God is LOVE and PERFECT and TRIUNE and a RIGHTEOUS JUDGE. That would make Him many faceted. What you seem to be missing is that I agree with you; however, I also disagree with you. I agree in that your childhood sounds like it stank. Your parents were creeps, should never have married, should never have had sex, and should never have had children. I disagree with you in that I do not think that allowing homosexuals to marry and adopt children is going to make for a country of better parents. I believe it is going to set the stage for even more abuse and more creepy parents. God DID help Job. God caused Job to understand that bad things can happen to godly people. Job lived in a culture that believed that only evil people had troubles. If something bad happened, it meant that God was inflicting punishment for being bad. God showed Job that this is not always the case. Man lives in a sinful world and will die as a result of sin all around. But that doesn't mean the that individual sinned or did something God was punishing. This is what Job learned in the end. The righteous will someday be rewarded but the road is often ruff. That is just how life in this fallen world is. Satan is still the one who runs this world; however, he has already been defeated by Jesus Christ, and his days are numbered ---- but the road is ruff. And bad things can & still do happen to God's children while they live in it.
Actually, my mother was a saint. It was my father (and subsequent stepfathers) that were the problem until my mother died and I became an orphan at 8.
Are you saying that my parents should never have had sex? You DO realize that I would have never been born if that happened, right? And................why would you wish non existence on someone you don't even know? Especially when they (i.e. me) spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy defending your right to free speech?
And yeah..........................there are many kids who are orphans in this country (as well as the rest of the world) who are tired of living in group homes and their fondest wish is to feel what it's like to be part of a family. Why would you deny them that chance, even if it is with a same sex couple? Like I've said, I lived with a lesbian couple for 2 years, and their daughter was well adjusted and a pretty decent student. Do you really think that orphans should live in group homes for their entire childhood? Where is the possibility of them getting personal attention? Trust me.................I know, because I've been there before, and even if you live with a gay couple, it's much better than a group home.
And no..........................God DIDN'T help Job while he was going through his trials, although He did reward him after he'd finished.
Might wanna re-read the story of Job again. And oh yeah..................while you're at it, might wanna re-check your humanity to see if you can find a shred of compassion in that sullied rag you call a soul.
Yes! You mother married the wrong sort of men. That makes her less than perfect. The selection was up to her. Not all guys beat their wives or children. The fact is that you are here, and so if you do accept Christ as your personal Savior, then that would be a very good thing to come out of a bad situation. However, if you die and go to a Christless eternity, then I would have to say that it would have been far -- far better had you had never been born. And yes, God kept Job alive through his ordeal. And you are shortsighted and need to reread the story without looking to prove your own point, but rather with the mind of the Lord.
Sorry, but I feel that children ideally need a mother and a father and not second best so that some "couples" might feel good and complete about
themselves. Most children are adopted. The situation is such that unless the "child" is nearly an adult or a foster child, that individual will likely be adopted.
Actually, my mother married the type of men that she thought were suitable for her. Was she "less than perfect"? Probably, but that is what makes free will such a great thing, because after those men had messed up her family, she divorced them. Too bad she had to leave me when I was 8, but I've gotten over that. Not only does free will allow you to choose the wrong thing, but it also allows you to learn from wrong choices (and trust me, in a lot of ways, the choices got better before she died), but it also allowed her to make the right choices for not only her, but myself and my half sister as well.
As far as me "accepting Christ as my personal Savior"? Nope................I don't buy into it.
However............................because there has been PROVEN to be a genetic Adam and a genetic Eve (watch NatGeo's program "The Human Family Tree" sometime), I do believe that Jesus came to earth and joined the family of man. Now....................in my personal belief, that means that Jesus is a part of the family of man, and since there is a genetic Adam and a genetic Eve, Jesus is part of my family. Since He was born over 2,000 years ago, that means He's higher up on the hierarchy than I am, and also because that I believe that HaShem (God) is my Father, and Gaia (Earth) is my mother, that would make Jesus my big brother.
He's also the big brother of anyone that wants to claim it, and many try, I just wish they would act like it.
Does believing like that make you still think it would have been better if I'd never been born? If so, who told you that, God?
God is about Creation and new ideas, not the same old stuffy belief systems that many seem to hold so dogmatically to.
And..................to tell you the truth.......................I would have rather had a stable family (even if it was with a same sex couple) that I could have grown roots with, rather than the nomadic life that I experienced as an adopted child, an orphan, and a foster child who eventually ran away to live the last year of high school with their Grandparents.
Don't get me wrong..................my Grandparents (and I ALWAYS capitalize their names) taught me the most about right and wrong. I'm grateful they opened their home to myself and my half sister at various times throughout our lives.