Trying to fool GOD

- A man walks into a restaurant. He then proceeds to blow himself up because he is surrounded by "non-believers" who deserve to die. With his last breath he shouts; "Allah Akbar" (God is great).... because he thinks his act has pleased God.

- Two armies clash in a battle to determine who will do Gods work. One side shouts "God willing, we will prevail" while the other side kills with a conviction that they are doing God's will as well! Insha'Allah (God willing!)

- How many modern Christians still believe in their hearts that God would have them slavishly and literally follow the metaphors and cautionary tales that were written in the Bible by mere mortals trying to tell us what God really wanted. One can only imagine what Jews and Muslims must think of ritual-laden Catholics or Anglicans or rattlesnake-handling Babtist fundamentalists. They must think that these Christian fools are only deceiving themselves!

- A couple let's their 8 year old daughter die for want of a blood transfusion even though there is no word about this at all in the bible.

Should I go on? The point we are trying to make here is that the habit of humans trying to convince others that they know the mind of God, is arrogance of the highest degree. To think that any one of us has the inside poop what the wishes of a Supeme Being are, or even if that Being has any wishes about us at all is shear human folly!

Remember, if you want to go Biblical, then let me remind you that "Pride" is the greatest of all the sins! To assume that any of us has a handle in what God wants, does, says, is, or will be, is almost beyond belief.

No, let me clarify that, it IS beyond belief.

I imagine that for us to know the mind of God would be about the same as a lowly ant trying to figure out what humans are all about. There is no common ground at all in which any sort of a comparison can be drawn.

They are so far removed from each other that they might as well be in different dimension.

With the term "Omnipotent and Omniscient" applied to God, then that would put us human beings in about the same position as the ants in the previous comparison.

And I'll we damned if I'm going to let some ant tell me how to live my life!

Allan W Janssen is the author of The Plain Truth About God at www.God-101.com and the blog "Perspective" at http://God-101.blogspot.com