God’s creative nature should inspire us, particularly when we see the spark of creativity in ourselves and others. Creativity is evidence of the imago dei, the image of the Creator that resides in each human being, according to Genesis 1:26-27. Creativity is a universal trait of those made in God’s image, and God gives us the paradigm for all of our creative work in Genesis 2. In Genesis 1, God speaks creation into existence, declaring His plans for welfare and hope.
Dr. Scott Guffin explores the biblical evidence of God’s creative nature and how it inspires and encourages us. He also reflects on the imago dei, the power of God, and the hope that God offers us. We are God’s handiwork, created to do good works with our talents and skills. The Bible contains numerous references to art and creativity, showcasing God’s appreciation for human innovation.
God is the Creator, and we are His handiwork, created to do good works with our talents and skills. We are valuable to God, as He sees so much value in us that He gave His only Son, Jesus, to save us. Knowing your value to God affects your life by changing your story and acknowledging your God-given ability to create and the glory you bring to Him through creating.
Christians need to remember why art and creativity have value: we bear the image of our Creator. He not only loves creating but also loves creating with us through the power of the Holy Spirit. Creativity is God’s idea, and when we do, everything God created has a beautiful purpose. Appreciate God’s creativity by loving yourself and admiring His handiwork in you.
📹 God is so CREATIVE (Attributes of God Series)
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How does God determine our value?
The author emphasizes that our worth is not determined by human achievements like success, status, health, or money. Instead, God measures our worth through Jesus’ blood, which was shed for us. The only achievement that makes us worth anything in God’s eyes is Jesus’ achievement of our place in His kingdom as His child, who will be loved forever. God does not measure us by our achievements.
What are the three values of God?
God’s values are not just like ours, but are revealed in the Bible, such as doing what is right, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God. The New Testament emphasizes the value of knowing Christ Jesus, as the Lord desires for all to come to repentance. God values the Church, the body of believers described as “the bride of Christ”, and not other earthly achievements such as church buildings, engineering, technical capabilities, athletics, artistic achievements, leadership, political skills, or scientific discoveries.
The earth and everything else on it are just props and extras to the great drama of redemption, where God sent His Son to earth to rescue His children and build His eternal family. Jesus did not die for anything but the Church, and His shed blood was for the Church, not for anything else on earth. In essence, God’s values are not about earthly achievements but about the Church, the bride of Christ, and the redemption of humanity.
What does God’s creativity mean?
The Bible’s Genesis 1:1 outlines the act of creativity and creation, with God being the ultimate creator. He fashioned the universe out of nothingness, breathing life into existence. Humanity, created in His image, is also created to be creatives. Creativity and creative skill are God-given gifts, as seen in Exodus 35:35, where God filled the artisans and craftspeople of Israel with special skills such as engravers, designers, embroiderers, and weavers.
These skills served as a testament to the majesty of the Lord. Engaging with our creative side glorifies God by the things He equips and inspires us to make, making creativity an act of worship. The process of creating is valuable, apart from the things we create. In today’s culture, creativity is often viewed through a utilitarian lens, but the Lord delights in creating and as creatures made in God’s image, we too delight in it.
There is value and worth in simply leaning into the gifts and creative inclinations that God has blessed us with. It is an opportunity to praise the Lord and marvel at the wonders of life, regardless of their financial value.
Does God value creativity?
Creativity is the fifth word in the Bible, found in 60 of 66 books, and is a core characteristic of God. It is given to us so that we may be creative in the image of him. Creativity is a major theme throughout the first 11 chapters of the Bible, starting, stopping, unified, and scattering people and plans. Examples include bringing Adam to life, giving breath, giving animals names, invented clothing, causing a family to survive a flood, and scattering nations and creating people groups. Creativity is so powerful that it is a central theme throughout the Bible, demonstrating its power and impact on various aspects of life.
How to ask God for creativity?
