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@waynestewart1163 20 күн бұрын
Sounds like a nice hook for a book
@MedicalBlunt 21 күн бұрын
Thank you ❤
@DarthPoyner 21 күн бұрын
The religions are different because God didn't tell them all the same thing? Sorry sir, you are wrong. There is one way to God and that is through his son Jesus Christ.
@1sgr1999 Жыл бұрын
You made absolutely no sense
@JerryLMartin Жыл бұрын
Maybe you did not try hard enough to take it in. It does make sense, even if violates your particular worldview. Be well!
@ChetYoubetchya-it5zv Жыл бұрын
Why does God hide? Because he can, and probably has a good reason for doing so cause God is always working and works in mysterious ways
@JerryLMartin Жыл бұрын
Bit the question is, why does God work only in mysterious ways -- if God wants us to respond? The answer is, I believe, that God is provoking a transformation in us. To "hear" God, we need to turn our souls 180 degrees Godward and allow other things to distract us.
@sgartistry1418 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video, I really appreciate your thoughts. You were very clear and very concise on your points and you gave me some new things to think about that I hadn’t yet considered. You made some equivocation errors towards the beginning which were a large part of the basis for your reasons. I still remain unconvinced but, again, many thanks for the video.
@JerryLMartin Жыл бұрын
I wish you had explained the "errors." I am an old logic professor and I usually do not make logical mistakes, which equivocation would certainly be. You don't need to be convinced -- the crucial thing is to be able to listen in an open-minded, if critical, way,
@Yrinedjcapulong54 3 жыл бұрын
Yes and amen
@JerryLMartin Жыл бұрын
Thank you and bless you!
@ristoaksila5677 3 жыл бұрын
Yes this male voice comes all of a sudden from behind and right. An Aussie accent. Said "go to civic". Once in civic ( a 20 min. bus ride) he said "go to the city centre". Once there I stopped at the sliding doors. He said "keep going, keep going ". I came up to an entrance, ramp going up to the next level. A pram racing down the ramp. Jewish looking man running after it. I stopped the pram. A 2-3 second leeway. What perfect timing. Was this God, an angel, a dead grandfather or what?
@JerryLMartin Жыл бұрын
Since this didn't really happen, there is no correct answer to your question at the end. In real life -- certainly in my experience-- the character encountered spoke to me and told me who it was.
@ristoaksila5677 Жыл бұрын
@@JerryLMartin what do you mean by saying "that this didn't really happen? Were you there as a witness?
@newmercies1 3 жыл бұрын
I hear his quiet voice when I speak a question out-loud! I then sit quiet and listen not with the expectation of always hearing something, not trying to make up an answer with my mind! Just quiet mind waiting! If a thought jumps in my head especially when it comes from the inside of me, then I know it is from God! The less it makes sense the more I trust it! Often times I hear a voice saying one word a split second before I wake up from a dream! I know it is God! His voice is calm but firm!
@JerryLMartin 3 жыл бұрын
Just sitting quietly and waiting is a very good approach. I usually ask a question and wait to see what comes to me. I can usually tell if it is a message from God or just me talking.
@ristoaksila5677 3 жыл бұрын
Yes calm but firm. Being Aussie the audible voice was in an Aussie accent.
@robertretzlaff985 3 жыл бұрын
Jesus' voice isn't deep or soft it's flawless and I'll never forget it. He spoke to me once in his voice then the others was like in my thoughts. I seen him once I was in the hospital I was staring at the light it was Brite, he walked up to a ledge but it looked like clouds. His hair was brown not real long one length maybe to the bottom of his neck parted to each side and a short brown beard he wasn't wearing a crown. I think it has to do with the same reason he rode a donkey to Jerusalem and not a stead. He had on a white robe with a brown rope tie around his waist and sandals.
@JerryLMartin 3 жыл бұрын
Jesus can come to us anywhere and in any garb. You have to pay close attention and exercise spiritual discernment to tell if it is really Jesus, or really God.
