Tough Questions for Christians #34—Reinforcing False Beliefs
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AZ gives an example of a Muslim couple who prays for a child from Allah and then gets pregnant. He says, why does the Christian God reinforce a belief in a false god?
Well, first of all, I don’t think that Allah is a different God than YHWH, but let’s suppose it’s a Hindu couple who are praying to Shiva or something. Whatever.
The basic answer is this: God loves humanity. All humans. And God grants blessings to all humans, without exception. Certainly some humans are blessed more than others, and some humans endure terrible suffering (almost always at the hand of other humans), but all humans are granted blessings by God.
God grants blessings because He wants to teach all humans how to love. This is what Jesus came to teach us as well, and Jesus is certainly the better, more direct teacher. However, in praying to Allah (or Shiva) for a baby, and God granting this, shows us how to love. It shows us how to offer the blessing of life to others, all others, without exception.
And this should teach Christians especially. If God gives the gift of life and health and joy to many behind the false disguise of Shiva, then perhaps we should be less concerned about how we love and focus on the task of loving. In other words, perhaps God is teaching US that we should love, and be less concerned about pushing Jesus down people’s throats. That maybe we should love and show how to love and then some—few, but some—will take this example and follow Jesus in action. It is important for others to know that we love them because Jesus loved us, but why should we only love if they love Jesus as we love Him? That is not the love of God, but the restrictive human love.
Love that judges isn’t love at all.
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