Theocentric Musings

All the statements or implications of God being in complete control over every action or reaction on the planet in scripture and since were all spoken by man. Some of God's actual earliest words to man were Him being clear on giving dominion on the earth to man. He even had man name His various creations. God, Himself, said there was someone that had power on this earth other than him, two in fact, satan and man. Where did the confusion after that come from? Who benefits the most from people thinking God is in control of everything, especially the bad things? Who gets extreme glee from people portraying God as a killer and other sick things He is not? Who has greater power to cause sickness and destruction in people's lives if they believe it's of God and actually welcome it at the first sign instead of rebuking or resisting? satan, maybe? Just something for American Christians™ to ponder.

  God is in complete control? If God is in complete control then every "backslider" back slid because He made them do it, anyone that offended you did it because He made them do it, anyone that hurt you did it because He made them do it, any attacks on your health or home is because He made it happen, so why are you so angry? Anything that happens, good, bad, or ugly is due to God doing it or making it happen. So the obvious reaction should be to stop complaining about it, stop fighting it, just let it happen and learn to deal with it. It isn't anyone but God's fault according to you, if you follow this belief. It's not the devil made them do it, its God made them do it according to this prevalent theology. Talk about calling good evil and evil good. It's not like God, Himself, actually began in the first book of the bible saying that He, Himself, decided to give man dominion over the earth... It's not like God, Himself, didn't tr...

God is in control? Proverbs 19:3 (NLT) - People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then are angry at the Lord

The thing is that much of what is attributed to God even in "infallible" scripture isn't actually true, it was a relational perception at the time of writing. The Holy Spirit didn't make people robots and have them write beyond their revelation, they wrote as things were revealed to them and things that they believed. If any Christian of today was inspired to write a canon of scripture out of the 43,000+ denominations it would be slanted towards their beliefs. God doesn't force you to believe something as false if you don't want to. He can try to reveal it to you but if you (speaking of anyone in general) are set in your beliefs He's not going to "make you" believe something about Him. People aren't mindless zombies. People have prejudices and beliefs that are ingrained in them through various teachings or life experiences. Some of those are toxic false beliefs. If you've been taught the sky is green most of your life it's going...