The prayer seeks inspiration from God to ignite creativity in the individual. It aims to use their talents and imagination to glorify God’s Name. The prayer encourages the individual to not conform to this age but to renew their mind to discern God’s will. The prayer also mentions the gifts of prophecy, which differ according to the grace given to them, and the importance of putting skills to good use. The hope is that the individual will be brimming with inventiveness and resourcefulness, shining as they put their skills to good use.
Is creativity God’s gift to us?
Creativity is a spiritual gift that God possesses, as it is in His nature. The Holy Spirit imparts personality and spiritual gifts to God’s people, as Ephesians 2:10 states that we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works. When God equips a person to be creative, it is because He desires them to use their abilities to accomplish specific preordained purposes.
Communication arts encompass both oral and written communication skills. In ministry, creative oral gifts can be utilized in various roles such as preaching, teaching, and leadership of children’s or student ministries. Written communication arts include song lyrics, poetry, script writing, newsletters, and content authoring for websites and reading materials. With the emergence of e-learning within the Church, people with creative communication gifts will be in greater demand.
Craftsmanship arts involve virtuosos who work with their hands to create something from nothing, such as woodcraft, metalcraft, sculpture, painting, sewing, and software programming. These hands-on arts require expertise skill and are often characterized by ePersonality assessment.
Who is the most creative god?
Hephaestus, also known as Hephaistos, is a Greek god associated with various professions such as artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture, and volcanoes. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was either the son of Zeus and Hera or Hera’s parthenogenous child. He was cast off Mount Olympus by his mother Hera due to his lameness, a congenital impairment, or by Zeus for protecting Hera from his advances. In Roman mythology, Hephaestus’ Roman counterpart is Vulcan. Hephaestus’s lameness may have been due to his fall rather than the cause.
What is the creative act of God?
God’s creative act corresponds to his blessed being, granting creation a participation in his structured life by ordering creation to his intrinsic goodness. To save this book to your Kindle, add coreplatform@cambridge. org to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under Personal Document Settings on Amazon’s Manage Your Content and Devices page. Enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address. You can select to save to @free. kindle. com or @kindle. com variations, which are free but require wi-fi connection, and have service fees.
How do you know that God values you?
You are valuable to God because He created you in His image and loves you without limits. As His precious child, God sent His son, Jesus, to rescue you. Your value to God is demonstrated through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, which was a high ransom for your life. God’s willingness to pay for you with His life is what determines your worth, as it demonstrates His love and commitment to you.
Who is the God of creativity?
Hephaestus, the Greek god of design and creativity, is a partner of Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. As the god of the forge, Hephaestus created beautiful objects like fine jewelry and refined weapons, but his limpness was an integral part of his qualities. He was hurtfully scorned by the gods for walking with a limp, and was thrown from Mount Olympus to join mortals on earth. However, he was praised by the Greeks and their poets for teaching them how to make art and the importance of doing so.
Hephaestus himself created clever, innovative, and beautiful objects, including a fine chain for his wife Aphrodite, which he used to catch her with her lovers. This chain reminds us of spy and surveillance cameras today. Despite the sneaky trap he made, Hephaestus brought many beautiful and useful tools to the world. He used his brokenness, mockery from the gods, and the infidelity of his wife as a catalyst to create art and solve problems creatively. This teaching about creativity and design can be applied to various cultures, such as Hindu, Egyptian, Sumerian, Byzantine, Celtic, Nordic, Roman, and Greek mythology.
Is creative an attribute of God?
In Ephesians 3:20-21, Paul emphasizes the creative ability of God, stating that he is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or think. This is because God’s ability to do surpasses even the greatest, most ingenious, and boundlessly imaginative of the human race. Paul’s creative nature should inspire us, particularly when we see the spark of creativity in ourselves and others. Our ability, propensity, and drive to create is evidence of the imago dei, the image of the Creator that resides in each human being, according to Genesis 1:26-27.
Despite our tendency to mar the image of God within us as we think and act in ways that don’t align with His will, the spark is still there, allowing even those who are “far off” to create, design, and build in ways that surprise and astound us.
📹 Object lesson on trusting God (that your kids will BEG to do again!)
