God: The Destroyer
God as a bad entity, who only brings death and destruction.
Still grieving my brother, I took what the Vicar told me and turned away from God. I felt betrayed, He had abandoned me and family; my brother. I had be been let down by God too many times in my life, I had seen him let other people around the world suffer, I remember the ignorant ponderings of a seven old as I asked my mother “why isn’t God giving the African people food?” and I’d get the same waffling and ultimately useless reply, “God works in mysterious ways”.
The Bible teaches that;
On the sixth day, God created the land animals and said “Let us create man in Our Image, after Our Likeliness” and he formed man from the dust in the ground and breathed into him life and man became a living soul. God created them in male and female and called the first male Adam, who called the first female Eve.
Man is a selfish and violent creature. It destroys all of that which surrounds him and then moves on to the next place and destroys everything there, and then moves on again, again and again. Man is a walking, talking, parasite – a virus. So God, then, can not be a great being if man was created in His image, can he? The God who took my Roger, the God who took my brother, the God who abandoned me.
God, the Creator.
God, the Omnipotent.
God, the Destroyer.
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Post CommentBrian
On February 5, 2008 at 3:25 am
Hi. I was very sad to read your story. I honestly feel your pain, and also understand your questions. I feel that you may have an understanding of the “big picture” surrounding Gods plan, when you were growing up, but I read no mention of it. You ended your article quoting Genesis, Gods creation of man. As you also know, man sinned against God. This is the reason there is sin and suffering. Its not God the destroyer, it is man the destroyer. I feel that often we approach the issue from the wrong way… We think, if I believe in God, then God is supposed to answer to us, protect us, do our bidding. We have done this to ourselves. God created us for the sole reason to worship Him. When we don’t (and none of us do), then its us who have turned our back on God.
People act very self-centric. We act like the world revolves around us. The idea that God is not bound to our wishes, and transcends our knowledge and intelligence, doesn’t sit well in this day and age when things happen that we don’t like. The alternative solution, science, is cold, hard, and one I, personally, shudder at the thought of. Lets say “Bob’s” dad dies. I could tell him that God does have a plan for everything, and its outside of our scope, our boundaries of understanding (If God is all-powerful, do you think He should only do things you approve of, or understand?). Or, I could tell him his dad was a victim of natural selection, that nature decided he was too weak to continue, the ever rolling wheel of eliminating the weak. I could say this for any person who dies. Of course, this is very cold and impersonal. But, natural selection IS cold and impersonal. Would you have liked it very much if your parents told you that when your bunny died? Yes, the issue has little to do with what we like to hear, what sounds easier to deal with, or are we looking for escape mechanisms instead of dealing with the issues?
I don’t always understand why God does things. I also know that that is is the very nature of the relationship between God and man. I trust God, and have a personal relationship with Him. I know that He will do everything for my eventual good. Because I can’t know the mind or plan of God in intrinsic detail, when something bad happens to me, I trust that God will use it for my good, even though I may not see this for years, and possibly never. If my house is burning, and my 1 month old is trapped, and I am rough in removing him from the house, even though my baby experiences pain, it is for his good. He doesn’t understand, perhaps for years, why I hurt him. He isn’t capable of understanding the big picture, and thus will react accordingly. This analogy has flaws, sure, but is a small example of the relationshipbetween God and His children.
I hope and pray that you will experience peace, and look again at your child-hood, and what you have been taught.
Brian
Ali the girl that annoys you in english
On February 5, 2008 at 8:59 am
hi there my names ali and i think that your a great writer and congrats for getting it ppublished i must say that i am proud of you mr whitewick!!
keep writing and being funny
love always xxxx
meepmeep
On February 5, 2008 at 11:36 am
*coughs* Wightwick….
Sorry about Roger.
Interesting writing, a lot of hidden resentment in you, non?
>Talk more
shane
On February 5, 2008 at 1:10 pm
GOD that was good. or should i say god is bad? hmmmmmmmm tricky very tricky indeed.
jessie
On February 6, 2008 at 4:26 am
i had no idea about your brother- i’m sorry.
quite a touching article i must say- i’m in the LRC and for the duration of my reading i compeltely forgot where i was- now that’s good writing!
love x
Neville
On February 6, 2008 at 8:12 am
God the destroyer?
I wasn’t going to bother to read this article after the first paragraph but I continued to read because it’s always interesting to read other points of view when it comes to god.
