why can't people just love god??
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some people are blinded by sin.but all we can do for those people is pray for them every time we get a chance.just be nice and then maybe they will see god by the way his people act.\n                      God bless all of u
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More importantly, and I suspect this is what you're getting at, why would a god who wants worship set himself up to be totally illogical and irrational? I think that if there was a god controlling it all, we'd be somehow predispositioned to believing in him, rather than having to ignore all logic and reason just to get into heaven.
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Well even God says He is jealous. It's not wrong to think either. He does want us to love Him, honor Him, praise Him and rightly so since He is Almighty and The Creator. It's really only a bad thing if He wanted honor and love that belonged rightfully to someone else.
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What you say just isn't true for many people.  People don't refuse faith; faith just doesn't exist for many people, especially thoughtful, rational-type people.  And you already know that it's not true that God always gives when asked; lots of times He doesn't.\n\nRE: Your Email (Yahoo wouln't let me respond directly):\n\nThanks Jenny.  I've read lots of the Bible growing up.  I have not decided "he doesn't exist."  But if He exists, he has not given me Faith.  To the contrary, He has given me a brain and a heart that do not lead me to Faith, even reading the Bible.  Who knows why, but that's the situation.  I can act like I have Faith, I can pretend I have Faith, but it would be a lie, and I can't just manufacture real Faith.  I'm sure it's very comforting to have Faith (regardless of whether it's well placed).
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If Gods love is in your heart, then you love everybody.  That kind of love isn't about lust though, so your results may vary....
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It is scarry how many crazy people are among us.\n\nA loving god would not play with people like that.  An all knowing god would already know the answer to the question and not have to ask it.
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Did it ever occur  to you that people don't do everything to gain something for themselves but only out of love?\nPeople who are interested in helping you believe in God only want to share what they have found with you. \nYou are still free to reject it and they should respect your choice.
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Because only Christ brings real joy. They don't get it, so they're confused. They haven't experienced God's love, otherwise they'd wish they never didn't believe
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No I don't. I believe in God, but I also think you can't force people to conform to what you as a person want them to believe. It's not fair. At the same time, people should noot look down on people who believe in God thinking they are stupid for believing in a higher power. I personally can embrace anyone no matter what they believe. You just have to be open minded about everything, even if you don't want to.
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God to me...and many other people...means love!but there are some people who look to God as a being that people worship so they would feel all secure!\nbut i love God...and i live and am placed here to serve Him!but as i understand your question...we are not perfect!true it's wrong to hurt someone in anyway...and true..God will do anything for me..He even gave his only son for me so that i maybe free of my debts[sins]!but God loves me nomatter what!once you give your life to God..He will love you and protect you with all his heart!and even if you do wrong...He will always forgive you!belive in what you believe!believe in God!coz he is the greatest!and if what you believe makes you happy....then simply keep beliveing and loving and serving the Almighty!
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Young Pastor with your heart in the right place:  God is not a thief that He would steal the hearts of man.  Accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior is a choice that each one of us must make from the heart.  \n\nAs you can tell from most of the questions and answers here very few people are ambiguous about how they feel about God.  It is to those people you should share the Gospel of Jesus.  Show them hope and the promise of salvation.  \n\nBe blessed in your walk with God.  I am.
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There are different levels of love, different reasons for loving someone. Love is not sex (Pappa Mac), that is an entirely different emotion. \n  Many people in the bible died because of their belief in God. They stood for what they believed in, knowing that God would love them for all eternity. There is no one perfect person on this earth, yet God loves every single person. He is not biased, he is not racist, he is not ethnic... God loves everyone, including those who choose to hate someone else for whatever reason. I think you're right on in how you feel & what you believe in. It's yours & you own it. Being in the closet doesn't mean you have no respect or pride.
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Understanding the loving nature of God is difficult when you chose to blame everything negative that happens on God.\n\nGod is not responsible for these things, we are.\n\nBlaming it all on God is convenient but it is just using God for a scapegoat, it is not truth.\n\nDon't misunderstand I do understand the thought process that leads to these feelings that God is not loving. For years I ascribed to them, and felt the same way.\n\nOnce I figured out that it was just nonsense that I had been thinking I got over it.\n\nNow I appreciate the love that comes from the source even if I don't always like what I make from it.\n\nLove and blessings Don
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People are not perfect. Nothing like religion for some people to believe they are better or feel they have the right to judge or force religion on other people because of this. Love is unconditional, it gives when it is still being rejected. It humbles itself for a selfless aim of helping others without glory or recognition. It comforts those who do not have any one to comfort. The love of the father is all this and much more...
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People are afraid of things they dont understand. People who dont understand god, spend all their time trying to rationalize with logic why he doesnt exist, which will be a never resolving issue because god is too mysterious to rationalize.
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You cannot ask questions like this for other people.  Each person's relationship with God is personal.
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God is all-powerful; he can turn water into wine and cure the blind. Heck, he created the whole universe. So what makes you think he can't change the text of the bible written by the misguided kings, warlords and other misguided beings who wrote the bible? \n\nAnd I love a God who punished people for the slightest sin as depicted in the infallible bible. So much for the all-forgiving God. \n\nThank you God for making us kill the very people who discovered that the glorious earth You created is not flat.\n\nThank you God for condemning me and 20 billions of soul into hell for being misguided by satan you created. I would rather sit in hell then to be in heaven thinking about all the people suffering in hell, esp my loved ones and the people in the jungles of the third world who has not even heard of You or people who were brought up being a jew, muslim, hindu etc. For that reason, even if He does exist and offers me a place in heaven, i'd say no thanks because it wouldn't be much better in heaven either.