@Banjomute 3 жыл бұрын
That's like saying what a great personality someone in a coma has. Pleasant video but not convincing.
@JerryLMartin Жыл бұрын
I don't see that it is like a person in a coma at all. You might do well to take my experience seriously enough to see what it might mean for you.
@theresaevans4537 3 жыл бұрын
God talks to me on the bus
@JerryLMartin 3 жыл бұрын
God can talk to us anywhere.
@KneelBeforeTheLord 3 жыл бұрын
~^^
@midwestairway 3 жыл бұрын
its a bit silly and sad that the divine being and creator of the world would play mind games with his creation, i see misery, rape, murder, war, greed, the emptiness of space, the chaos and randomness in the universe . the number of religions in the world is too many, god really did a great job in making it very difficult to believe in him or anything. i will just do good and not hurt others, and when i die if there is a god ill tell him "listen man, i did my best for others and myself, i tried to be a good person, if you have an ego problem, you need to seek therapy" the real question is, why does god need/wants us to worship him
@JerryLMartin 3 жыл бұрын
The answers to your questions are complex and are addressed in the God book. In brief, God is evolving and limited in power. However, God is moving the world forward and we can move to a higher spiritual level by connecting with God.
@terrencesimpson6079 4 жыл бұрын
Pleassssse
@brendaberry5797 4 жыл бұрын
Ya I see him in slaughterhouse he really does love his animal kingdom and his little starving children and those poor children being sexually abused
@MrJasonworkman 4 жыл бұрын
Oh God answers your prayers and speaks to you. You sound like a really credible person
@sensereference2227 4 жыл бұрын
OK, let us look at nature. What do we see? Rampant predation and suffering. Animals driven by hunger pains ripping apart other animals for sustenance. Parasites. Diseases. Natural disasters. Carnage and brutality between sentient organisms across the globe stretching back millions of years. And the worst part is that this natural suffering is not even the product of human choices but is built into the design of nature itself. The evidential argument from natural evil is actually one of the strongest arguments against the existence of G-d, so it is strange that anyone seeking out the divine would be told to look at nature.
@JerryLMartin 4 жыл бұрын
You raise a profound question. You are right that suffering is built into the design of nature, into the structure of reality itself. If we and animals were not sentient, we would not suffer. If you read God: An Autobiography, you will find this issue often discussed and there is no simple answer. In my dialogues with God, God does not deny the reality of suffering, but says that "suffering is as bad as those who reject God because of it say it is." But part of the story is that, for there to be a world at all, it has to be material -- otherwise it would not be real. And, if it is material, it is imperfect and subject to decay and malfunction. And, if it is to be rich in potential, beings have to be sentient and aware -- able to take in suffering as well as beauty, to experience evil as well as to do good. God is right there with us in the joy and in the pain. But the world is also the matrix of possibility -- it is the theater that makes possible, not only suffering, but everything noble and beautiful and good. And God is manifest in that tough but lovely reality.
@sensereference2227 4 жыл бұрын
@@JerryLMartin Thank you for the reply. I'm not sure I agree that, for a world to be real, it must be comprised of matter (that is subject to decay and malfunction) as a matter of necessity. If heaven (or any purely spiritual realm) exists then it is surely real and not comprised of flawed, decaying matter. So, I don't see why decaying matter is a necessary condition for the existence of a real world. Also, if G-d exists and has free will, then I don't see why evil is a necessary condition for the possibility of doing good or appreciating beauty. After all, doesn't G-d only do good? The real difficult question here is this: To what extent is the suffering we see in the world simply the result of G-d's creative choice and not the result of necessity? As Alfred Tennyson famously put in the poem "In Memoriam": Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation’s final law- Tho’ Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shriek’d against his creed.
@JerryLMartin 4 жыл бұрын
@@sensereference2227 The paradoxes you generate are based on theological assumptions that, in my dialogues with God, are rejected. You would really have to read God: An Autobiography to see the context and rationale. A great poem at the end, however, a beautiful expression of the issue you are raising! Bless you!
