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Author Topic:   Why Would God Care?
Neutralmind
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Message 190 of 217 (396345)
04-19-2007 5:16 PM


The question isn't hard
189 posts and all of them are dodging the question. It's pretty simple.
There's a God that has feelings, why would he care about us doing something that's immoral, or sinning if it doesn't hurt anyone?
I think it's an important question and I've thought about it too. I'm more of a creationist than atheist, but not by much. All this question dodging isn't doing anyone a favor.
My answer for the question would be. I have no idea why God would care about us sinning or behaving immorally if it doesn't hurt anyone. If it did hurt someone, then I can understand why God wouldn't like that. He would be concerned of us not hurting each other. Why? We are also concerned if someone hurts someone and if God has feelings even superficially like ours, he wouldn't also like anyone being hurt.
Why would we care if someone does things considered sin, that don't hurt anyone? I don't care if someone's gay or masturbates. Why would I? No one's getting hurt.

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Neutralmind
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Message 192 of 217 (396367)
04-19-2007 6:45 PM
Reply to: Message 191 by purpledawn
04-19-2007 6:17 PM


Re: Not Dodging
You ask "Why would he care about us doing something that's immoral or sinning if it doesn't hurt anyone?" No one has shown that God does care about actions that don't hurt anyone else.
But I think we're talking about the god of the bible here. The bible clearly says that you shall not lie with another man. So the bible is against homosexuality. Which I don't see how it would hurt anyone.

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Neutralmind
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Message 194 of 217 (396558)
04-20-2007 8:33 PM
Reply to: Message 193 by purpledawn
04-20-2007 7:24 AM


Re: Rest of the Story
So is the concern actually for the action or control issues to steer his people away from that religion?
Were these practices causing problems in Egypt that the God of Abraham wanted to avoid for his people?
We can't know what was God's reason(ing) for deeming those actions bad, we can just speculate. What we can know is that some actions (or even thoughts) are considered bad by the God of the Bible.
To understand the laws of Leviticus we need to look at what was going on at the time to try and understand the reasoning behind the law.
Are you saying that some of Bible's teachings do not concern us anymore but were just for the people of that time?

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