Did God have to SEE the LIGHT to tell it was GOOD?
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He's omniscient and omnipotent, but even he didn't want to work in the dark, hello? :P\n\nMan, wish I could sleep... Almost 5 am and here I sit answering random jackoff questions, lol.
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Yes, God is good, God is love and God is HOLY. \n\nSince God is not a human (God the Father is in no way a human) this would be akin to saying that the Judge who sentenced the child rapist to the chair is not good, unfair, etc.
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We are human and cannot possibly know what God knows.  Do I believe things he has done?  Yes.  Can I with certainty explain how it was done? No.  I don't necessarily think it's doubt, I just think it's being unaware.  The longer you have a relationship with God, the more you will come to understand.  He will make some things clearer so that His will can be done.  We are his servants.  So in some ways I agree with you but I don't like the use of the word doubt, that makes me think of being unfaithful.  I see it more as being in the dark, not able to understand.  He is God, our Creator.  We are merely human.
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A belief in God allows you the privilege of believing the book. It is not the other way around as your Question would seem. Once god allows you to believe you will understand why the bible is soooooooo special. Here is part of an article I wrote for my local paper maybe it will help!?\n\nIt’s hard to see when your blind!\nScriptures for thought 1 Corn 2:14 & 2 Corn 4:4\n\nNeither myself nor any other human being has the ability to pursued, convince or other wise manipulate any other human being into a saving knowledge of Christ. There simply is nothing I can say, no act I can perform, that will fully allow you to understand what I KNOW to be true. I may be able to help you understand some things about God but I can’t make you KNOW him. This knowledge is a gift given by God, on his on accord, for his purpose and by his prerogative. Please understand that my saving knowledge or unquestionable trust in the bible is not a thought or an idea I decided or convinced myself into believing. The only reason I can believe what I KNOW is because God lets me KNOW. Period.  Water is wet, fire is hot and God is God.\n\nTry this analogy out.\nHypothetically imagine being born completely physically blind. You have never seen a single color, not a one. Nothing but total, empty, blackness. Now you ask me "what color is pink"? What could I possibly say to make you completely and accurately understand what color pink is? You can’t physically touch or feel color. You would be forced to either allow your imagination to take my descriptive words that you have no basis of context to compare them to and create and imaginary idea of what color pink is or you will concede that it is impossible to know what color pink is having never seen a single color of any kind in your whole life. Or…. Take little 2yr old Johnny and a hot stove as an example. Don’t you touch that stove little Johnny, it’s very hot and it’s going to burn you. But little Johnny doesn’t yet know hot or burn. I can futility try to explain to him what hot and burn are but until he experiences the realities of hot and burn he has no real context to understand them. Ah but after he grabs that hot stove…If eyesight were given to the blind. Now they would KNOW. Now they can understand the things we tried to explain with words. They now have first hand experiential knowledge that completely changes their perspective. This is kind of how a saving knowledge of Christ works. We are all totally blind and absolutely cannot know saving grace until he allows us to see him. He is the only physician in existence that can heal our spiritual blindness. There are no glasses to help, no magic word I can tell you. No, the faith to believe is a merciful gift of god. Now certainty we can and must teach each other things about God, which we can choose to, accept or reject, but teachings about god alone cannot make you completely and savingly, know God. When and to whom God allows himself to be seen is one of the beautiful mysteries that belongs exclusively to God. It is knowledge that only he posses.\nI understand this probably sounds a little weird and if deep thought is applied it may even sound terribly scary. Let me encourage you friends, don’t despair. There is hope. I know first hand. I wandered though this world blind as a bat for the first 29 of the 33 years I was alive. In the infamous song Amazing Grace “I once was blind but now can see”. Now, if you find yourself saying this is all a bunch of bullarkey….. then maybe next time my friend. But to all of you who are struck with deep curiosity and find yourself thinking; could this be true? I must know more. I want to see.  Knock and the door will be opened, Ask and you will receive. Call on the name of the Lord and you will be saved. Pick up a bible and read it with the desire to understand the words, instead of looking for ways to ridicule them. Enjoy they peace and comfort that only Jesus can give your soul.\n\n\nLes
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god is every where but we cannot see it every time we help poor and needy people god is in their eyes, dont lie do good things help others u will see god in you
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God works in mysterious ways. It is not for us to understand God's work. We must have faith that He is all knowing and His actions should never be questioned.Our feeble minds could never comprehend Gods love for us.
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Yes, its true here's proof\n\n 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.\n\n 2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.\n\n 3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.\n\n 6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.\n\n 9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.\n\n 11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.\n\n 14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.\n\n 20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.\n\n 24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.\n\n 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."\n\n 27 So God created man in his own image,\n       in the image of God he created him;\n       male and female he created them. \n\n\n\n< then we would find them as solid Rocks?>\nWe'll still have to find out.
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I have.  And it looks good to me.  No religion is perfect I must confess, but there are certain beliefs that are needed.  I found my faith that is the best beliefs.  I had analyzed many others, but all weren't biblical.  I don't need a priest, I just need me and God.  And the beliefs that God gave us.  Like eating healthy, following His law for our own benefit out of obedience, the Sabbath, etc.  If we all looked at our beliefs and religion, we would be a perfect religion.  But again, there are different beliefs and people would still disagree.
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the short answer is, he's freakin' god.  he can do whatever he wants.\ndon't try to explain it scientifically; it won't work.  either accept it or don't.\noh and "the light was from the stars" doesn't work, because the stars were part of the firmament, which i believe came after the light.\nreligion and science are not always mutually exclusive, but they don't jive for the first 7 days, at least.