@JerryLMartin 4 жыл бұрын
Btw, if you do read the book, contact me at www.godanautobiography.com. I hold a monthly online discussion group and you would be welcome to drop in and see if you find it of interest.
@sensereference2227 4 жыл бұрын
@@JerryLMartin I think I will pick up the book, read it through, and then try to join the discussion if I have any further questions after that. I appreciate that you took the time to reply to me. Thanks.
@rogerkreil3314 4 жыл бұрын
My mother is a fundamentalist Christian who believes that I am going to Hell because I am not following Jesus. She is okay with God not healing me, my Dad, or other people. She isn’t bothered that Christians cannot go around commanding things to happen and doing miracles. Her god is evil because he only wants to save the people who believe without seeing and are willing to endure until the end. A truly benevolent god would grant his true followers power so that they could do miracles and get at least two thirds of humanity saved. But her god just wants to torture most people forever. That is not what is best for them. They were better off not existing. Thankfully, the universe appears to be completely natural. So no one might get tortured by this monster! 😀
@JerryLMartin 4 жыл бұрын
You have set up a pair of false opposites: either there is this unloving God implied by your mother's beliefs -- where the key to understanding the divine is Hell -- or there is no God at all. Read God: An Autobiography and you will find a God who is in-between.
@tavarciare 4 жыл бұрын
Well if he existed then we'd know
@fyro8514 3 жыл бұрын
Theres no if, hes does Exist
@midnightdragondraven7569 5 жыл бұрын
I wish god talk to me
@JerryLMartin 3 жыл бұрын
One good approach is to write a brief letter -- just a paragraph or less will do, telling God honestly how it is with you or asking a question if you have one. Then just wait and whatever words come to your mind, write them down. They might just be your own words, but they may have divine input. If you do this frequently, and pay close attention, you will development the ability to tell the divine voice from your own thoughts.
@johnfonda2972 5 жыл бұрын
1 Kings 19:11 - 13. God was not in the great wind, the earthquake or the fire. God was in the gentle whisper
@spiritmy 6 жыл бұрын
It look like, GOD and Devil does not exit ? I cannot feel or see sign of their present?
@alchemist786 6 жыл бұрын
To really see God, use his tool of expression in Nature, the Magic Mushroom. 5 grams and in your quest for God, you’ll find only yourself.
@spiritmy 6 жыл бұрын
Why God not talk to everyone?, so that we may worshiped him, just appear to every one, because is so great, but say all type of reasons, why make people so difficult for the human being to belief him, this make the world worshiping so many type of religions and create war. Just come up in the sky , any where he suitable place. Just common sense. It look something is not right.
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
This is a very good question. It is also a complex question. It is explored in God: An Autobiography. The short answer is that God does manifest Himself. You have to learn to notice the divine signals. Relating to God is transformative. It changes your soul. Typing out divine messages in the sky wouldn't achieve that. For the whole story, read the book. Bless you!
@Pilottoad2 6 жыл бұрын
Think you got dementia mate
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
I don't think you are in a position to make a judgment on my mental state. However, your comment does raise an important issue. How am I to know I am of sound mind? I asked that question after hearing the voice, but it seemed obvious that, in all the usual ways (a successful career, a happy marriage, a capacity for evaluating ideas and making reasonable decisions), I was completely sound. Moreover, while there are false positives in connecting with God, there are also outstanding examples, even outside the Bible, of people like Socrates and George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, who have heard voices. There are more ordinary cases as well, some of which are documented by two psychologists, in a book called Quantum Change, of people hearing a voice saying something like "you don't need to drink any more" or "you've got to leave that man" that turned their lives around for the better. In short, you might consider the possibility that I do not have dementia and that my experiences, whatever you make of them, are those of an ordinary reasonable guy.