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I think the reason sometimes it’s hard to trust God is because what we see with our eyes is people especially our mother and father and if they are untrustworthy they had you for probably at least 18 years of brainwashing. My parents made us go to church, but they almost never talked about Jesus and when they did it was all twisted and then they abused us and didn’t live as if they trusted Him. It helps to have people around you that are trustworthy, so you know what trust is.
I like your analysis. God doesn’t make your pet die, or people sick, or bad things happen. He gives us the strength to get through it. Sometimes when bad things happen there will be other good that comes out of it, and God helps us to find that too. Jesus will sit with the table with any and all of us. He doesn’t force us to stay. When people don’t want Jesus or God in their life they are free to choose that. A misunderstanding is to expect grace, protection or understanding if they have walked away. We aren’t punished much in this life, we do it on our own. Gods grace allows one to walk back to the table and have a seat at any time.
Keep strong. Dont forget that despite the evil in this world, God is full of justice, mercy and love. Justice said we broke His perfect law – causing the world’s previous perfection to be destroyed – and therefore we deserve Hell (like a punishment in any legal system but this is eternal as His perfect law is eternal too). Don’t think you fit in that category? Ever done one of these?: lying, stealing – regardless of how small the object EVER, hating others – which is murder in God’s perfect law, lusting (plus God sees our entire thought life). Justice says “the soul that sins shall die” – if we break one in thought/word/deed it’s as if we’re guilty of all of them. Quite simply, living by the law (which is doing everything perfectly) is impossible for sinful humans . The law shows us that 1. We will die in Hell if we fail to follow it and 2. We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God’s perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn’t and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom. If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us into His image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life.
I really liked the inclusion of science to show that Christians can and should also be intelligent AND that science is not a contradiction of God, but supports God’s creation. I was expecting her to use the illustration that to also show that it is very difficult to trust the first time. But, after more and more examples, it gets easier and easier to trust. True with this experiment and true when serving God as well.
That’s the worst analogy I’ve ever heard. You failed before you even started. Trust or lack of trust in you or anyone else for that matter is earned through repeated demonstration, through your actions. If you make a promise and follow through on that promise you demonstrate that you can be trusted and the more you do that the more people will continue to trust you in the future. This demonstration of trust is called evidence. With God however there is no evidence that he even exists let alone that he can be trusted. You’re asking me to trust someone of which you can’t even prove exists. In your own experiment I wouldn’t trust that bag to hold water if you poke a hole in it because I expect the water to leak out through the hole. However once you put the pencil into the bag I don’t need to trust anything, I can clearly see that the bag is not leaking. Once you actually do it, you’ve demonstrated how it works with irrefutable evidence, no act of trust even required. The only point at which I have to trust you and take you at your word is before you demonstrate it. That’s how science works, through easily demonstrated and verifiable evidence. You can’t demonstrate or verify God and that’s why your analogy fails. If I do the same experiment you did and hold the bag over your head would you trust you’re not going to get wet? If you poke the pencil all the way through it blocks the hole it just created so it doesn’t leak out but I didn’t know you were going to do that. I thought you were going to poke a hole in the bag and pull the pencil back out which if you did that the water would leak out and you will get wet.
I believe it is much easier for children to trust God especially when they have loving parents while it is much harder for adults to trust God because adults mainly independent when trust to God is trust the child to Papa! Jesus said, “Relax adults and be like a child who depends on parents and never be stressful and be absent from their reality always thinking what I am going to eat or what I am going to wear, however, just play and play – enjoy their life!” Unfortunately, most of adult Christians have serious problems to receive something from God by faith because they tend to do everything by themselves and trust the doctors, the lawyer etc more than Father! Maybe one day it will become mainstream when children in churches would have a specific time to teach adults how to play and trust parents! We’ve been taught in churches for so long how to be self-reliable people forgeting that we are never be adult in this sense to God ! We will forever be small chicken to Father!
Good stuff. We home schooled and we did stuff like this with our kids. I remember having each child squeezing out a tube of toothpaste and seening If my kids can get it back in the tube and then of course they couldn’t. And I told them that when you speak hurtful words you can’t take them back… just like the toothpaste.
