let me get this straight if I get blessings because I was living right that’s god’s favor if I get shit because I was bad that’s god’s obligation if I get shit but I was living right, that’s god’s
Ahhh this. This is spot on. The idea of crediting God for everything good that happens to us, but saying it's also God testing us or punishing is when bad things happen, is just absurd. So is he good or evil? It can't be both! I'm more of the view that none of the things that happen to us in our lives are actually God's doing at all. My pastor just preached about God testing us this week and I was squirming in the pew the whole time. Phew.
A belief about God I don't have anymore? SO MANY. One shift I thought of (last night, after someone left a really thoughtful comment on one of my posts) was the shift from theistic personal God to deistic, hopefully-you-exist-but-I-don't-know-if-we-talk-ever. D.L.'s post was sooo moving, and the underlying feeling of sort of... emotional abandonment? feels true.
Ahhh this. This is spot on. The idea of crediting God for everything good that happens to us, but saying it's also God testing us or punishing is when bad things happen, is just absurd. So is he good or evil? It can't be both! I'm more of the view that none of the things that happen to us in our lives are actually God's doing at all. My pastor just preached about God testing us this week and I was squirming in the pew the whole time. Phew.
A belief about God I don't have anymore? SO MANY. One shift I thought of (last night, after someone left a really thoughtful comment on one of my posts) was the shift from theistic personal God to deistic, hopefully-you-exist-but-I-don't-know-if-we-talk-ever. D.L.'s post was sooo moving, and the underlying feeling of sort of... emotional abandonment? feels true.