@ristoaksila5677 3 жыл бұрын
@@JerryLMartin non believers always say it's a mental condition. Are they all qualified psychologists or just ignorant? Perhaps they are the eternally lost.
@ristoaksila5677 3 жыл бұрын
Then I must have dementia too. You are a true knobhead!
@stephanieleach2767 6 жыл бұрын
I wonder if a psychopath or sociopath can hear God's voice.
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
I doubt if they can REALLY hear God's voice, though they might think they do. They also suffer from paranoid delusions and so forth. It does not follow from those phenomena that nobody hears from God any more than it follows that nobody has any enemies. If is okay to be skeptical, up to a point, but if you make skepticism a dogmatic position, then you risk closing your mind to some important aspects of reality.
@erod76 6 жыл бұрын
You know who else hides from us...The Easter bunny ,Santa claus , toothfairy, bigfoot, aliens, hmmm, i think i know where this is going😒😒😒
@debbiegivich7620 6 жыл бұрын
It's all in scriputre and testing the spirits. Yahuah/ Yahusha baruk you
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
Yes, testing the spirits is essential. This is the problem of spiritual discernment, and there is a literature on it. I write about it early in God: An Autobiography.
@tedweii 6 жыл бұрын
dear brother, I can totally understand your feeling, I was once asking GOD like that, but after that GOD gives me thisJesus said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:20-21). I do believe that GOD has a reason hiding from our eyes, althought he did once show himeself to eyes of his disciples. may GOD bless amen^^
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment. Sometimes it is hard to find God, and then God just jumps right out at us. Bless you!
@ADEehrh 6 жыл бұрын
Apparently God is so Incompetent that it Can't figure out how to give us a clear obvious non disputable message!
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
You might ask, Might God have a reason not to give a "clear obvious non disputable message"? That is a profound question, and it might have an answer.
@adrianaarellano524 6 жыл бұрын
God is not hiding from us he's watching from heaven watching us
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
Yes, but God is also right up close! Bless you!
@moottzzy 6 жыл бұрын
Thank you. God bless. Saved. Subscribed. Gonna show it to hubby. Since I’m now new to your channel I’m gonna look for more of your videos. God bless.
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
I just caught up with this comment, but welcome! I would love to hear your experiences and thoughts on the godanautobiography.com website.
@yahjah2913 6 жыл бұрын
Your voice literally sounds exactly like Gods!!!!! Very very very similar!!!! I JUST asked God for confirmation that it was his voice that I was hearing . At the beginning of your video I paused and went to the restroom after you asked “ what does the voice of God sound like?” I laughed out loud and said “ you!”. Came back and watched the video and now even more convinced. His voice has a lot of inflections but is wavering. THe way he speaks never changes but is constant..... Just. Like. Water. He. Is. The. Living. Water. Period. All of the testimonies that describe his voice says that it sounds like running water. He just told me “ I looooove you toooo daughter.” Lol!!! I just pictured waves washing up on a beach and then rolling back. That’s his voice.
@yahjah2913 6 жыл бұрын
Unwavering not wavering
@yahjah2913 6 жыл бұрын
Unwavering not wavering
@victorchristy1706 7 жыл бұрын
I thought, in my mind, that the voice of God is an authoritative deep bass, like James Earl Jones or Paul Robeson.
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
Yes, so did I! Something like the voice in "This is CNN." I also thought, if God sent a messenger, he would be a lot better looking than I am, and have a socko personality. Go figure!
@Grunt-t2f 7 жыл бұрын
When God talked to me (it happened to me only once, I'm eleven, so maybe he'll talk to me more in the future) it sounded deep nd reassuring, I kinda forgot how it sounded like, but I think that how was his voice like.
@JerryLMartin 7 жыл бұрын
I am happy for you, Tenya. But it doesn't have to be a voice. Also listen to God speaking, sometimes silently, in your heart.
