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Is God only a pure and loving God who does positive things in our life when we trust in Him and give Him our lives?
I have very bad anxiety. I've seen therapists and have taken pills for it, but it affects my relationship with God greatly because, I've always been scared of life-threatening illnesses or disfigurements... or something just happening to me that will keep me from finding love or being married... or just being able to live my life to its fullest.
I'm scared that if I trust God and hand my life over to Him that something along those lines will be His plan for me.
Does God hurt people like that? The people I see in wheelchairs... or the people burned on over 90% of their body... is that the work of God? Or the devil? Or... humans...?
Is God only responsible for the good and pure? Or does he cause harm as punishment? Or... because it's someone's plan?
I'm very scared of this. Every day I am scared.
I want to be able to love and trust God fully... but I need to know that he won't hurt me like this if I trust him.
Why do terrible things happen to good, God-fearing Christians? What causes that?
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I'll have to say that I'm currently agnostic, but was raised strongly protestant and bible based.
Without preaching a sermon here, I think that it all boils down to free will. There are arguments for and against, but my feeling is that God generally doesn't act for or against us.
Yeah, miracles and prayer, etc., but basically since the Garden of Eden, I think that we're responsible for the direction of our lives and what happens, happens.
As you mentioned, terrible things happening to people, but also people being cured unexpectedly of disease or illness, etc. Again, I think it's all a matter of living your life as best you can, following His path as best you can and accepting what comes as nothing more than randomly occurring events.
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