If God hears all your questions then why isn't there ever an answer?
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Dude I love the questions you ask they are so…well thought of :)
Probably because one day they will and you won’t notice till it’s there
Just so long as I don’t get hold music…
Bevuase there is nothing to do the answering.
Who says there isn’t?
Perhaps you’re not listening?
He always answers. you have to be tuned into Him for the answers. where you are spiritually will determine “THE” answer. blondesjon above said it just right.
There are always answers…. sometimes maybe not the one you want to hear, but don’t confuse that with no answer.
And maybe the answer you want isnt the best answer for you.
@AstroChuck . . .I think the real question is, “Why do we keep doing this?”
HINT: it’s thursday…
I can’t help but think of Garth Brooks… “Some of God’s greatest gifts… are unanswered prayers.” XD
Because he’s gettin’ it on with Mother Nature.
The broader question is, What are your expectations of God? I sometimes think we should wonder more about what God’s expectations are of us.
@avalmez Ask not what God can do for you, ask what you can do for God?
No not exactly. Ask what God can do for you if you understand what God expects of you.
I mean let’s get serious. Assume god for the moment. Who between humans and god is more beholding?
Every day of my life i experience an answered prayer from God. Every day I thank Him for my blessings.
Give us today’s example ok? It’s probably important for others to understand how God answers your prayers.
There’s always an answer. It may be “yes” “no” “maybe” or “wait”
also, make sure you’re listening :)
@kevbo Thank you for the best laugh of the day
What is important is that u understand my meaning in any case
@Blondesjon: Is Spot behelping you cheat?
Ja se on anice päivä banaanialan kalaa.
God doesnt just give you the answer right to your face. you have to look for signs that He will be sending. try noticing little things that He might be trying to tell you.
@YARNLADY: And jonsblond has his llama, Spot, do all the hard work.
I now have this bookmarked.
Si este es muy chingas de rizas!
No se. Digame por favor? Una chica europana hablando espanol estilo mexicano qui sas?
Maybe you have to clear your mind of chatter and actually be looking for an answer.
If god does exist, she would never answer directly. The whole point of free will is to be allowed to make your own choices. The best you can hope for are signs. I think the more in tune you are with god, the more successful you’ll be at interpreting those signs.
If god does not exist, there is no one there to answer. The whole point of free will is to make your own choices. The best you can hope for are signs. I think the more in tune you are with yourself, the more successful you’ll be at interpreting those signs.
Why do birds always fly south?
Is it so absurd to think that life’s answers might come from nature and other people rather than an omnipotent being?
Obviously the answers will come from nature and from other people.
How were you expecting the answers? Morgan Freeman calling you into his office?
But if you aren’t paying attention then the answers will go unnoticed.
God has a message for you:
Your call is important to us, please continue to hold. All of our representatives are busy helping other customers. Please hold for the next available God representative. Thank you for your patience.
It think it is as if cockroaches were trying to communicate with us—in our rush to squash them, we wouldn’t even notice.
@ratboy, my bugs all hiss in your general direction for such a cruel comment.
maybe he just doesn’t give a shit.
For some reason those that believe in God automatically assume he’s/she’s/it’s awesome and loves everyone very very much.
But where’s the proof? maybe he’s just a jackass, there’s just enough evidence that he’s a total prick as there is for the contrary… never quite been able to figure that part out.
@ABoyNamedBoobs03 does disbelief have to equate to disrespect? i don’t mean disrespect for god, but for the beliefs of others?
@avalmez, there is plenty of disrespect going around, I don’t understand why people of a religious bent somehow believe they are exempt or beyond reproach or that their belief system cannot be ridiculed. ABoyNamedBoobs03 could just as easily disrespected homosexuals, New Age herbalists, vegetarians, or amputees, and none of those groups would be as likely to call foul as theists. Lots of people hate clowns and speak poorly of the people that portray clowns in their profession, yet you don’t hear the Clown Union up in arms that more people don’t love and respect clowns and that clowns are getting unfairly picked on. But now that I bring it up, I suppose there will be an organization formed called The Association for the Prevention of Clown Defamation.
