What makes you think God cares?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are a part of God (source, creator, nature, spirit…..). Just like the waves cannot be separated from the ocean, you can’t be separate from God. You are the hands, heart, and voice of your creator. You are an eternal spiritual being having a temporary physical experience on this earth. We are here to learn and to grow. We always have free will. Your creator cares about you just like you care for your own children and for others. Your heart hurts for the people of Ukraine just as God’s does. Our job is to learn to be more loving, more compassionate, more forgiving. The only way we can do that is through difficulty. Nothing grows on top of the mountain. It’s deep in the valleys where real growth occurs.

Your higher self exists separately. You dispatched this part of yourself to earth for the purpose of your soul growth.

Just my thoughts 💫

So how do we know those are God’s thoughts, if indeed there is a God?

Honest answer- I’m able to tap in and talk to my spirit guides, ancestors, angels, and other benevolent beings during meditation. They can’t give us a lot of information. To do so would defeat the purpose of our physical experience on earth. But they will answer questions. And they will provide signs and validation. This is simply information given to me during meditation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:God has intervened in my life a number of times, which indicates to me he/she cares.

And why do you think God intervened in your life and not in the life of the 10 year old girl kidnapped from her family by military forces and repeatedly gang raped over the course of months or years?
I have been devout for my whole life, but I had a real break when reading this story. It makes it hard for me to understand how any sort of loving God could help me with anything in my life and turn His back on a child like that. I just don’t get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God has intervened in my life a number of times, which indicates to me he/she cares.

And why do you think God intervened in your life and not in the life of the 10 year old girl kidnapped from her family by military forces and repeatedly gang raped over the course of months or years?
I have been devout for my whole life, but I had a real break when reading this story. It makes it hard for me to understand how any sort of loving God could help me with anything in my life and turn His back on a child like that. I just don’t get it.

Consider that there is no God. It's random. He didn't turn his back -- he just doesn't exist.

[Anonymous]

I used to date a guy who was a Christian although not a very good one. He told me once that he believed God does not really care about individuals, that they are all expendable. He said there is lots of evidence of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God has intervened in my life a number of times, which indicates to me he/she cares.

And why do you think God intervened in your life and not in the life of the 10 year old girl kidnapped from her family by military forces and repeatedly gang raped over the course of months or years?
I have been devout for my whole life, but I had a real break when reading this story. It makes it hard for me to understand how any sort of loving God could help me with anything in my life and turn His back on a child like that. I just don’t get it.

Consider that there is no God. It's random. He didn't turn his back -- he just doesn't exist.

Yes, also possible. I also feel like God often seems like a kid that got a pet — very into it at first, lost interest, sporadically gets reimvigorated and checks in, but then gets overwhelmed because …. Like an acquarium, it gets dirty, the snails overpopulate, certain species die off, it’s a lot of work, so when first start to eat each other, they start to think “why did I even bother?” and wander away again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God has intervened in my life a number of times, which indicates to me he/she cares.

And why do you think God intervened in your life and not in the life of the 10 year old girl kidnapped from her family by military forces and repeatedly gang raped over the course of months or years?
I have been devout for my whole life, but I had a real break when reading this story. It makes it hard for me to understand how any sort of loving God could help me with anything in my life and turn His back on a child like that. I just don’t get it.

Consider that there is no God. It's random. He didn't turn his back -- he just doesn't exist.

Yes, also possible. I also feel like God often seems like a kid that got a pet — very into it at first, lost interest, sporadically gets reimvigorated and checks in, but then gets overwhelmed because …. Like an acquarium, it gets dirty, the snails overpopulate, certain species die off, it’s a lot of work, so when first start to eat each other, they start to think “why did I even bother?” and wander away again.

Not exactly worthy of worship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are a part of God (source, creator, nature, spirit…..). Just like the waves cannot be separated from the ocean, you can’t be separate from God. You are the hands, heart, and voice of your creator. You are an eternal spiritual being having a temporary physical experience on this earth. We are here to learn and to grow. We always have free will. Your creator cares about you just like you care for your own children and for others. Your heart hurts for the people of Ukraine just as God’s does. Our job is to learn to be more loving, more compassionate, more forgiving. The only way we can do that is through difficulty. Nothing grows on top of the mountain. It’s deep in the valleys where real growth occurs.

Your higher self exists separately. You dispatched this part of yourself to earth for the purpose of your soul growth.

Just my thoughts 💫

These are lovely thoughts and an interesting point of view, but not logical to me. If you are part of God, why do you need to learn? God already knows. If you are eternal, how could the brief time on earth possibly be enough time to learn anything? Why does your learning have to be on earth?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God has intervened in my life a number of times, which indicates to me he/she cares.