@kyleshultz6920 7 жыл бұрын
Why would it ever be unreasonable to not make a decision on whether or not God exists? The goal here to navigate reality successfully; agreed? When you are driving down the road and you see a red light at a busy intersection you are faced with a choice; apply the break and err on the side of caution or do not apply the break and take a risk. In this scenario unjustified belief could be hazardous. How does this not apply to the God claim?
@JerryLMartin 7 жыл бұрын
Smart question! The analogy isn't bad, but in the traffic case, there is no serious loss in caution. In the case of God, everything is at stake. You have to make a decision about the whole course of your life. What is the worst-case scenario for each choice? If you choose to believe and it turns out there is no God, then you have chosen a religious worldview and lifestyle when you didn't have to. If you choose not to believe and it turns out there is a God, then you have missed -- well, you have to answer for yourself. From my perspective, it is like missing out on the meaning of life.
@kyleshultz6920 7 жыл бұрын
Pascal's Wager. You are taking a lot of things on faith here. First, and probably the most glaring, is that you have no good reason to believe that the criteria for getting into heaven is belief. Disbelief could be the criteria in which one is granted everlasting salvation. Secondly, which heaven are you betting on? In the example, one would have no good reason to believe that the light would turn green by the time they got to the intersection so applying the break is the only rational position to take. It would be unreasonable to not do so. Until such time as the burden of proof has been met on the God claim, it is irrational to believe. I might add that this is true whether or not God actually exists (if exists is even the right term for a supernatural entity). It is not always rational to believe in that which is true. For example, Kepler 186f is a newly discovered planet. Now, it is true that this planet has water or it does not have water. Pick a side of the dichotomy and justify a positive position. One could also argue that unjustified belief in a deity could be hazardous to ones personal development. I could think of hundreds of scenarios in which social and economic pressures would be exacerbated by worshiping a god that turned out to not exist.
@JerryLMartin 7 жыл бұрын
You endorse the idea that you shouldn't believe anything without proof. But that is not a reasonable standard for the kind of situation where there is no proof on either side, the stakes are high, and you just have to make a choice. Either choice would be reasonable in such a case. It is really a question about which kind of life you choose to live.
@kyleshultz6920 7 жыл бұрын
Terminology is key here. What it seems you are arguing for, without your exact definition of reasonable, is that it is okay to have faith. If you are arguing that being reasonable is just the ability to give explanations for your actions, then, yes, I would agree that it is reasonable to believe in God. This does not get us any closer to the truth of the subject though, and it definitely is not rational. Under this definition, one could argue that it is just as reasonable to not believe. Go ahead and place your bet but you are betting against all other possible gods. Good luck with that.
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
The point is that, if you consider believing in something that makes sense to you, even if you can't prove it, then, unless it can actually be disproved, it is reasonable to decide to believe it.
7 жыл бұрын
the answer jerry martin gives is not what bible teaches. It is also a lie, UNLESS PANTHEISM is real. That believes that "Jesus is everywhere," or God is everywhere or in all things, including rocks, and insects. Pantheism. Now as a struggling Christians, this question of where is god is important to me. BUT when I hear a bullshit answer like this, it makes me almost feel that my belief in Christianity has been a waste of time. If I wanted to believe in Pantheism, I would have followed Buddhism or HInduism. I want a real god that is not afraid to reveal himself; to speak clearly to people; and gets involved in corrupt world and deals out justice. Otherwise, what do I need God for, when I can do things myself (like world war 2, where people had to die to fight and defeat evil)!
@JerryLMartin 7 жыл бұрын
Your Christianity is not a waste of time. It enables you to connect with God. That God is everywhere is actually a traditional Christian view. It is not the same as pantheism, which holds that God is only nature. You have to connect with God where YOU find him.
