doctor saves woman from breast cancer, woman thanks god.. :facepalm: makes no sense to me either, people use religion as an escape and its annoying.

Qwel wrote doctor saves woman from breast cancer, woman thanks god.. :facepalm: makes no sense to me either, people use religion as an escape and its annoying.

like I get that maybe while going through treatment she may want to believe in a higher power to have some sort of faith but don't forget all those doctors.

I use religion because God created the universe, and he created each and everyone of us. Meaning he gave me/they the skills we have. Don't like it? Ignore it. Why do we say ''Thank god!'' when something good happens and say ''God dammit'' when something bad happens?

Aqxa wrote I use religion because God created the universe, and he created each and everyone of us. Meaning he gave me/they the skills we have. Don't like it? Ignore it. Why do we say ''Thank god!'' when something good happens and say ''God dammit'' when something bad happens?

His point is that people should not say, 'Thank God' when something good happens.
Saying, 'God dammit' when something bad happens makes sense in a flippant way, you're asking God to damn something because you don't think it should have happened.

If all events are set in motion by God and it's all part of his divine plan then surely Christians would want to thank God even when bad things happen.
You're essentially proposing that all good things must be attributable to God, not individual people, and all bad things must be due to the will of something else, like Satan.

However, God is admittedly 'The Alpha and the Omega', he created everything and everything works to his end goal.
He knows everything that has happened and will happen, including the bad things.
He set the Universe in motion knowing that the world would be a cesspool of pain and suffering.
Satan might be influencing all the bad things in the world now but God chose to create Satan knowing that he would eventually rebel.
God created the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil with the knowledge that Adam and Eve would be coerced into eating from it.

If you deny this you're saying one of three things.
1) God didn't have the choice to create Satan, in which case he isn't omnipotent.
2) He did have the choice but didn't know what was going to happen, in which case he isn't omniscient.

If God isn't omnipotent or omniscient then he isn't worth worshipping and - by implication of semantics - he isn't God.

The third option is that God knew that the world would be filled with suffering but allowed it because the faithful will be rewarded after death.
In which case, Christians should look at all the suffering in the world, put their palms together, close their eyes and whisper, 'Thank God.'

Qwel wrote doctor saves woman from breast cancer, woman thanks god.. :facepalm: makes no sense to me either, people use religion as an escape and its annoying.

I had a heart transplant and i thank god everyday for helping me get though that situation i also thank the doctors for helping me get though that situation how does that not make sense?

People thank God for good things that happen to them because we believe without Him it wouldn't have happened. If you believe in Him then He's your inspiration/ what keeps you going through rough times so when you finally get to your goal and are happy about what happened then you thank Him. It's obvious you won't understand because you don't believe in Him like we do. Like how you mentioned Russell Wilson, he thanks God because he believes God helped him through everything to get him to where he is today.

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Qwel wrote doctor saves woman from breast cancer, woman thanks god.. :facepalm: makes no sense to me either, people use religion as an escape and its annoying.

like I get that maybe while going through treatment she may want to believe in a higher power to have some sort of faith but don't forget all those doctors.

yeah but if you ever tell the women is was the doctor not god she would be like oh lawdy thankyou for blessing this man with your healing hands

so she would always turn to god

How would they truly know God has forgiven them?

I think he just used it as an excuse because he felt guilty and wanted remorse.