Another person does not have to respect you, your religion, or anything else he sees as illogical. Whether that person is an atheist or not is irrelevant.
I saw this question, went past it a few times, hesitated, held my breath and finally went in expecting a lot of hate-comments. I must say that I’m quite pleasantly surprised by the answers here…
As for the original question, I believe God does. We just need to look out for the answers. They’re often something we don’t expect.
He does answer in His time. You just have to have faith in times when God knew NOT to answer.
I think usually there is an answer. But we don’t always get it exactly when or how we expect it.
@evelyns_pet_zebra respect is something all humans are due a priori. indiscriminate disrespect is loathsome and enables other more serious wrongs.
disrespect is something a person earns. how one decides to lose respect for another human being says much about one. and comments such as those offered above are offensive even to some that are not of a religious bent, but subscribe to the notion that you don’t have to get offensive to make a point.
For example: it’s almost as if titty boy woke up with a hard on and decided to use it to fence with God.
Tedious and sophomoric, wouldn’t you agree? And apologies for implying ABoyNamedBoobs03 in my example. nothing personal and not directed at you dude. just convenient and trying to make a point.
sigh
sometimes the answer is no.
@YARNLADY not clown anti-defamation league? else, to paraphrase, maybe the sourpuss defamation league (i’m all into defaming sourpuss’s..they deserve no respect :)?
God doesn’t answer Google questions
He answers on his schedule
@avalmez where in that was I disrespectful? it’s a legitimate possibility. If there is a god, why is it any more likely that he’s all loving than generally not a nice fellow?
you could show me a bad deed for every good deed I show you, for every right I could match it with a wrong. There’s equal reason for both possibilities, again, I ask, how is that disrespectful?
_“For example: it’s almost as if titty boy woke up with a hard on and decided to use it to fence with God.
Tedious and sophomoric, wouldn’t you agree?“_
My unwillingness to assume that if there is a higher power that it must be super duper and the best thing ever does not at all give me a hard on. Nor does being called Titty boy in some condescending manner. Nor does offering an alternate possibility and, just because it goes against yours opinion, being called tedious and sophomoric. so please, next time you have an issue, try discussing it like a civil human being.
@ABoyNamedBoobs03 – he was giving examples of tedious and sophomoric responses, not actually responding to you.
“And apologies for implying ABoyNamedBoobs03 in my example. nothing personal and not directed at you dude. just convenient and trying to make a point.”
The earth’s population today is an estimated 6.7692 billion. That’s a lot of callers on the party line.
My take on God believers, why would this God they believe in take a personal interest in who wins a football game, while allowing 20,000 people to starve to death. And which team has the strongest “pray-er?”
@YARNLADY . . .The team that wins, duh. God can’t be bothered with the prayers of the starving when the game is on.
There is always an answer. You just are not hearing it. Or you do not like it.
@YARNLADY just my opinion, of course, but both sides are getting what they want/focus on/give attention to. All the players on the team praying for a winning game, confidence, strength and endurance, win the title, etc., is creating a powerful energy force which will attract to them whatever it takes to win. The 20,000 starving people are focusing on what? Starving and how they can’t eat. This creates energy of getting more of nothing to eat. God gives us everything we want, it just doesn’t always appear the way we thought it would or should. The reason for that is because the result(s) we get is because of how we really FEEL about it deep down. You can think one way and feel another, but how you feel is what you’re going to get in reality.
So, when you’re looking for answers or asking for something, always be sure to say, “this or something better” that way it leaves the door wide open for the chance at getting something better than what you had in mind. I love that part! :-)
@maryleedy: And not very clear either, I’m sorry to say.
@maryleedy I don’t think God is giving the 20,000 starving people what they want.
