The Questioning Christian

“My Problem With God”

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D. C. Toedt III

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A British blogger’s posting today makes him sound like a seeker:

Let me say before I start, there is only one God I have a problem with, the God of the Bible fundamentalists, the great celestial puppet master whom they would have us believe is pulling everybody’s strings.

The more distant God of the Anglicans, the Unitarians, Quakers, Wesleyans, Allah, Brahmin etc. are all fine by me. * * *

Yes, there was an Emperor Tiberius and a Governor of Palestine called Pontias [sic] Pilate, there was also Kings Macbeth, Duncan and Malcolm but it does not makes Shakespeare’s play a documentary, the fact that there was a Scottish renegade called William Wallace who rebelled against King Robert the Bruce and led an army against King Edward the First of England does not make the film Braveheart
factual.

There was actually a King Midas. Did his touch turn his daughter to gold?   Decide for yourselves, there is no evidence that it didn’t but it seems unlikely.

See what I am getting at?

Link:  Headbutt: My Problem With God (extra paragraphing added)

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2 responses to ““My Problem With God””

  1. BobW Avatar
    BobW

    Did Jesus rise first from death, then bodily to heaven? Borrowing from our friend, there’s no evidence that he didn’t, but it seems unlikely.
    And that’s the whole point.
    Joseph knew full well how women become pregnant, and though he was gentleman enough not to set his betrothed up for a stoning he certainly was not buying into any Holy Ghost arglebargle until he, too, had had things explained to him by an unimpeachable (and equally improbable) source. Judeans and Romans alike knew that dead bodies remained dead bodies, and did not push aside stones and not simply eat fish but cook it. Call it faith if you will, and place it in Jesus or Ahura Mazda or Brahmin, but is it really all that likely even in a strictly materialistic view of things that we Earthlings have exhausted what is and is not possible in this universe? And to he who brought it out of nothing?
    Many of us Anglicans, Wesleyans and Quakers would hardly decribe God as “distant,” and whatever their faults, (and whatever the term actually means,) many fundies would join us in saying that it’s this idea that we can pull our own strings that’s gotten us into this mess, just as it got MacBeth and his Lady into theirs.
    I wish our seeker well; and predict a safe arrival.

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  2. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    There is a fourth opiton. Jesus said through Luke when asked about a tower that killed 18 men, “Unless you repent, you will all perish.”

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