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Why do people hate God ?

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By mmminternational


God is a very misunderstood higher force or being that people just cannot grasp. Think about it, the bible refer to Jesus Christ holding the universe in His hand while using the earth as His footstool. God is not asking you to understand Him but to obey and enjoy  His presence amongst us.

All the sayings we have about God, whether we love or hate Him, have been mentioned in the Book of Revelation. God knew there would be a falling away of people and they would start hating Him.

Reading about Job would be the best place to start on who should be hating God and who should not. Job lost everything and to top it all God allowed Job to get horrible sores and boils all over his body. Job stood firm and still praised and worshipped his God. There have been many martyrs in the world who have willingly given their lives for the Lord and would have done it again just out of their love for Him.

God is not complex. He does not expect us to be complicated. He wants us to come before him with humility in our lives and love in our hearts. He does not expect much from us. He is looking for faith the size of a "pinhead". That's all. And yet we cannot give it to him.

On the morning of November 11, 1992 at approximately 04h00, I was involved in a rather unusual accident whilst on duty at Trident Air and Rescue Services. I had been doing body removals after working hours for approximately four months and had been slowly tiring and not taking care of my health. I drove the doctor team even though majority of my patients were code blues.

on the morning in question I allowed a patient's family member to re enter the area in which were doing a removal and paid the ultimate consequence for my actions. I was to end up in a wheel chair paralysed from the waist down.

I was very young at the time and in the prime of my career. So you know what its like to hear the words that you may never do your work again let alone walk.

God came through with a miracle. Although I now walk again, He has limited what I can do. He knew that should He have given me total healing I would have abused it again.

In October 1997 I suffered a TIA (Trans Ischemia Attach) from working long hours, not eating properly and not taking regular rest periods. If you're wondering what a TIA is, it's a Mild CVA or stroke. The process of healing at home took a little longer.

Hospitals at the time were losing face among the people and there was no doubt that I would recover exceptionally fast. I needed to pray and pray big time. As much as I had been back-sliding at the time, God came through for me.

So far we have concluded I was disobedient.

Then came the pen ultimate rescue plan that I had to ask God to implement. A near death horrifying experience. I will not wish this one on anybody, not even my closest enemy. This is an experience that will haunt me to my grave.

From the photos I have shared in this hub you will gain the greatest respect and love for God you have ever known.

It was August 31, 2003. Zandre (my soon to be fiance) and I were on our way from Theunessen to Hartebeesport Dam to get engaged in the wild among the animals. We loved the area and were going to have the wedding and reception at Amazingwe. We were both very happy and excited and the ring was in my pocket ready to slip on her finger. I had allowed her no budget and the opportunity to choose her own ring.

We stopped in Parys to get some refreshments and proceeded to enter the N1 from the Parys Tollgate entrance.  Approximately 5 kilometers after the Vaal River bridge my world as I knew it came to an abrupt end. It was as if God had stopped the world from turning. I awoke in a pool of blood, hanging in my safety belt, with the car on its roof. My right arm was crushed between the roof and door with the glass and frame embedded in my upper right arm.

My legs were lodged in between the peddles. My rib cage was completely crushed with a flail chest. I was struggling to breath. A paramedic had to cut me loose from my belt otherwise I would have died from lack of air.

"Where was Zandre" was all that came to mind at the time. To my relief she approached the car battered and brused but alive. I asked if she still wanted to get married even if I weren't going to survive. As a matter of fact Zandre thought I had passed on while they were cutting me free from the wreckage.

I asked the paramedic to remove the ring from my pants pocket and I placed it on her finger. What a way to get engaged.

The removal of my carcass from the vehicle was painfully long. I did survive the accident but my engagement did not survive and we broke up a few months later.

God had His hand in my survival. He always does. He has a purpose for all of us.

I could go on forever. So why should we hate God?

In the Word it states that God can do no wrong. Even when we believe it to be wrong He has done no wrong.

Because we don't understand and because everything in the world was created by Him we start to hate Him when things go wrong in our lives.

We don't get our own way, we don't get what we want and everything is God's fault. We never blame ourselves.

I have every right, if I go on mans' belief of who God is, to hate him. But I don't hate him. Why? Because I was taught as a young child that God came first in my life. I was taught to love Him and share Him with my colleagues and friends. He is my first and my last.

This true-to-the-bone Roman Catholic would never desert Him no Matter what. 

Isn't this proof that God exists and Loves me very much?

God spared me from this accident
God spared me from this accident

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SirDent profile image

SirDent  says:
9 months ago

Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. His mercy endures forever. Loved the hub and testimony. To God be the glory. \o/

Cris A profile image

Cris A  says:
9 months ago

I don't get the idea how some people who don't believe in God hate him. I mean how can you hate "something" that you don't believe in? Weird.

Thanks for sharing you experience. If anything I wish it could make people sit up and think. :D

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Tom Rubenoff  says:
9 months ago

What an amazing story. There is nothing like the graphic illustration of our mortality to bring us closer to that which, alone, is immortal.

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Eldritch Elegy  says:
8 months ago

Amazing story. It's uplifting to hear from people who have it right -- that suffering is not something God does, but something which people bring on themselves and others... and sometimes it's just plain accidental.

Your courage and faith in the face of suffering is something we should all strive to emulate.