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This does not prove in any kind of way that god exists. “Do you trust me not to get you wet if i poke a hole through this bag of water with a pencil?” “No.” pokes hole in bag of water with pencil then explains with science how you dont get wet “Do you trust me now to do it again?” “Yes, you have scientifically proved and explained how it works.” You have shown no tangible or scientific evidence that god is real.
hmmm… OK….. PAY ATTENTION KIDS, Let’s do a walkthrough “it’s hard for kids and adults to trust AN INVISIBLE god” ANSWER : You don’t need to. You see, Since INVISIBLE just means you can’t see god, but.. it also means he’s still there that just the same as saying we can’t see U.V. Light so….. GET OUT YOUR PHONE CAMERA and see it through your phone camera or… You could get a heat detection camera and view god through his heat signature or… You could get a proximity sensor or density sensor or Dopler Sensor Basically.. Just because you can’t see him doesn’t mean jack. You can get instrumentation that can detect him IF HE IS THERE so… No it’s not really that hard to trust it if he’s invisible, I mean you always have… Throw a bucket of pain on him to reveal his shape. See. Christians have this simplistic and very uneducated point of view, that being… if something is invisible, it’s not there they give an example like…… the wind is invisible well No not really, but let’s say it is… but we still have an anemometer, but then you could also hold up a piece of paper to tissue in the wind. You need to be really dumb to say that since it’s invisible, we have no way to detect it now.. DO YOU TRUST ME ? DO YOU TRUST THAT I WON’T SPILL THIS BAG OF WATER ON YOUR HEAD ANSWER : The smart person would say “well you don’t need to hold it over my head, You can just go to the sink and show me the same thing” But let’s examine that question “DO YOU STILL TRUST ME ?” well, here are the facts – The child is standing there – YOU ARE STANDING THERE – The child can see you – The child knows you – YOU HAVE A DEMONSTRATED HISTORY OF NOT HURTING THE CHILD so.
Pull the pencil out lady – God does that all the time. Trust me – my life is full of holes that God poked and removed the pencil. I’m soaked…and he does not feel sorry about hurting people that way. And begging for forgiveness doesn’t work either. He only forgives who he wants, when he wants. I used to be a “Christian” until I really began to read the bible… Please explain this and maybe I will believe again: Exodus 7:3 and Exodus 14:4 – God made Pharaoh do something “bad” and then punished Pharaoh (and the whole Egyptian army) – how is that a loving and forgiving God? If he can make people do whatever he wants, then we really have no free will. I also have an issue with Genesis 1-3. Chapter 2 does not fit. Anyway – good luck with your kids.
“Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 KJV christian women, follow the 10 commandments and teach your children to do so. •Be set apart from the world. Don’t teach them the ways of the world->🎄 Jeremiah 10; 2 Kings 17; Mark 7:9 ^ something from God wouldn’t be rooted in teaching kids to lie and covet •Flee from common idolatry (also spiritual adultery) like Isaiah 44:13 •Be a good example and don’t conform to covetousness like makeup or loving materialistic things-> 1 Tim. 2 & Matthew 6:19-21 •teach them what loving your neighbor is-> Lev. 19:17-18; 2 Tim. 4; James 2 (the royal law) •and to not lie or gossip Exodus 20 •to remember the sabbath when many forgot (sat. sunrise to sun. sunrise) v Daniel 9:27-> Matthew 12:40-> Matthew 28:1 Day beginning at dawn-> Jonah 4:7 & Lament. 3:22-23 •to love God is to follow His commandments-> 1 John 5:3 “Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.” Revelation 22:14-15 KJV “And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.” Acts 5:32 KJV
I cried when I watched the experiment…. God is the plastic bag… We are the water inside Him. No matter what happen, He will be there to protect us… He took all to Himself on the cross… And He’s still doing it right now. With Him we’ll always save, no matter how bad the situations are. So believe in Him, abide in Him. Thank you so much for the article! God bless you!
