Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Re. this recent brouhaha in Congress, the fight over an attempt to amend the US Constitution in order to forbid nontraditional marriage...I notice that major opposition to nontraditional marriage comes from people of conscience who hope to be God’s hands punishing those whom they believe have disobeyed God’s rules.
I’d like to point out something to this group of "God's punishers"; the only person I ever knew to be hit by the proverbial bolt from the blue was a kid at Scout Camp running across a field in a thunder storm. To punish people on God’s behalf is presumptuous, absurd, and short-sighted. God clearly is not busting anybody and He could if He wanted to. I've read the Bible, many times. I know all about those passages where God opened up the earth to swallow someone, rained fire on others, sent a great flood to eliminate others.
Is God doing those maneuvers nowadays? Apparently not because most of the world is doing wrong with both hands and nobody's getting zapped. Shouldn't some righteous soul rise up and scourge the rest of the planet back onto it's knees before God? No. God can handle any scourging that He feels should happen. My God is not an action figure that needs me to pick Him up and make Him do His moves. I have no sense that poor little God relies on me to punish all the wrong doers who disrespect Him daily in word, thought, and deed. Here's the bottom line; each of us has only so long here on this planet. My time may be brief and I haven’t enough energy to do all the good I know to do. I don’t need to waste any of my remaining time on Earth bashing people on what I imagine to be God’s behalf. Suggestion; anyone who’d like to punish a sinner should start with himself and see if it does any good.
I’d like to point out something to this group of "God's punishers"; the only person I ever knew to be hit by the proverbial bolt from the blue was a kid at Scout Camp running across a field in a thunder storm. To punish people on God’s behalf is presumptuous, absurd, and short-sighted. God clearly is not busting anybody and He could if He wanted to. I've read the Bible, many times. I know all about those passages where God opened up the earth to swallow someone, rained fire on others, sent a great flood to eliminate others.
Is God doing those maneuvers nowadays? Apparently not because most of the world is doing wrong with both hands and nobody's getting zapped. Shouldn't some righteous soul rise up and scourge the rest of the planet back onto it's knees before God? No. God can handle any scourging that He feels should happen. My God is not an action figure that needs me to pick Him up and make Him do His moves. I have no sense that poor little God relies on me to punish all the wrong doers who disrespect Him daily in word, thought, and deed. Here's the bottom line; each of us has only so long here on this planet. My time may be brief and I haven’t enough energy to do all the good I know to do. I don’t need to waste any of my remaining time on Earth bashing people on what I imagine to be God’s behalf. Suggestion; anyone who’d like to punish a sinner should start with himself and see if it does any good.
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