Wintery Knight isn’t the sharpest knife when it comes to apologists. But he did get one thing right.
“We should do a better job of that to set expectations. People grow up thinking God’s job us to make them happy and popular.”
Yep, they have to manage expectations since their god fails despite its promises.
13 No testing has overtaken you that is not common to everyone. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength, but with the testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it.” 1 corinthians 10
” 6 Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Phillipians 4
“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit.” Psalms 34
22 He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25 And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? 26 If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith! 29 And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying. 30 For it is the nations of the world that strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, strive for his[f] kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well. – Luke 12
“2 Very truly, I tell you, the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact, will do greater works than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If in my name you ask me[e] for anything, I will do it.” John 14 and in John 15 “10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. 11 I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.”
7 “Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? 10 Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a snake? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” Matthew 7
Oh ye of little faith. Tsk.
Club Schadenfreude 
That raven analogy is a joke right? Ravens just sit around waiting for food to come to them? Or do they seek it?
Of course trying to make any sense from a nonsensical fairy tale isn’t exactly a worthwhile endeavor. Might as well be fishing in a dry pond.
All of those passages sound like some cheap ass online self help book for people too ignorant to not shit the bed.
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indeed. it shows that these idiots who wrote the bible couldn’t just look at a bird and see what it does.
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If I may share a thought? About the ravens? I always thought the point of that was not that one should not seek food (the birds do), but that life shouldn’t become an obsession with having a store for the future (which whatever is the case with woodpeckers, ravens don’t as far as I have been able to observe).
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Raina, the verse about the ravens is promising that this god will take care of its followers as good it supposedly does for as the ravens e.g. “and yet God feeds them”. Unsurprisingly, this god does nothing at all. It feeds no one, it clothes no one, it helps no one. We are “given” nothing. We all must work for it or others mus. The promise Jesus makes is false.
“2 He said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! 25 And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life? 26 If then you are not able to do so small a thing as that, why do you worry about the rest? 27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. 28 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you—you of little faith! 29 And do not keep striving for what you are to eat and what you are to drink, and do not keep worrying. 30 For it is the nations of the world that strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them. 31 Instead, strive for his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.”
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