And why do you think God intervened in your life and not in the life of the 10 year old girl kidnapped from her family by military forces and repeatedly gang raped over the course of months or years?
I have been devout for my whole life, but I had a real break when reading this story. It makes it hard for me to understand how any sort of loving God could help me with anything in my life and turn His back on a child like that. I just don’t get it.

Consider that there is no God. It's random. He didn't turn his back -- he just doesn't exist.

Yes, also possible. I also feel like God often seems like a kid that got a pet — very into it at first, lost interest, sporadically gets reimvigorated and checks in, but then gets overwhelmed because …. Like an acquarium, it gets dirty, the snails overpopulate, certain species die off, it’s a lot of work, so when first start to eat each other, they start to think “why did I even bother?” and wander away again.

If my kid wasn’t taking care of his pet, I wouldn’t let the pet suffer. I’d make him do it or step in myself. Where is God’s mom?

[Anonymous]

In my religion - universes end, realities end, dimensions end. Eventually, we all are witnesses to the destruction and keep watching actors come and go. We are one of those actors. Everything is as has been explained. Life is agony but the only way we can be released from this endless cycle of birth and death is when we find Nirvana and our souls get absorbed back to the supreme soul from where we came.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are a part of God (source, creator, nature, spirit…..). Just like the waves cannot be separated from the ocean, you can’t be separate from God. You are the hands, heart, and voice of your creator. You are an eternal spiritual being having a temporary physical experience on this earth. We are here to learn and to grow. We always have free will. Your creator cares about you just like you care for your own children and for others. Your heart hurts for the people of Ukraine just as God’s does. Our job is to learn to be more loving, more compassionate, more forgiving. The only way we can do that is through difficulty. Nothing grows on top of the mountain. It’s deep in the valleys where real growth occurs.

Your higher self exists separately. You dispatched this part of yourself to earth for the purpose of your soul growth.

Just my thoughts 💫

So how do we know those are God’s thoughts, if indeed there is a God?

Honest answer- I’m able to tap in and talk to my spirit guides, ancestors, angels, and other benevolent beings during meditation. They can’t give us a lot of information. To do so would defeat the purpose of our physical experience on earth. But they will answer questions. And they will provide signs and validation. This is simply information given to me during meditation.

In that case we’re very lucky to have you on this board. Posterity will envy me for having known you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God has intervened in my life a number of times, which indicates to me he/she cares.

And why do you think God intervened in your life and not in the life of the 10 year old girl kidnapped from her family by military forces and repeatedly gang raped over the course of months or years?
I have been devout for my whole life, but I had a real break when reading this story. It makes it hard for me to understand how any sort of loving God could help me with anything in my life and turn His back on a child like that. I just don’t get it.

Consider that there is no God. It's random. He didn't turn his back -- he just doesn't exist.

Yes, also possible. I also feel like God often seems like a kid that got a pet — very into it at first, lost interest, sporadically gets reimvigorated and checks in, but then gets overwhelmed because …. Like an acquarium, it gets dirty, the snails overpopulate, certain species die off, it’s a lot of work, so when first start to eat each other, they start to think “why did I even bother?” and wander away again.

If my kid wasn’t taking care of his pet, I wouldn’t let the pet suffer. I’d make him do it or step in myself. Where is God’s mom?

God’s grandmother, Saint Anne, is in a church in Quebec. At least her elbow bone is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are a part of God (source, creator, nature, spirit…..). Just like the waves cannot be separated from the ocean, you can’t be separate from God. You are the hands, heart, and voice of your creator. You are an eternal spiritual being having a temporary physical experience on this earth. We are here to learn and to grow. We always have free will. Your creator cares about you just like you care for your own children and for others. Your heart hurts for the people of Ukraine just as God’s does. Our job is to learn to be more loving, more compassionate, more forgiving. The only way we can do that is through difficulty. Nothing grows on top of the mountain. It’s deep in the valleys where real growth occurs.

Your higher self exists separately. You dispatched this part of yourself to earth for the purpose of your soul growth.

Just my thoughts 💫

God is love.

Glad we got that cleared up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:God has intervened in my life a number of times, which indicates to me he/she cares.

And why do you think God intervened in your life and not in the life of the 10 year old girl kidnapped from her family by military forces and repeatedly gang raped over the course of months or years?
I have been devout for my whole life, but I had a real break when reading this story. It makes it hard for me to understand how any sort of loving God could help me with anything in my life and turn His back on a child like that. I just don’t get it.

Read the Book of Job.

It's one of the shortest books in the Bible. One tidbit - Job was not supposed to ask why. But his whole family died and he got a bad disease, maybe leprosy.

[Anonymous]

“God isn’t real! Also: I hate God.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't, at all.

You are so very much, because you post here daily. That’s caring about a topic.

wut??

It’s what, not wut. If you don’t believe in God, why waste time discussing God or pondering a God you don’t believe in? Why do you care about the thing you don’t believe exists being something?