God is Just

A controversial issue that will never cease to exist, is what has inspired this blog post today...
On Facebook there has been several shared photos and quotes about "religion", especially with Homosexuality becoming more accepted, "religion" is at the forefront of all blame associated with slander and things such as this...
Due to these posts, I decided to seek a good comeback for those who are too ignorant to realize that by blaming "religion", they are completely copping out and only choose to blame it because - well I actually don't know why - just because I guess. It led to a Pinterest search that actually just ended up making me mad. Not because the atheist quotes offended me, but because even though the context is true-- they're completely ignorant statements and a result of these people called Atheists who are completely uneducated on the subject of "religion" or God.
Not too long ago there was a suicide of a young teenage boy -whom considered himself a girl, I'm not worried about labeling it correctly by sexual orientation, but I read the Tumblr post prior to the suicide and it stated that she wanted her death to make a mark on the world because she was being tortured and she wanted the result to shake the world into accepting everyone for who they are.
This isn't about Leelah Alcorn, God rest her soul, I am horrified that it came to her ending her own life and her parents are a whole new story. My point is that "religion" or God is NOT TO BLAME, though that's what has been going on. 

You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgement on someone else. For at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgement do the same things.

Romans 2:1

God TELLS us in His word to not judge. As I was growing up, in High School, I was known as a good Christian girl and as soon as I messed up, I was a "hypocrite" or "Jesus doesn't work". What all the ignorant opinionated people didn't realize is that I'm actually human and it wasn't that Jesus doesn't work, it's that I was disobedient.

God also tells us to LOVE one another, yet when those who don't believe talk badly about God or "religion", they make Him out to be a horrible person which is just another example of ignorance. 

And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
Matthew 22:39

As I read posts that slander "religion" or God and blame them for people choosing to end their own lives, world hunger, death without reason, miscarriages, and all other hardship. God is not to blame! Atheists and those who choose not to label themselves will go around blaming God for all of these things, but what you don't realize is that God doesn't effect free will. It all started with the garden of Eden. He put the forbidden fruit in the garden so that Adam and Eve had a choice to love Him or sin against Him. If the forbidden fruit wasn't there, then - as Atheists would put it - God forced them to love Him. Which, by the way, was an Atheist quote that was ignorant as well. God doesn't force anyone to love Him. If that was the case, the world would be an entirely different place. A Being as great as God has the ability to take out all things not of Him and He could, but what good is Love that is forced? Those who truly love Him, choose it. 

There is plenty of food in this world, I work at a restaurant, do you know how many FULL SIZED PLATES we throw away because it came out wrong and the person didn't want to eat it? Do you know how many buffets with POUNDS of food left over just throw them away? You're right, God needs to be blamed for world hunger...

Listen, people! I am not trying to say that Christians don't have their own issues. They get the Love mixed up. There are some self-righteous jerks out there who claim to be Christians, I get that! However. Just like Christians don't have the right to judge, slander, or ridicule homosexuals, prostitutes, transgender, drug addicts, alcoholics, thieves, etc. Atheists or anyone else, don't have the right to slander Christians because of the followers who think they can judge. God has judgement in store for them, too. His word doesn't say, My people won't be judged for judging others, He says everyone will be judged for judging others. They literally bring judgement UPON THEMSELVES. So, while you're bashing "religion" and blaming it for suicides of transgender teens, stop and think about how hypocritical that is to slander a slanderer.

There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But you- who are you to judge your neighbor?

James 4:12

There's one more thing, God is a King. He is above all else, another misconception. Whenever Atheists try to say "why can God do this and I can't" (sarcastically, of course). I can answer right now, He is God! He is ABOVE YOU (literally and figuratively). You're not allowed to judge because there is one Judge. Whether you actually believe in God or not, actually isn't relevant here. If you want to hate on God and assume He isn't real. From your perspective, I'm talking about a "religion". The way Christianity works, as a "religion" -in Atheists eyes, rather than what it really is- we believe that God is the King. He can do whatever he wants. That's why you don't get to decide why the world is going hungry, that is why He can judge and we can't...

Understand this, God's word doesn't exclude anyone, including his followers. I was in church for most of my life, the Pastor never said that everyone will be judged except Christians, we will ALL BE JUDGED. 

I end on this...

God is just: He will pay back those who trouble you.

2 Thessalonians 1:6

No stipulations on who He is talking about...EVERYONE will be judged. No karma, God, the ultimate judge will make sure all things are held accountable for. Things that haven't been washed away by His blood. Don't worry about the people who caused Leelah or anyone else's suicide. God will make sure there is justice for those who bring pain upon his Children...and that IS everybody.

Thanks for reading.