just give it freely to people like us? Would I be willing to freely sacrifice my only begotten Son as a propitiation for the sins of people like us?
Now try and imagine creating something as vast and complex as the entire universe for the purpose of providing a perfect planet for people like us to dwell on for several thousand years. As if thats not enough, God then gives us his only begotten Son to be our savior. At the beginning of Revelation 21, it indicates that God is going to create again.
Compaired to what God has done and is doing for us, you description of how we are is an understatement.
God bless you Roy.
 
Title: Re: If you could ask God just 1 question
Post by: dewey on July 09, 2008, 01:25:31 AM
If I could ask just one question it would have to be something like this.
  Father how many times have you created your children . I ask this Father because you say in [Ecc1:9] what has been done will be done again, there is nothing new under the sun, you go on to say in V10 is there any thing one can say,look this is something new.It was here already , long ago, it was herebefore our time.V11 there is no remembreance of men of old, and eventhose who are yet to come will not be remembred by those who follow.
    And I belive that if our father answred me he would say son this number that you want to hear is so far out of flesh and blood understandeing, that it would dumb found you , there is no number I have allways been and I have allways created.
    David your bringing up REV21 , planted this though ,on my mind ,thanks .
  In thr spirit of Jesus Christ love yuans, dewey said it