Well, that is a fun little quasi-lesson for kids. But, let’s assume you are right, and God will NEVER stop being your friend. Object lesson: suppose YOU are the victim of a car jacking, rape, mugging, etc. (substitute any of a million scenarios if you prefer). Your friend whom you trust your life with stands by and watches, but doesn’t do anything to help, but has the power and ability to STOP you from being victimized, possibly even killed, but does nothing. HOW LONG do YOU think YOUR trust and friendship is going to last? POINT of LESSON: WHO is truly your friend? Whose “friend” are YOU?
It’s hard for kids to trust an invisible unknowable God, in fact it’s hard for ADULTS to trust an invisible, unknowable God. So here’s an exercise to subvert your child’s natural inclination towards critical thought and help indoctrinate them into trusting an invisible, unknowable God” – Bedtime Devo Mama Dope. Awesome. Absolutely love it. I have one question for clarity. Which God?
That depends on what one is “… trusting God …” for. You proved that trusting you, in that situation, was true. But, that doesn’t prove that “… trusting God …” is always going to get what you are ‘… trusting Him …” for. God does not work in the way that people have been taught / led to believe, nor in the way they may want / wish / hope / desire the He should work. I had two brother-in-laws who were wild & crazy. They had no interest in getting married or having children. My father-in-law firmly trusted that God would provide wives for them and that he would have grandchildren from them. Well, my father-in-law passed away 14 years ago, without seeing his sons marry and not having any grandchildren from them. Since then, one has since passed away without getting married, and the surviving one is still wild & crazy, with no interest in getting married. This is only one example I have, of many instances in their lives, as well as the lives of other, where “God” was trusted to do / provide something and it failed to happen / materialize.
Nice article, Mama. If you trust in God, you’ll want to get wet! “He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; he who does not believe shall be condemned (Mk 16:15,16; see also Mt. 28:19) and “corresponding to that (i.e., Noah’s ark carried through the flood) baptism now saves you” (1 Pet 3:16). Belief, confession, repentance and baptism are how one enters the kingdom, the Lord’s church (Acts 2:38).
The experiment shows that we can trust science. You never proved that we can trust God, or even that he exists… Instead of teaching your kids to trust God and that “he’ll always be there for them”, why won’t you teach them to trust themselves (and even when they fall – they can always get up again)? I think this is a far better message…
Such a good object lesson. Sometimes it’s very hard to “walk by faith and not by sight.” Bottom lime, Life is very hard. Jesus knew this and taught that “in this world, we WOULD have tribulations, troubles, and trials, but, be of good cheer, in other words, don’t worry, you are not alone. I will be there to help you when you have to walk through hard times, for I have overcome the world. So when we do face problems, know that He sees, and He is there. Call out to him and he will help you through those hard times. Thank you for the object lesson.❤️✝️🙏
Nice article. But it only work for small kids. As an 59 year old adult I see that you proved that I put my trust in science (which I do). But this does not prove that I can trust God (unless God is science and science is God). Also as an 59 year old adult my experiences show that God (if he/she/it/they/them/… really exists) has a very, very bad black humor and if you are extremely lucky, maybe (only maybe) you can look back after 10 years or so and start laughing about what happened to you. So what concerns me, personally, I‘d rather trust in Murphy‘s laws than in God. Greetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Sorry but you started off on the wrong foot girl. God is NOT an invisible God. His work, His creation is all around us, and clearly visible. Many people who mock God, and mock Christians call God the big invisible man in the sky, or something like that. So please do not go around calling our creator the invisible God.
Gospel of Thomas says,theirs 5 trees in Paradise who ever knows them will not taste death,these 5 trees are Persons,it’s Methaphors 1. Palm tree – Father 2. Apple tree or Grapes – Mother 3. Pomegranate tree – Bride 4. Olive tree – Jesus 5. Fig tree – self House Haggia 2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you. Joel 1:12 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men. Nenimah 8:15 Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths (houses), as it is written. The bible is Methaphors Mary Magdalena taught Gnostic teachings in France if this is true why ain’t we?,5 trees in Paradise in Gospel Thomas sayings,their in the bible
Who is this “God” you speak of? Is it one of the ancient Middle East animal sacrifice gods? Is it instead some hitherto undescribed deity which is above the level of ancient Mid-East family, municipal and national deities? Because if you’re talking about the family deity of a Sumerian named Abraham, I don’t think it would be appropriate to discuss that particular non-physical entity with children. It would be less traumatizing to discuss Sauron from Lord of The Rings.