As a physics student, it grates most awfully on my nerves when people use “energy” as the default stand-in for any kind of spiritual force that they feel ought to exist but that they do not understand, nor even have the conceptual clarity needed to define it.
^ agree. the term energy really needs to stay out of spiritualism in most of the regards they speak of it.
Ok, point taken. I apologize, you’re right.
Maryleedy – You made a good point. I think you worded it wrong. Don’t apologize.
We all have a right to an opinion and to free think on here.
That energy you talk about is “physics,” action reaction.
You build a dam up stream and what is down stream goes dry. And that dam you build is going to flood some other place. So a city can have electricity. Does not solve the problem of the few that have a drought or have to be moved to avoid drowning.
20,0000 people starving is a product of a million people eating. Not a solution or an approval for people to starve but just the way the cookie crumbles.
Sometimes the end does not justify the means. But, it still as an action reaction scenario.
@Jayne , As a Christian, I feel the same way :-)
@ChazMaz yeah, the word energy has many contexts including a very specific one where physics is concerned. but, i find the word energy in the bible as well as physics texts, and the bible had been around long before folks started thinking about energy in the very precise context that modern day physics does. so to speak of energy only in terms of K or E is a bit restrictive (i was going to use the word anal but opted against it owing to the sensitivities of others which is important)
a couple of days ago i was going to make the point that it’s probably as wrong for God believers to expect that God sits around waiting to be tasked with some great deed via the prayer of some godly person, as it is wrong to blame God for not having been so tasked or having had the good conscience to seize the initiative and solve some problem for mankind.
i realize that to some God believers the point above is equivalent to professing to atheism, but nonetheless, ultimately you make the same point as i make – in many, many cases, we don’t need to resort to God to solve our problems because we have the power to solve them ourselves; and, in as many other cases it’s wrong to blame God for what ails us when we are the cause of our own ailments.
so where does that leave God? that’s another question and one that i can’t answer fully. but perhaps that’s the purpose He has in mind for us.
and in which case you non-God believers are just being total slackers :)
@avalmez; I have no problem with energy being used to signify something outside of its meaning in physics; it’s just a word, after all. I just have a problem with it being used as a replacement for actual explanation, as a name for a phenomenon which may or may not exist, and if it does, operates by a mechanism entirely beyond the unsophisticated understanding of the speaker; in spiritual contexts, it almost always means “I have no idea how this works, and I have no evidence that it does, but I think it should because it makes a nice little theory, so I am going to call it energy so it sounds official and scientific”. Not to put too fine a point on it.
@Jayne i getcha, but, as you wrote, it’s a word. as i wrote, it’s a word that can be used in many contexts, limited perhaps only by the imagination.
and if i may, given your clarification, your distaste of its use “as a name for a phenomenon which may or may not exist, and if it does, operates by a mechanism entirely beyond the unsophisticated understanding of the speaker [emphasis added]” may be somewhat prejudicial – in a very literal and general sense – know what i mean?
avalmez- Finally a free thinker. :-)
So where does that leave God?
God is sitting in the living room watching TV waiting for the bell to ring so he can take the cake out of the oven. The cake batter after being mixed together put into the oven, no more intervention needed. The cake batter has all the materials needed to become a cake.
you know, i think a good case for God is: The universe exists, therefore a Creator exists. God is the Creator.
Same kind of logic as in: I think, therefore I am.
i am no philosopher and will stand silent to refutations by those of a philosophical bent.
@avalmez; it is prejudicial, against arguments and theories that hinge on concepts that are so ill-defined as to be meaningless. I think most people who claim any respect for logic would be prejudiced against that. I don’t care what the argument is, and I don’t care what name the person gives the concept, and I also don’t claim it is exclusive to spirituality; it is a very human urge to fill in gaps with vagaries with the hopes that the audience won’t notice or that they can be filled in later. The problem just happens to be endemic to spirituality and the term “energy”.
THAT, is a solid. Opinion.
@jayne agreed, the very definition of prejudice. lurve to you person!
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