For Your Inspiration
Empowered by His Love
by Angela Steele
U
nderstandably, many people consider
the Bible and God to be irrelevant
and inapplicable. Unfortunately, many
believers, people who believe the Bible and
believe in God, have misunderstood the Bible
and misrepresented God. Both believers of
the Bible and unbelievers can misunderstand
it and misrepresent the character of God.
I had viewed God as a rule keeper; a
God who is obsessed with do’s and don’ts,
rights and wrongs, as if He stands in heaven
with an over-sized piece of white chalk and a
thick, black slate tallying all moral and immoral
actions, as He impatiently taps His foot. Many
people see God as a dictator who delights in
unjustly killing people who don’t live up to
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his standards, or at least making them suffer
during their lives for their apathy or indifference toward Him.
Law abiding citizens question the validity of the Bible and the character of God when
natural disasters around the world displace
millions of innocent people. The usefulness of
the Bible and the character of God come into
question. Questions asked: How can the Bible
be relevant in the wake of rampageous calamity, and how could God allow this atrocity?
It is confusing; it is heartbreaking. How does
God fit into this picture? It is understandable why the Bible and God can be viewed
as trivial when all throughout history people
misconstrued the teachings from the Bible