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Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by philfearon(m): 1:35pm On Jun 06, 2021 |
I have often come across people making references like "if not because of God...", they will grant another persons request or favour. In some other instances, God is used to beg people to do something they're supposed to do ordinarily. This has got me wondering. Is it that people are inherently bad or just looking for an excuse to show that part of them once "God" is not part of the equation anymore? A lot of people can't do anything for you without reference to God 'enabling' or 'allowing' them to do it. Everything they do is for the sake of God. This leads me to ask, is the fact that God is in your life the reason why you are being good? https://uptownerd.com/2021/06/06/are-you-a-good-person-only-because-you-feel-like-god-is-watching-everything-we-do/ 1 Like
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Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by Kobojunkie: 3:14pm On Jun 06, 2021 |
philfearon:Is choosing to do God in obedience to God not what God called us to doing? Aren't we told that our human kind of goodness is filthy rags where God is concerned so it doesn't seem to matter whether we are "good" by nature as what matters more seems to be that we are good because of God. 1 Like |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by philfearon(m): 4:00pm On Jun 10, 2021 |
Kobojunkie: God didn't call anyone to do Good. Where did he make the call? Secondly, which God? |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by Kobojunkie: 4:38pm On Jun 10, 2021 |
philfearon:Good === Righteousness, the keys to Heaven itself - Matthew 24 vs 31-46. The one and only God as written of in the book called the Bible. |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by philfearon(m): 4:41pm On Jun 10, 2021 |
Kobojunkie: There are many Gods mentioned in the Bible. Which of them are you referring to? |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by Kobojunkie: 4:44pm On Jun 10, 2021 |
philfearon:In book is focused on just the one God. If you dont know which, then maybe you should have specified this from your OP. 1 Like |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by philfearon(m): 4:50pm On Jun 10, 2021 |
Kobojunkie: The God used in the OP is generic. The one you are referring to is specific to 1 particular religion. |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by Kobojunkie: 4:52pm On Jun 10, 2021 |
philfearon:Ok, my mistake then! |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by philfearon(m): 6:18am On Jun 13, 2021 |
Kobojunkie:So, answer? |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by Dtruthspeaker: 8:23am On Jun 13, 2021 |
philfearon: Yes, they are inherently bad. Why? Because they now KNOW EVIL and can decide to do it. And do people love doing evil? Yes, they do. You see it all around you and you often hear them confess their love for the sweetness of doing evil. "Ah e go sweet to fuq that man wife, you too dey happy make I ..." philfearon: Without God, Good can not be done exactly as without Microsoft Word, you would not be able to type on your laptop. Also, without God, we would be dead as a phone and car without its battery. "Cut off from me, ye shall do nothing". This is the First Level of Answer. Second Answer, is A child behaves as his Father, so if your father is Good, the Child shall be Good but if thy father is Cain, such children must be evil. 1 Like |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by philfearon(m): 1:20pm On Jun 13, 2021 |
Dtruthspeaker: How did you know then that the God you are referring to is the source of your goodness? |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by budaatum: 2:50pm On Jun 13, 2021 |
I try to do good because I have found that doing good profits me more than doing the ungood. Take insulting people on here. Whenever I insult anyone I feel like I am burning in hell. A voice in my head says, "buda, surely you could have responded a lot more intelligently than that". So I start to hate myself for not being intelligent, and then I hate how unintelligent I feel, so gradually, I am teaching myself not to insult anyone so that I never feel bad. Besides, it is so much more satisfying to turn the other cheek to those who insult me and who might supposedly deserve to be insulted back because, first, its just a cyber slap that neither hurts my body nor my soul; and second, like a real slapper, their cyber hand gets tired before they hit the seven times seventieth slap especially if I caress their cheek with my soft intellectual hands, and nothing is more satisfying and enjoyable than defeating hatred with love is what I have found. If I do bad, like say I steal for instance, I would have to look over my shoulder to ensure I am not caught, and while looking over my shoulder I would not see where I am going and would likely walk into a pole or fall into a ditch, and how silly of me that would indeed be. If I steal I would have to tell lies too, and then would I also have to keep track of the lies I've told to whom, which all takes up a lot of brain power and my time, which eventually becomes stress as I'm constantly looking over my shoulder instead of where I am going, and have to remind myself which lie I might have told to whom in case I mix up lies and get found out to be a liar, and in the process and all along, I would have ignorantly been stealing from myself because all the brain resource being used to maintain a lie could have been used to advance my own self and make myself a better human being, but I stupidly would have been stealing that brain resource from myself and wasted it on lying because I stole! How much more stupid than that could I possibly be! Why not just not steal nor lie and instead use all that resource to work for what I want? I'd sure delight in the rewards of expending the sweat of my brow, with my integrity intact to boot! Na, its not some God that stops me doing bad. Its the brain that God put in my head and gave me the strenght to develop that makes me try very very hard to only do that which is good and to reap the profit in so doing. Its like a person who sows corn reaps corn and a person who sows cocoa reaps cocoa, a person who sows the ungood reaps the ungood that they sow, and so buda sows good so buda reaps a peaceful mind. Do note! buda is a work in progress. 1 Like
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Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by Dtruthspeaker: 5:13pm On Jun 13, 2021 |