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In the past, God did do that. He performed miracles for the Israelites such as the plagues, he got them through the Red Sea, he provided manna for them in the wilderness so that they could survive but even with all that - they still did not do the one thing he asked of them which was to obey him and no other.  So, do you really think that if he provided proof of his existence through a miracle or something that people would believe in him??? The Israelites didn't. But do you know that he does provide proof of his existence today? How you say? Well, look around you - the earth and it's many beautiful and wonderful creations - to start with, there is us as humans. Only a higher power could of created such an intrensic, complex being. There is animals, all of their different kinds, plants, flowers... all of this is a testament to God who created it! He also has provided the bible - which is like a letter from a Father to his children. This provides everything we need to know about how this earth was created, where we have been and where we are going. \nI don't think that by God just appearing or providing a miracle to prove he exists would really do much in making people believe in him - just remember the Israelites.
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God does not judge anything ever so God does not see the world in terms of right and wrong.\n\nThese ideas are our creations and we try our best to create a God as confused as we are.\n\nLove and blessings Don
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that is truly a good message. yes i have faith and it has seen me through plenty of hard times. i have noticed by some of these other answers people like to twist words around. and make something negative out of a positive message. i haven't read any thing in that message that says faith is blind, i take the message as meaning that if you trust in the lord you dont need too see.\nwhat was quoted was\n2nd Corinthians 5:7 for we walk by Faith not by sight. \nSome people may wonder what the bible means when it says walk by faith not by sight. \n\nso i take it that the person who said that this means faith is blind and thats wrong is saying the bible is wrong.\n\nseems like the devil was offend by your message great job may you keep on doing gods work.
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lol good question i have thought bout this how do we know waht's good and whats evil ... we all have dif views so good and evil could never be 100% just. What i think is good you might think it is evil, what you think is good i might think it is actually evil.  But we do agree on alot of things as humans there is plenty of comon ground so to speak that is how we consider good from evil.
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<*> The better question would be , does God recognize it?
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Well if you believe in god, then yes i think he should have done (if he was a good person of course). But not for the reason you state.\n\nHe interpreted gods greater book, NATURE!  Why go to hell for that?\n\nWhy believe the manual over the product!  Sorry but if parts of it don't match what we see and observe for ourselves then the book is wrong.\n\nGo here...\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/\nhttp://www.talkorigins.org/origins/outline.html
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I apologize in advance for the length of my answer, but your question is not a simple one, and a simple answer would not do justice to your question. At that, this answer is relatively brief, and I fear may still be incomplete when viewed against the scope of your question.\n\nThink of God’s goodness. Often people naively assume that God’s goodness will somehow keep him from damning us. To the contrary! What hath darkness to do with light? It’s precisely God’s goodness that drives him to condemn people who carry sin. Consider the story of The Good Policeman.\n\nThe Good Policeman was walking down Main Street one day when he saw a little old lady with a walker trying to cross the street. As he watched the little old lady, he saw a large Buick fly past him and come to a screeching halt next to the little old lady. Three young men hopped out of the car, laughing. One of them pushed the old lady to the ground, while another started kicking her in the abdomen, then the legs, then the face. Another of the men smashed his heel into the old woman’s face while she screamed in pain. Even from a distance, the Good Policeman could hear bones crack. Finally, one of the young men did the unthinkable. He pulled a knife out of his belt and slit the woman’s throat. But the Good Policeman witnessed these events. So as the men walked back toward their vehicle, he rushed up to them and thrust his hand out in front of them and said, “Hi. I’m the Good Policeman. And I want you to know that I LOVE you.” \n\nWhat’s wrong with the story? Is it a ‘good’ policeman? Of course not! A good policeman would have run up to the men, arrested them, and taken them to court to be punished! This is not a good policeman, but an evil one! If he were good, his goodness would require the guilty to be punished! Yet we expect God to be like the Good Policeman—all love and mercy and grace, with no punishment, no justice, no vengeance, no anger, no wrath. We expect him to see our sin and rebellion and just say, “I love you!” God cannot be good unless he punishes evil. The difficult question is not why God condemns sinners to hell, but why he doesn’t condemn all sinners to hell! For that, we have to understand the cross, where Jesus was punished in our place, so that all who seek him might stand before God blameless, the punishment for their sins already paid in full by our willing scapegoat Jesus.\n\nWe deserve nothing but contempt from God. I’ve known people who haven’t been converted to Christ until they heard people who seemed more “religious” and more “righteous” than they were confessing that they themselves were worthy of hell. That’s when it hits home. People think, “Wow, if this holy-roller thinks he deserves to burn in fire, then what chance have I got?” I’ve found the reality of it really hits home when I very soberly confess, “You know, I think God is really angry with humanity. He’s really mad at us. Things aren’t okay between us and God”\n\nOften an objection believers hear to the truthfulness of Christianity relates to the problem of evil. Philosophers state the objection at a sophisticated level in logical propositions. But even those without professional training experience the problem of evil. The world is full of suffering, death — babies born deformed, children dying of starvation. Hitlers, Stalins, and Paul Potts murder millions. How could a good, all-powerful God have created such a universe? Believers often express this objection in a more reverent fashion — How can a good and sovereign God tolerate suffering?\n\nIn the Story of the Good Policeman, it is clear that the Good Policeman would have been just to punish the criminals, but why wouldn’t a Good Policeman prevent the crime in the first place? Is God too weak? Or is he just an evil God?\n\nThe Argument from Evil: These 3 points are incompatible — We must get rid of at least one of them: \n1. God is all-powerful \n2. God is good
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I have many favorites, but this one really stands out to me.\n\nHebrews 11:3\n\n"By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."\n\nI really like this verse because it shows that our faith in God is not visible, but we still trust and believe in it.  Not all things are visible, but we always rely that they are there.  Oxygen and air, for example, are not visible yet we breathe the fresh air we intake into our lungs in order to survive every day.  \nWe need the breath of God in order to live fully.