Great lesson. Do you also add the personal touch, emphasizing the importance of involving God in this more than intellectually? We did that in homeschooling our 8 arrows, and it makes a lifelong difference! (You make a common mistake, a Darwinian influence equating “brain” and “mind.” Write me if you’d like a Scriptural explanation.)
The way you explain the polymer makes it so much more complicated than it has to be, you’re trying to hard to sound smarter. The bag is made of a flexible material kinda like a balloon but not as much so, and this lets the bag stretch around the pencil. If that story is to explain God’s existence in your life, then what it’s saying is that God, the entity that somehow managed to create the entire universe, is gonna stay with you like a good friend and comfort you through the pain and grief, BUT he won’t do anything to stop the bad things from happening, even though he KNOWS they’re going to happen. Some friend. Lastly, that object lesson is simply demonstrating trust, and you throwing God’s name in there can be done with literally any trust test. Take a trust fall for example. In life, you’re going to fall down, you’re going to fail over and over again, but you can always trust God to catch you. We all know that’s a load of nonsense though, don’t we? What are you putting your trust in God for if all he’s doing is hovering over you not actually doing anything about your life? What exactly are you trusting him with, your emotional well being? Or just that you will have a place in Heaven? OH Yes god I know that my life fucking sucks right now, my parents are drug addicts and have neglected me all my life and I have to take care of my two younger siblings myself despite being only 9 years old myself, but YES I trust in you to save a seat for me within your pearly white gates when I get into my parents’ stash thinking it’s sugar and overdose and die!
The Bible was written down by sinners, it says so in the book that all man sins, then sinner’s removed some of the books that were written, you can’t believe any of it. Removing the books it’s called censoring, it’s also where the victors write the history. After many years of gaslighting from the book, the people who tried to get me away from Catholicism actually got me away from God completely. Thank you Bible thumpers. You made me question everything because you were so convinced that your book was right. 😂 🤦♀️ Experiments like this also help me see the light, that the book is meant to teach ideas, but the idea that Jesus was God or the son of God, that’s not one of them.
So, wait, you’re God and the bag is…no, God is a polymer and you’re a pencil, and…hold on, no, the water is life and when you’re over your head, you can trust God won’t make you wet. No, that doesn’t seem right, either…um, …maybe it’s that God makes it rain except when you hold pencil over your head and that’s science because…oh, shoot!
How many Christians who are patiently waiting for your saviour to appear get irate and angry waiting for a light to change, or a long queue at the shops, or get aggrieved with someone else behaviour. All seems a bit hypocritical to me. 2000 years you’ve wait waited while world crashes…. And still no signs yet???
I really like your article, and the example of trusting God! On a sidenote, I would recommend changing your profile picture because the current one looks like AI and it’s not as personal as your articles are coming off as and I feel like if you changed it to a picture of you smiling, your subscribers would increase because you would come off as trustworthy and real. Just a thought I felt led to share to help. 😊 I wish you the best with your articles about Jesus!
This is cute and interesting but it’s not what they need. When I was a kid we learned from scripture. Scripture is the real thing. Not science. Your teaching them to remember science. Science won’t save them. The word of God us useful… in all things. Teach them to rely on the Word of the Lord before anything else.
You have to qualify the statement that “god will never stop being your friend”. That isn’t true. God loves us, always, and so much so that he offers us a path to salvation while we’re on earth so that we can avoid his wrath. Think about that for a minute. That means he’s our father, and our creator. He is not our friend. In fact, to gain access to eternal life we need to follow the angel of the lord, Jesus. I’ll paraphrase all of that for you. The gospel is easy, God, man, Christ, response. Teach your children to believe and receive Jesus. Jesus is our friend, if we follow him. If you deny him he has been known to walk away.
