Why would GOD instruct those HE loves to suffer in that way? Be wise as your Father is wise and adjust to this wicked world until The Kingdom of GOD provides all of the neccesities of life for "Free".......
I think I just threw up in my mouth. I haven't followed your posts, Son, but you must not have read that book clear through. This is the god that wants to destroy anyone that doesn't acknowledge him. He's had his followers commit genocide in the past, wipe out entire civilizations of peaceful (for the most part) people so that he could consoliate his power base. He himself says he's a jealous god and will not tolerate disobedience.
That son of his, the one who's nickname you so blithely take as your own (some hubris in that), said that we would have all of our needs met NOW if we had enough faith. Guess all those folks who are waiting and working 3 jobs just don't have enough faith, huh? Or how about all those church-going people that outsource the jobs to Malaysia to get cheap labor and lay off the church-going people here that are just trying to make a living. Whats the predominate religion in Malaysia?
And what about the people that pray that the hurricane doesn't kill them, just like the neighbor across the street is praying. One gets killed and the other doesn't. Why did your god "listen" to one and not the other?
What about the young catholic boy or the jw boy (or lots of other religions for that matter), who prays every night, but who gets raped by the very shepherd claiming to protect the flock?
Yea, no one is perfect, I get that. But that book of yours makes a lot of promises and I just don't see any of them coming true.
Ada