Recker's World
Reason 29
God needs humans to do everything for him… including his killing
In most cases in the bible we can see God ordering people to be killed rather than doing his own dirty work. And even when it comes to Hell he’s not going to throw us into Hell himself. He’s going to get his angels to do it:
Matthew 13:40-42: "Just as the weeds are separated out and burned, so it will be at the end of the world. I, the Son of Man, will send my angels, and they will remove from my Kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil, and they will throw them into the furnace and burn them. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
But lets move away from the killing and look at how God shows his love to mankind.
One day my parents made an amazing announcement. They were adopting a child. A boy named Alberto from Guatemala! I told my friends about it too, thinking how great it would be that I would have an adopted younger brother. A few days later I found out that Mum and Dad weren’t actually adopting him but had simply decided to sponsor a child through World Vision.
Despite it not being a real adoption, I had all these ideas that maybe one day we’d be able to afford to have Alberto come and visit us and I’d show him around and let him see a wonderful country instead of the horrible one he lived in. My parents even went along with that possibility. I’m not sure exactly what they thought they were doing by donating this money each month to World Vision, but I can’t help but wonder whether they thought it was more than just supplying him with food, shelter, clothes and education.
I also did some child sponsorships after I entered the workforce and currently donate money regularly to a Ugandan orphanage. I don’t know what ever became of Alberto once he reached adulthood, but I occasionally think about him and people like him and wonder why, if God is real, does he pass the buck onto us? He’s the one who put them in the desperate situations they are in. It’s fine for the onus to be on us if there is no god, but if there is, it’s very suspicious. Perhaps the reality is there is no God, which is why it’s humans that have to answer each other’s prayers.
I elaborate more on God passing the buck here:
Reason 28: The strength/popularity of a church was always dependent on the charisma of the pastor
Reason 30: New conversions return back to being sinners almost immediately