It’s fine to trust God, but not for things God never promised. If you go thru life trusting God that nothing bad will ever happen to you, you’re going to be disappointed, because God never promised that. The real God sees the little sparrow fall, and that same God lets little sparrows fall. You deserve to know the whole God before you place your trust.
So, this is a false analogy fallacy. You see, we have demonstrable evidence for the existence of water, pencils, and polymer based bags. The existence of a god or gods has never been demonstrated. This is in no way analogous. Anyone who uses this as an example of trusting in their particular god is employing fallacious reasoning.
That was such a cool little lesson. I have been trying to figure out ways to introduce God to my grand kids. They are 3 and 5 and are very challenging when it comes to teaching them anything because of their difficult past with a narcissist father and a mother who was abused by him. I’m glad I stumbled across this article as I been asking the Lord for direction. Thanks for such a cool and fun lesson they would love. I will search your website for other information. Peace.
It’s called perspective. Take anything bad and change the way you look at it. Humans justify anything to keep moving forward to or to assume control of the situation aka life. We have no control over what happens. Whatever happens we just have to deal with it, make sense of it, create a narrative and if we don’t like it we can change the narrative.
I really liked the science lesson and may verify it, but that has nothing to do with trusting God. I don’t know if God exists, but from what I know, if there is a god, then God left us on are own. We were given freewill and left on our own to succeed or fail. God does not interfere with our daily lives, that would negate freewill. But if you treat others as you want to be treated, then life is much simpler. I could give a lecture on the subject, but I’d be wasting my time. I leave you with this “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” That is all really you need to know.
I hate to be the one to say this. But for children to learn trust in God requires them to trust their parents and for their parents to live a life setting a good example. If you are a parent and worried about your child or children growing up to be one of those cynical agnostics or athiests, then you need to be able to show a good moral example and not rely on doing as you say and not as you do. Most young people that turn away from God do so because their parents, family, or friends of family were hypocritical or forced their children into a set of beliefs and rituals that had less to do with God and more to do with their own egos. Telling them to follow a book and not giving context or a relatable reasoning is the wrong thing to do. Especially when said parents haven’t read it front to back and require someone else to explain it to them. Honesty is the best way to handle questions, even explaining that you don’t know yourself on topics you don’t have an answer for. That’s being a good parent. Being a great parent would be finding out answers they don’t know, or at least trying to figure them out. And never refuse to talk about topics a child brings up. That is how you instill trust. Who wants to trust an authority figure that simply states do as I say? We look down on governments that do that to our people. Same applies to parents there.
The problem with your analogy is obviously that god is not the polymer bag. He is not the one that get’s poked. We are those getting poked. We are the bag. If god is active anywhere in the analogy, he is the one doing the poking. Or he is passively standing by, perusal us getting poked. We are the ones that need to adjust. The ones that need to close the gaps before we burst. The problem is: not everyone of us is made from polymer. In the end, it is not about trusting god, it is about trusting ourselves. By that I do not mean that trusting god is irrelevant. Trusting god might help some people to trust themselves, so trusting god is important for those. But it is only a factor in a great equation and not its center piece.
“trusting me in this moment makes no sense!’ … without an understanding of the very simple scientific explanation for why you didnt get wet Don’t get me wrong, it’s at the very least an excellent demonstration of how there are things which exist beyond our understanding in general. I just worry about the precedent it sets here when the lesson is ultimately that in many cases the things outside our understanding are just scientific principles
What a nonsense. She’s speaking about science, showing something that we can study and get knowledge about and then compare that to some god, which you can’t study. In that case you can trust someone, when he tolds you to do so, because he is sure that nothing wrong will happen. He has a knowledge that has been tested and has proven evidence. In case of gods – no, that does not work like that. Wow. That argument is invalid.
It does make a lot of sense. More indoctrination of the young is never a good thing, look where it took us over 2000 years of indoctrination we keep being out of harmony with ecosystem… Yes we are looking for stories, bedtime stories for kids and adults, about someone who is responsible for everything seems to comfort us so much.