You see Mr. Wightwick, I completely disagree with you for writing this trash! You are blaming god for everything that happens in your life because your parents and a stupid vicar couldn’t give you proper answers to your questions as a child now that you are a man you have no idea of how to seek the TRUTH, instead you claim to have turned away from god, let me inform you that god hasn’t turned away from you just yet because he love you, me and everybody else that has ever walked on the earth.
Your problem with god is that you have no faith! what do you think that we are going to live in this life forever? we are mere mortals god is the ruler of mankind, god created us in his own image, and because he love us unconditionally people like you he doesn’t give up on until it’s completely impossible to retrieve your soul from darkness.
Do you think that life on earth is the greatest thing since slice bread? well I have news for you, life on earth stinks not because of god as you would like to have it but, because of Satan, had it not been for Satan we human wouldn’t be imperfect, we would have been created perfect, hence the reason god won’t give up on you until it is impossible, to call your soul back to his bosom, you are one of his creations that have more flaws than others.
How can you justify hating god (turning away as you aptly put it) when you are only a speck of dust that could fit on the point of a needle but, you think that you are so important when in reality you or I are unimportant.
You can’t create anything worth while so how are you to understand what god is, what god does, how he works or why he take or gives.
All you can think about is the bible says this or the bible says that but you haven’t a clue, other wise you would know that god handed down I will say some of the words in the bible yes.
Unfortunately the bible was written by men, evil men who wanted to control the masses so they wrote and omitted all the good information that was to be added and wrote what they thought was was good for them, it makes them powerful, it allows them to enslave mankind by allowing us to believe that god is wicked.
On th contrary god is a loving god, a compassionate god and a peaceful god.
One of your problems with god is that you would like to be able to dictate to god tell him what to do and how to do it Hahaaaa.
We are all born, we live for as long as we are supposed to not one minute longer, if this wasn’t true the only people that would live on earth are the people who could afford to buy more life.
Do you remember Howard Hughes? he was the richest man on earth when he was going to die, he was asked what would he want before he passed away, are there anything really special that he craved for because he had everything that he could ever want in this life that he Howard Hughes and some people hold dear, which is worth nothing, just that they don’t know it!.
Do you know what he answered and said? Howard Hughes said More Time.
think about what you have written here God loves you unconditionally, his love for you can’t be measured measure.
So sorry for the vicar you went to see, just goes to show that it’s just a business to him and others like him.
One Love!
your childhood friend
On February 12, 2008 at 10:27 am
hi kris,
what a great writer you are!
i very much agree with you!
anyway just to let u no im proud!
lots of love xxxx
Linzi
SoWLjaH_BOii 101
On February 12, 2008 at 6:35 pm
HAE MAYNNE….. YALL GOTZ DA WRONG IDEA OV HU MA GOD BE DAWG….. AEY YO…. AH ONLY GOTZ A FEW WORDS MAYNNE….. JUST GET YO FAKTS RYTE…. I AGREE YALL A GREAT WRITER BUT MAYNNE YOU WRITE ABOWTZ THA WRONG SHYZZ DAWG…. MAYBE IF YALL GON SIT DOWN AND TALK TO GOD AND GET TO KNOW HIM…. MAYNNE IM TELLYN YOU DAT YOU GON SEE MA GOD IN A DIFFERENT WAE… NOT IN A BAD WAE BUT IN DA BEST WAE THERE KUD BE…. AND GO TA CHURCH BRO… YOU GON FIND SOME ANSWERS THERE…. ND WHEN YOU KNOW GOD…. HE GON GIVE YOU ALL THE ANSWERS… PEACE BRO
GOD LOVES MA BROTHA:
GOD BLESS YALL
Ejiroghene
On February 14, 2008 at 10:44 am
You have too much free time that is why you are attacking God who has the ability to wipe you off the surface of this planet, you should have been born in third world countries where they struggle daily for ther basic things of life, if were there, no one would build you faith for you, the suffering there would be enough for you to seek and find God
roo
On February 15, 2008 at 8:47 am
heyloo im spost to be doing english.. but hey this was more interesting.. omgosh i have no i dea thats so sad
your a reli good writer my love xoxoxoxo
pink kid
On March 17, 2010 at 12:08 pm
i aostly cant come from your point of veiw but im not and i BELEIVE im not trying to gilt any one but just now what your saying later on and i do feel for but its not gods folt