@TheStevepel 7 жыл бұрын
Jerry L. Martin to help you . God created man in is image(spirit)So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1 27 also in john 4 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. are you looking at the creation and not at the creator? in this world where is the kingdom of God spread on the world? is the kingdom the living one that create the kingdom or the physical creation of the kingdom? what good is a physical kingdom if there is no living one inside of it? you say God is hiding because people are in this world and love more the creation then the creator who is in division and double minded? And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. mark 3 24 look in this world is there war, poverty, iniquity? are they not made by people in this world? Not every one that said to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven. Mathiew 7 21 kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpOQnXiVm5eIa6s
@JerryLMartin 7 жыл бұрын
What I actually said was that, in fact, God is not in hiding, not if we direct our attention in the right way. But there is a fairly obvious sense -- recorded in the Bible itself -- in which God is not, for example, visible, at least not by ordinary perception.
@umbreonyay8627 7 жыл бұрын
I can tell u where he is hiding but it's up to u to find him don't believe anything u see or hear
@portiaqhuqha1447 7 жыл бұрын
PRINCESS BABY JULIANNA he with a small h... No We not looking for that God.. we talking "He"
@JerryLMartin 7 жыл бұрын
Well, in my case, God found me! That's how it often happens!
@umbreonyay8627 7 жыл бұрын
I know where god is
@portiaqhuqha1447 7 жыл бұрын
PRINCESS BABY JULIANNA we not looking for that god with Small g..we looking or talking about God with capital letter G...
@JerryLMartin 7 жыл бұрын
Good.
@umbreonyay8627 7 жыл бұрын
I LIKE THIS AND I KNOW EVERYTHING
@starmanstarman576 7 жыл бұрын
For lack of understanding ; best shortest answer is God. If God is omniscient , omnipotent then He must know future events....in which case we humans have no Free Will , but we do. So if we havd Freewill then God does not know future but He is all knowing and knows future. So no matter what i do my future is pre determined as God knows its outcome. In this scenario a rapist , bomber , murderer will always say it was never their fault as their future was pre fixed and their brain neuron firing in such a way as to make themselves make decisions of sinful nature and crime. Adam first man on earth came 6000 years ago . Carbon dating proved modern human skeletons as old as 200,000 years old. So who were those early humans ? All holy text was written on stones and tree barks . No prophet will come in modern times when we have better recording devices like cds & computers. There are 186 religions . Which God is right Allah , Yaweh , Jesus , Apollo , Zeus , Thor , shiwa , eshwar , bhagwan , buddah etc etc ? Almost all say others will go to hell. Angry God will torture , choke , burn , smother you if you dont believe in Him in a special place ,for eternity , He has made for you i.e Hell. Gun on your head to believe Him or He will roast & toast you in Hell. Americans can never know misery & hunger ; they are rich powerful country... I live in 3rd world i see people sufferings from disease, hunger , poverty , no water , no sanitation.....billions on this planet suffer. What kind of God would make people suffer & die miserable deaths . History is full worshippers of faith died brutally in bomb attacks snd earthquakes inside mosques , churches and other places of worshiping . My conclusion : Could not God create a world having no misery . So miserable earth was made on the name of "Test " ? What if we dont wanna take this Test whose outcome is already known by God ? wait not known by God ? then He is Not omniscient. Why all prophets structly coming to middle east area only ? China , India have 5000 years old written history records . No Prophet ever came to india , china , japan , korea , america , europe , africa , south america. It was a trend happening in middle east area only thousands of years ago. God is not omnipotent as He does not interfere in easing sufferings of humans and watches as a silent spectator . Hence No God exists. God did not create people . People created God. Afterlife concepts and virgins giving births concepts were there much before jesus.
@JerryLMartin 7 жыл бұрын
You clearly have a strong interest in questions about God and have done a lot of reading. God: An Autobiography speaks to these questions in a way you would find surprising. If you do look the book, I would love to hear from you. Meanwhile, be well.
@ubaiduddinahmed7507 7 жыл бұрын
Sir Jerry L. Martin I have heard your wonderful presentation about God expressing himself through nature, I liked it alot but our absorption of the material world around us is limited to our five senses. what we perceive as a external material world is only a limited absorption and interpretation of electrical signals being processed in our brain. we receive and process limited reality we cannot fully understand true nature of God almighty. if he were to appear tomorrow in front of humans on the physical plain also we will only see what He wants us to see.
