re: Does God play favorites?

Quoting grizzy:" I think finding a great lover, having a child, and etc. are possessions because you want them...Not ... [snip!] ... who beg to have children and can't when that's all they want and others can even when they don't appreciate they're children."

Hence why I feel God plays favorites. Seriously, what makes one person more deserving of love and happiness than another?

<blockquote><b>Quoting Back to Noob Status:</b>" I wouldn't consider a child or a loving partner and great friends to be "material/worldly possessions.""</blockquote>




They are not material but worldy yes. You do not take them to heaven with you- not in any way on this earth at least

Quoting Back to Noob Status:" Hence why I feel God plays favorites. Seriously, what makes one person more deserving of love and happiness than another?"

I'm 27 years old and didn't find that love and happiness until last year. My mother didn't find it till she was in her mid 30s.

You'll find it, sooner or later you'll find it. And when you do, it won't be God's fault or the devils fault... it'll be part of life.


I don't believe God or the devil really actively do much in our lives, though I could be wrong, I think they just sit on the sidelines more than anything... cheering us on or heckling us down...

Quoting Rumpelstiltskin:" I'm 27 years old and didn't find that love and happiness until last year. My mother didn't find it ... [snip!] ... though I could be wrong, I think they just sit on the sidelines more than anything... cheering us on or heckling us down... "

Oh, but twenty-seven is still young! Many people are just settling down and having their first child at that age. Mid thirties...yes, a little later, but still young. And I find that most people, at least on BG, seem to find their mates very early in life (like teens to early twenties). But then again, BG isn't really representative of the world.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Rumpelstiltskin:</b>" I don't believe he plays favorites, but if he did then it would be the other way around.... he makes ... [snip!] ... makes his "favorites" have harder lives because he trusts they are stronger. But no, I don't believe he plays favorites..."</blockquote>

Exactly. Because he knows they will always be loyal to him. They will be faithful through thick and thin. Some people say a relationship with god is much like that of a spouse. Always faithful. I'm trying to remember who it was in the bible but someone had always been given the short stick but still remained faithful. many people in the bible encountered tough times yet still held their faithfulness to god. Even Jesus. He coul have been bitter when his best friend and disciple Paul betrayed him yet he forgave him. He did not blame god for not having good friends.

<blockquote><b>Quoting lolajessup:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Rumpelstiltskin:</b>" I don't believe he plays favorites, but ... [snip!] ... when his best friend and disciple Paul betrayed him yet he forgave him. He did not blame god for not having good friends."</blockquote>



Are you talking about Job?

<blockquote><b>Quoting grizzy:</b>" I think finding a great lover, having a child, and etc. are possessions because you want them...Not ... [snip!] ... who beg to have children and can't when that's all they want and others can even when they don't appreciate they're children."</blockquote>


Exactly. Monks and nuns do not have children or spouses and have a very great life in their eyes. They focus on their relationship with god and their mission in life.

Quoting Back to Noob Status:" Oh, but twenty-seven is still young! Many people are just settling down and having their first child ... [snip!] ... their mates very early in life (like teens to early twenties). But then again, BG isn't really representative of the world."

The majority of marriages on BG aren't all that great!  

<blockquote><b>Quoting ~Julie Blue Eyes~:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting lolajessup:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Rumpelstiltskin:</b>" ... [snip!] ... him yet he forgave him. He did not blame god for not having good friends."</blockquote> Are you talking about Job?"</blockquote>


Perhaps. I don't remember. I just remember hearing a story.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Rumpelstiltskin:</b>" The majority of marriages on BG aren't all that great!  "</blockquote>

 

Quoting ~Julie Blue Eyes~:" <blockquote><b>Quoting lolajessup:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting Rumpelstiltskin:</b>" ... [snip!] ... him yet he forgave him. He did not blame god for not having good friends."</blockquote> Are you talking about Job?"

OMG I hate the story of Job.... seriously, hate that story.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Rumpelstiltskin:</b>" OMG I hate the story of Job.... seriously, hate that story. "</blockquote>


What is it? I just had to delete my app bible and haven't downloaded my we one so I can't look it up haha.

Quoting lolajessup:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Rumpelstiltskin:</b>" OMG I hate the story of Job.... seriously, ... [snip!] ... What is it? I just had to delete my app bible and haven't downloaded my we one so I can't look it up haha."

basically God gives him one hardship after another to prove that Job won't question Him. Seriously, he loses his house, his health, his kids all die and his wife leaves him and he is in sever pain ....and then he questions God and God gets all pissy with him.


I've not read that book in a long time, I refuse to because I hate it so much....

<blockquote><b>Quoting Rumpelstiltskin:</b>" basically God gives him one hardship after another to prove that Job won't question Him. Seriously, ... [snip!] ... God and God gets all pissy with him. I've not read that book in a long time, I refuse to because I hate it so much.... "</blockquote>


I love "god gets all pissy with him" haha! Yeah that's the story I'm thinking of. But yeah it's sad   What was gods plan then for job?

Quoting lolajessup:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Rumpelstiltskin:</b>" basically God gives him one hardship ... [snip!] ... gets all pissy with him" haha! Yeah that's the story I'm thinking of. But yeah it's sad   What was gods plan then for job?"

I don't think it's a "true story" so much as a fable told. But he was proving that Job was a good one who never questioned God's plan and all....

God ended up blessing him with a new family and a new home later on, and his house was rebuilt even better...

I just hate how mean God seems in it. Though God doesn't really inflect him, it's more he allows him to be afflicted by satan or something... I don't remember exactly.

The Bishop keeps yelling at me since I won't read Job or Revelations....