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retirementhelp  says:
8 months ago

Amazing Story!! It is unbelievable the things that God does for us that we never even know about. When he does something that is tangible and so visible it is hard to deny. Thanks for sharing such a personal story. Made God continue to bless you and your family.

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jacobt2  says:
7 months ago

wow...great testimony. it seems like you have great faith, thanks for sharing.

Martin  says:
7 months ago

Hi,

Thank you for sharing this amazing story, it makes me feel sad about what happened to you in your accident and that you broke up with your fiance. To tell you the truth, if I saw this car wreck it would be just a car wreck to me but to know the story that it holds makes me look at it in a whole different way. I my self was once so desperate that I prayed to God in a cabin in a public toilet and yet someone so great as him heard my prayer and answered it, when I think about it it's still a miracle to me that he really answered my prayer. May peace and the Lord be with you always brother.

Debbie  says:
3 months ago

Amazing story, thanks for sharing it.

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DeBorrah K. Ogans  says:
3 months ago

mmminternational,

Great Hub!

Thank you for sharing this wonderful miraculous testimony!

No doubt The Lord certainly has more for you to do on this side of Heaven. God is Awesome!

I think most people hate God because they have never really taken the time to understand the fullness of God!

Blessing

Tim  says:
2 months ago

So, after a brief period of reflection I realize that my last post was a impulsive, crass and rude, so I appologize. That being said, allow me to clarify something for you and your readers. atheists don't hate god, they simply don't believe god exist. I think you are confusing the idea of hate alarmed that atheists feel when they witness those who try to force their non-secular value systems on the rest of us. Non-believers want to be left alone, and that means secularism in the institutions we all share. I am sure I can speak for Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Taoists and others when I say that it is deeply, deeply offensive to swear in court on a copy of the King James bible or to see a giant cross in a state park (Mojave, CA.) Before you retort that this is a Christian nation and that these things are fundementally American, you must realize that theo-conservitism is a modern movement. The founding fathers were ardent secularists, and it only takes a cursory reading of our founding documents to realize so.

So, in summary, atheists don't hate your god and they don't hate you, but they do feel that their fundemental liberty from a pseudo-state religion is more deeply threatened every day, and this is, perhaps, why we are so vocal.

subwaysadie  says:
2 months ago

That word hate is a strong emotion often misused. I think to answer your question, I would have to say that people don't hate God. Some people have chosen through their life experiences not to believe. Some people have chosen to believe but turn away. But, the one's who truly hate God, worship in churches, and hate their lives, because they are living the way another human; projected as better than themselves with perceived authority, is telling them they should, and they are so ashamed of who they are that they hide in religion and go through their day trying to be something other than themselves. I may be wrong, but it seems to me that Jesus, if real, tried to get people to see that the way to God is through I, not me. Total misinterpretation, and diversion from the truth. The very thing that Jesus was trying to show the masses was the first thing removed, because if it weren't we wouldn't have the Organizational Religions preying on our people, or our people praying on Organizational Religions.

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mmminternational  says:
2 months ago

I really like your interpretation. Thank you for your views. I really appreciate your critism. It helps me write better hubs.

donttrust  says:
3 weeks ago

God created everything, even evil for it's own day. Nothing before God and there is nothing after God. As for Job, God allowed the devil to take and kill Jobs family, ( which to me means God is as guilty as the devil, because he sat back and allowed the devil to do this) Then as a reward, God gave Job a new family. wow, big of God to do that, why couldn't Job keep the family he loved in the 1st place, if God is who he says he is then he already knew Job loved him. What a self-rightous God.

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mmminternational  says:
2 weeks ago

God can do no wrong. He asks us for but a pin head of faith and what is our reply? I love God with all my heart, all my soul and all my mind. What would I do without Him. I would be totally lost. I fall now and then, then I get my mind back, And I continue to praise him. While I fall away God carries me. What more can I ask than that He remains with me to my end and beyond.

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mmminternational  says:
2 weeks ago

Tim. I respect your belief and just have this comment to make: As God has saved me to write these articles so He would also expect me to put them and my critics to prayer. I thank you and ask that you don't stop reading the rest of my works. Your crit means a lot to me.

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emohealer  says:
2 weeks ago

mmminternational,

Thank You for inviting me to read this hub. Very interesting indeed starting with the title. Do we hate God? Is there a hatred of God within our society? One may percieve that such does exist, but I do not share that perception. More I think the perception is that God hates us. God is the punisher becaue we are bad. Did these things happen because you were bad? You judged you, not God, leave the judgement to Him. I believe he is far more compassionate than we are, and our lesson is to learn this compassion,starting with ourselves. We came here with the opportunity to create for ourselves and have been instructed to leave judgement out of the equation. We do in fact create for ourselves, but few of us with intention and many of us by default. We create using judgements or our own pre-determined perceptions. My own recent experience has shown me this in a clarity that is astounding. I am letting the print dry in the presses as I type this response for that hub. I return the invite to you to read my experience as I publish and give me your feedback. You are to be greatly commended as you seek the truth and share as you learn and grow. A great expression of words of faith here, shine on!

child of christ  says:
2 weeks ago

There isn't any hate, it is a case of misunderstanding, they love the beast more then they do their maker you can not have two gods

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