They asked a stoic : who is this invisible god you are talking about? He said, god is whom you are calling for help when you are going to drown.god is invisible to your eyes because god is everywhere and if you could see it then you couldn’t see anything else, you can see it in your heart and in your mind
How does this demonstration resolve reasonable skepticism is regard to divine hiddenness? Because my Momma tells me so? Luckily, your children won’t have access to YouTube as they grow up. Or, they might stumble on other information that demonstrates you were patronizing them, and filling their heads with easily dismissible fallacies about a “Visible God”. Poor kids, all their trust in God in vain, because of you.
That was the MOST AMAZING EXPERIMENT of TRUST, I’ve ever seen! This IS how you know GOD travels everywhere, to everyone and INSPIRES many people to do AMAZING things, such as……THIS ONE! Great Job! (I never had a Mom, I’m a stolen fetus abduction case.) But MOMS like you are VERY necessary! 👏👏👏🥰💐💐💐🏆🫶😇
I dont know why i was even recommended this article. I was forced into christianity and many times even abused physically in the name of god. Even stripped to my underwear and made to memorise the bible. And they still dont feel they are wrong. How do i still even trust a god i cant see when they claim to love him and not me, the son that they can see
I will get back with why we face trials. Let’s start with Love. If a stranger were to tell you, “I love you,” you wouldn’t believe it. In fact, you would be creeped out. But if someone you know performs a loving act (always being there for you, interceding for you during threats or danger) then you’d believe right? Love must be tested! Well this is why we face trials. We have people driven by a demon inspired mindset (lust, pride) who rise against us with the intent of taking advantage of us or harming us. They will do their absolute best to bring their actions to pass. All lot of these people are protected by the government. In the 1560 Geneva Bible, Ephesians 6:12 it says we fight against the governors of this world. That being said, we can no longer rely on ourselves to overcome these encounters. This is when God comes in. To us it seems impossible but to the Almighty Righteous Yeshua Hamashiach, nothing is impossible. The moment you put your trust in him, he through his Grace and Mighty Judgment will bring all nations to complete surrender. Then you will know what true love is!!!!
Now if you had an invisible baggie, invisible pencils, and invisible water and you put the on a table far away from you — THAT would be analogous to God. I’m pretty sure even this young lady would not trust that the pencils would poke through the baggie by themselves or by an invisible force that promised it would in the future. I did enjoy the fable (story). It did point out that the bible also has made-up stories that aren’t true (just like owls making an insect into a pet) She also mentions that God doesn’t always stop bad things from happening. My take on that is that one shouldn’t count on God when you need Him the most. But remember that God frequently needs excuses just as we do.
Not trying to be negative. But I’m a little confused. So the pencils are the bad things that could (potentially) happen to us. But we’re still supposed to trust God that, despite all the ‘pencils,’ we still won’t get wet . . . With the ‘water.’ But what is the ‘water’? Isn’t the ‘water’ the same thing as the ‘pencils’? Because if the point is that we should trust God despite bad things happening to us, okay; totally agree. But we still might get wet . . . Whatever that means. Take the book of Job. Really bad things happened to him. And we have insight into the backdrop of events regrading why these things are happening. And in the end, everything seems to work out for Job just fine because he still trusted God. But not everything works out for us like it did for Job. In the final analysis things work out for us, but they might not—and often times do not—in this life. I do like how you mentioned in the en (certainly in passing) that God still allows bad things to happen to us. So thank you for that. Just wish that could have been elaborated on . . .
“God will never give you more than you can handle” tell that to every suicide victim. I trusted God, and believed it was always with me till I realized that belief and trust did nothing but leave me looking like and feeling like a fool, over and over again. Believing in that is just another way of saying you have hope, but hope doesn’t change anything, ever
My granddaughter in kindergarten learned this in school one day. She come home gathered a baggie, a pencil, filled the baggie with water and stuck a pencil through it. Walked up to me setting at the kitchen table and said look. I just started laughing, and still impressed she did all that on her own without saying a word.