Never thank God.
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speaking from a deterministic perspective, wouldn't thanking god be the same as praising that factors outside your and everyone's control aligned to allow you to do whatever you're thankful happened? I mean, like "thank God that bus stopped when it did it would have crushed me" you don't say "thank strong Frictional forces" God is to some what Luck is to others. Luck isn't forces or anything that a human element has control of. - Furthermore, using the lords name in vain is a sin. I don't know if that includes falsely attributing "miracles" however. Side: Disagree
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This is dumb, thanking God does not exclude thanking people He gave the ability to help. There are some people who like to help me, and I thank God for them and I thank them for what they do. I dove into an overturned minivan with four people hanging upside down from seat belts in fear that the thing might burst into flames and I would have to stand there watching. I got them all out, and guess who they thanked when they were all four standing together safe....guess who they thanked. I'll tell you who I thanked....I thanked God for giving me the ability to get in there and get those people out. Here's a description of people who thank God for nothing..... . ..........the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. Side: Disagree
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Saintnow, If you want to thank God you should at least do it in the manner that God layed out chapter after chapter. here is one of the many Leviticus 7 Likewise this is the law of the trespass offering: it is most holy. 2 In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar. 3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the inwards, 4 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away: 5 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a trespass offering. 6 Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy. 7 As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it. 8 And the priest that offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered. 9 And all the meat offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the fryingpan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it. 10 And every meat offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as much as another. 11 And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the Lord. 12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried. 13 Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings. 14 And of it he shall offer one out of the whole oblation for an heave offering unto the Lord, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the peace offerings. 15 And the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the morning. 16 But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten: 17 But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire. 18 And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity. 19 And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof. 20 But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. 21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the Lord, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. 22 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 23 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat. 24 And the fat of the beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with beasts, may be used in any other use: but ye shall in no wise eat of it. 25 For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people. 26 Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings. 27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people. 28 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the Lord shall bring his oblation unto the Lord of the sacrifice of his peace offerings. 30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the Lord. 31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'. 32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings. 33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat, shall have the right shoulder for his part. 34 For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel. 35 This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the Lord in the priest's office; 36 Which the Lord commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations. 37 This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings; Side: Agree
If you get into a car accident, don't thank God you didn't die from the impact, that credit goes to the car's designers. When the police and fire trucks arrive, don't thank God for their rescue, the servicemen are the ones who are sacrificing to save you. When the doctors stabilize you and get you on to a speedy recovery, again, do not thank God; thank centuries of medical advancement and progress administered by the hospital staff that helped you through. All of those things you mentioned actually point to God actually. Who was the one that did all of those things us, humans. And who created humans? God did. So it all goes back to God because without God we wouldn't have humans and without humans you wouldn't have the stuff we have today. So do thank God. Side: Disagree
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I have never heard of anybody getting offended when a person they are helping says "thank God for you". It's a blessing for anybody if you say thank God for them, and when somebody is being helped and the person is so grateful that they thank God for the person helping them...the person helping them feels honored.....I have never heard of anybody getting mad when a person in need of assistance thanks God for sending help when the help arrives. People generally like the idea that they are being used of God for good...anybody who has a problem with it has a problem and that's their problem...big problem of a bad attitude. Side: Disagree
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Why didn't god endow the black people of Africa with the organizing abilities of search and rescue and the healing powers of our medical professionals? Some 2000 babies die every day( two thousand babies every 24 hours) in Africa due to a range of illnesses most of which are induced by malnutrition. Should we all thank god for the death of these human beings whom god does not favour and therefore lets 100s of 1000s of them suffer a painful and lingering death every year? So, this begs the question, is god a racist? Side: Agree
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