philfearon: Simple! When we were born into this world, what conduct and action did we meet and see was acceptable, world over, which if we comply with, we did not get into troubles and problems? Ans= The Doing of Good Things and Good Deed. So Who made it so that world over, All men are compelled to openly do Good Deeds (while they sneak in hiding to do bad deeds hoping that they are not discovered)? Is there A Law Commanding and Compelling the Doing of Good Deeds? And this is where the Bible Answers both Questions for 1) it Shows The Law of Laws Commanding the Doing of Good and 2) it disclosed The Who, Who Issued and gave forth such Law, Backing it up with World Wide Powerful Power and telling us He Who Did that, is called God! It's as simple as that! |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by BassReeves: 6:51pm On Jun 13, 2021 |
philfearon:It becomes easier to understand when you get to know that the word God/god, is a placement word for Influencer/influencer, either which means, that, which has power and capacity to have an effect on the character, development, behaviour, treatment etc of someone or something philfearon:Ecclesiastes 9:3 'This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.' We all act out according to our nature philfearon:Genesis 1:26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness . They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth. Even thought it ought to go without saying it, but you just right there, hit the nail right bang on its head. Man (i.e.human beings) was created in the image of the Godhood, so philfearon, in effect, human beings are a visible and physical representation of the impression of the Godhood. Watch this philfearon, you see, the likeness, in Genesis 1:26 above, is continuum. Why is it continuum? It is continuum because Man, out of the box, WAS NOT made perfect, like God is. In fact, Man, was created and set on a journey to perfection. Man, is an innovation of the Godhood. Genesis 1:26, as regards to the God intent, tells everything, we need to know. God looked at everything. Looked at all His creation and saw that the stage is set, so therefore declared, very good. He declared that we're good to go, we're ready for action. Let the action begin! Let's see Man faithfully reflect or give a true picture of the Godhood. Let see Man demonstrate goodness, be good just as God only is Good Trust me, if you manage to locate, a good vantage point, you quite easily could see the whole matter this way |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by BassReeves: 6:51pm On Jun 13, 2021 |
Dtruthspeaker: philfearon:Psalm 34:8 'Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.' Psalm 107:1 'Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!' Psalm 34:8 'They sang [responsively], praising and giving thanks to the LORD, saying, “For He is good, for His lovingkindness (mercy) toward Israel endures forever.” And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.' Exodus 34:6 '[i]And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,[/I]' Have you ever come across MS Excel creating a MS Word document? James 1:16-17, says: Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of lights [the Creator and Sustainer of the heavens], in whom there is no variation [no rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [for He is perfect and never changes]. |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by philfearon(m): 4:40am On Jun 14, 2021 |
Dtruthspeaker: But, no one is compelled to do good anywhere. People are expected to obey the law of the land for easy interactions with the rest of the society. What is good in Country A may not be good for Country B. What is good for me may not be good for you. That notwithstanding, how did you know that the God you are talking about is the Source of your goodness? |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by philfearon(m): 4:46am On Jun 14, 2021 |
budaatum: This is a wonderful explanation bro. I like the fact that you could tabulate the "doing good" process and the struggles you surmount in doing them. It shows you are the one who is making the effort to be good while reminding yourself that you could easily fall back astray if you don't make an effort to keep yourself in check. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by Dtruthspeaker: 9:39am On Jun 14, 2021 |
philfearon: Oh they are compelled and you said their words Confessing Compulsion "if not because of God...", And you have heard it so many times in your life. And also You Saw the ones who did not say anything and how they did not wish to do their duty of giving you your right of good, but it was as if Someone "forced" them. And on that day you confessed the Truth that you saw that so so so person did not want to answer you but as you people always say so that you do not See God's Hand and Work you wrongfully say "it was as if "Something" Forced her/him to give me or to Answer". That "Something" you people always say is Someone, God Himself! But you people love not to see God and there is nothing I can do about that. philfearon: And Whose Laws do you think they are obeying? If you say Constitution and All you will be wrong for all man made laws had a time and day they were made eg American Constitution is only 233 years old and it is one of the oldest laws you had in mind today, and People where already Obeying The Law before they manufactured their Fraud laws and constitution, So your point falls! philfearon: Under God's Laws what is Good in Country A is Good Everywhere eg Stealing, murdering, cheating, lying, there is no country in the world which says any of these things are good and acceptable in their regional philfearon: You asked this the first time and I have answered you and you just now responded by attempting to deny what you have Seen and Experienced (as is your right, nothing I can do about that) and tried to rely on the Lie that people do good because of man made laws, to which I have shown you that people where Obeying The True Law before they decided to make their own false laws. So repeating your question has no validity and weight. |
Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by budaatum: 10:46am On Jun 14, 2021 |
philfearon:O but for the Grace of God go I. I'm glad you understood it.
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Re: Are You A Good Person Only Because You Feel Like God Is Watching Everything? by budaatum: 2:27pm On Jun 17, 2023 |
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