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Should we defend God?

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anthony123

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It strikes me as strange that Muslims kill people for drawing cartoons of Muhammad, that Muslims and Jews fight over the Temple Mount. That Christians attack movies that they deem offensive to God or certain political leaders for any number of reasons. I've seen Christians become angry at each other over calvinist beliefs, salvation beliefs, and their beliefs regarding the rights of the Jews in Jerusalem over the Temple Mount.

Why do we feel that we need to come to God's defense? Does God need us to defend Him? If God wants the Jews to remain in Israel, for example, won't he make it happen. Does he need us to help Him make that happen?

When does God want us to come to His defense and why?
 
When people do not understand what it means to or how to follow Jesus. This is what we call apologetics. We do not need to bomb abortion clinics. We do not need to have Tea parties in every city. We need to defend the integrity of His word through the strength we receive with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
 
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To answer your question 'Should we defend God' the answer is no. God defends us yet while doing that can easly defend himself. Those that sling off at God soon come unsuck by their own hand. A Christian should never defend God, rather pray for the offending party. This is more powerful than defending God. God sees your heart for Him, He knows it gets under your skin, so know this and do as He asks, pray for sinner, pray for those who use you.

Heaps of people have had ago at one time or another, to pick a fight with the big guy is wrong and dumb. This is why you pray for them, because God can and will defend Himself and you all in one breath. God did not call us to fight His battles, He called us to join in pray and power , your spirit with His as one.

Stop and think about this 'Paul set out to kill christians, what if we defended ourselves and killed Paul, what of the Good News going out to the gentiles. I am glad no one defended themselves or Jesus. Yet Jesus took Paul the most feared man in the time and used Paul to do His work. No don't defend, pray for sinners, you may just defend yourself against a new Christian in His plan.

Just a thought
 
We pray that His will be done through us. No longer is the prophet necessary to speak to the people.
I would add that a distinction should be made between honest belief and pride concerning apologetics.
Anyway, I honestly don't believe Christ wants us to wear a muzzle when the Word comes into question.
 
I don't think we are defending God when it comes to these matters, rather we are defending the truth. We need to carefully examine HOW we defend the truth though.

God does not need us to come to His defense, but don't we naturally defend what we love?
 
I would like to put my input into this discussion, and hopefully I wont confuse anyone (Including myself).

We can in all honesty say that God does not need defending. He is almighty powerful and beyond anything man can fathom. If God wanted to right now he could remove all sin from this earth. He could destroy all blasphemers and murderers and adulterers. So in all essence we can remove that from the conversation.

What I believe is defending God is standing up for the Truth. Its removing false doctrine from the Church. Its living our lives as he commanded. Its loving one another (agape love). Its trying to live like Christ did daily. Its living in faith and trusting in him. Its learning his words daily so that we will be in a position to understand His Word. Its not shying down from others when we need to stand firm. Its correcting other believers when they stray in a loving manner. Its praising him daily, even when things go wrong in our lives. Its helping the poor and needy. Its having fellowship with other believers.

Its when we defend God in the ways I have suggested that we show our Love for him. If we stand back and say "what will be will be because Gods all powerful" we loose our stepping and fall. We should live for Christ, ACT for Christ and be willing to stand up and say HE IS GOD, without fear.

Just to add a small footnote: Killing for Christ is not defending him. Its a silly presumption that only destroys and opens the Gospel up to ridicule and hate.
 
What does 'God' need defending against? Lies are lies and they will be exposed. A 'false witness' will be torn down by 'fact'. Me 'defending' 'God' would be about as useful as a rabbit defending me against a lion attack. The foundation of Christ is solid, built upon a rock and it will never be torn down, the bible says this quite clearly. If anything 'truly' is built on Christ it cannot fail plain and simple. The only defending I see going on is religion against religion, opinion against opinion, and who is more right than another. Turning our attention 'inward' does a world of wonder over always looking 'outward.' All things of this world will pass away plain and simple.
 
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