@JerryLMartin 7 жыл бұрын
Yes, nature is only one way God manifests Himself. God has many aspects, including depths beyond what we can fathom. Still, it is important to accept and give full credit to the ways He does show himself. They are true ways, after all.
@cockblocking7840 7 жыл бұрын
that's lie i heard the voice of god and what he's describing is lies im sorry but i have heard the voice god is -- it sounds strong gentle powerful compassion loving is a voice can't not be describe if ever heard the voice of god then you im telling the truth
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
Well, it is like listening to the radio. I suppose each of us has a somewhat different receiver, and if God speaks to us, it will sound somewhat different from one person to another.
@benedictmalone5653 7 жыл бұрын
sometimes i question if there is a god or higher power cause sooo much happens and alot of us are unhappy and i think we are just feeling alone we have no proof of how we were created sometimes i feel like were just here and dont know why!
@JerryLMartin 7 жыл бұрын
Benedict, yes, that is the human situation. We are here, the world is not perfect, and it is hard know whether there is a God or why we are here. I think, reading through what Gold told me that is reported in God: an Autobiography does give us a valuable perspective on those questions. There are answers but they are not simple or obvious.
@CosmicCanvas666 8 жыл бұрын
how do you distinguish between your own thoughts and god speaking to you?
@JerryLMartin 8 жыл бұрын
That is a good and important question, AP! Within my experience, God-words and my own simply have a different feel, much the way a memory feels different from a fantasy. You also have to pay attention to what the voice says -- does it lead you to constructive change in your life and relationship with others -- or to false self-certainty or doing harm or fanaticism. I would love to hear about your experience and respond if I can be helpful. Just leave a comment at www.godanautobiography.com. Of course, the book I wrote about my back and forth with God -- God: An Autobiography as Told to a Philosopher -- tells how I reasoned this through.
@5720jenny 8 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
Kind of you to say that, Jennifer!
@xantizodew9134 8 жыл бұрын
drugs are amazing
@mazaredojasminpaiget.8938 8 жыл бұрын
Drugs do harm, and he isn't at harm
@JerryLMartin 8 жыл бұрын
Just for the record. None of my experiences was drug-induced. Diet coke is about as far as I go!
@JerryLMartin 8 жыл бұрын
Right!
@danjones9007 8 жыл бұрын
Tens of thousands of children die in Africa every day. Either God can't help them, or He doesn't care.
@JerryLMartin 8 жыл бұрын
Dan, this is, of course, a profound question. In all my dialogues with God, I received insight into why the world isn't perfect but still, like you, it is hard to accept that God who presumably could help doesn't seem to do so. However, I am told in prayer that God suffers when we suffer. Puzzling!
@JerryLMartin 7 жыл бұрын
In the full book, God: An Autobiography, the question of human suffering is explored from multiple sides, the result being no easy answers but greater understanding of how God goes through the suffering with us.
@queennegus7239 7 жыл бұрын
Jerry L. Martin how and why could you worship a being that claims to be all knowing an powerful but sits back and watches pple suffer?? y'all always claim how wonderful and loving your god is yet he LITERALLY PLANNED for children to starve to death and is watching it happen but instead of helping he's suposedly sitting there suffering too?? I'm shocked at you pples ability to believe this,this is insulting to a person of normal intelligence.
@queennegus7239 7 жыл бұрын
Jerry L. Martin then why would he foster such confusion?? why doesn't he make his existence and reasoning clear to you and the rest of mankind??-at least the ones that give a damn. you claim he speaks to yet you're still puzzled by his reasoning.
@JerryLMartin 6 жыл бұрын
These issues are explored in God: An Autobiography and taken quite seriously. There is no simple answer but your comment makes assumptions that may not be true -- for example, that everything that happens is "literally planned" by God. The book gives a quite different account of how God relates to us and to the world.