Suing God

Did you read about the Nebraska state senator who is suing God to make a point about frivolous lawsuits?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20827350/

Your first reaction might be that God has infinite resources and could mount a perfect defense. But I think God would stay out of the details, as usual, and end up with a public defender. This presents the very real possibility that God could lose the case.

I sure hope it goes to trial. Imagine how interesting that would be. First, how do you select a jury of God’s peers? Compared to the Almighty, even Buddha is just a guy who should use the stairs more often. The entire jury would end up being doctors who sometimes play God, and arborists, who can, sort of, make a tree, if they have acorns. That’s the best you can do.

What happens when you call God to the stand? Does he have to take an oath and promise to tell the truth “so help me me”? I don’t see how that could be anything but awkward.

I think the judge would hold God in contempt because all of his answers would seem to be smart alecky.

Lawyer: “Where were you on the night of the tornado?”

God: “Um, everywhere. Same as always. Go to Hell. Seriously.”

God doesn’t use money, so you’d have to sue him for a small portion of his infinite powers. I’d take the power to heal and only use it on myself, so sick people aren’t always pestering me. That would be great during cold season. I’d never wash my hands again.

Me: “Cough, cough, COLD BE GONE! Aaaah, better.”

God’s public defender wouldn’t be able to claim his client didn’t perform the acts of God for which he is accused. I mean, they’re acts of God, ferchrissake. And the defender can’t prove his client wasn’t there. He’s everywhere. God has a well-documented history of smiting humans, the motive, and the opportunity. That’s a strong case.

The only defense that could work is insanity. The public defender would have to prove God is inconsistent in his thinking. You might think that argument is easy to make, but God would be good under cross-examination.

Lawyer: “Do you love people.”

God: “Yes.”

Lawyer: “Then why am I hung like a frozen caterpillar?”

God: “Well, I’m not wild about lawyers. But you said ‘people.’”

Comments

[Amyobala Key]

I doubt any judge would rule against Him on the basis that all of His actions are inscrutible, anyway. On the other hand, should he lose, which one of you would care to put the cuffs on?

[Mikey]

hung like a frozen caterpillar. that is solid gold. if there is a single person out there that can resist laughing at that line, they must not even be a 'moist' robot; just the run of the mill evil kind.

[N A]

Hmm... how about suing the Pope... after all, he's meant to be God's rep on Earth... ^o)...

[Brother Jim]

Holy writ! ?018God?019 files response to lawsuit
The mystery of one response to a lawsuit against God has been solved. Eric Perkins, an attorney in Corpus Christi, Texas, said Friday he filed a response to the lawsuit from Nebraska State Sen. Ernie Chambers. "It's kind of a turn on 'What would Jesus do?'" Perkins said. "I thought to myself, "What would God say?"

Here is a statement to article of above, that I wish I were attorney to reply to the Courts of Douglas County, Nebraska, and Eric Perkins and Senator Chambers.

As a Servant of the most High

Our Lord and Saviour

Yahshua, whom we call

Jesus Christ to him be Glory forever

Psalm 7:10 My defense is of God which saveth the upright in heart.

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob needs no defense of man reason is:

Psalm 50:12 If I were hungry I would not tell thee for the world is mine

and the fulness thereof.

Ezekiel 18:4 Behold all souls are mine as the soul of the father so also the

soul of the son is mine, the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

2 Peter 2:1 & 1 Corint. 7:23 Ye are bought with a price.

Psalm 89:11 The Heavens are thine, the earth also is thine: as for the world

and the fulness thereof, thou hast founded them.

As you can well see God is the owner of all things and yet he will answer

us.

Now concerning Attorney Eric Perkins you sir have spoken rather foolishly,

in saying what you think the God of heaven would say. No man knows

what God would or will say. Isaiah 55:8,9 my thoughts are not your thoughts

neither are your ways my ways. But we do know what he has already given

us by the word.

For surely no man would have thought or even presumed to say I know what

he is going to do, when he spat on the ground and made mud of the spittle

and anointed the blind man eyes for healing. John 9:6

Also this remark of men “What would Jesus do” is not of God and has no

spiritual benefit, what we should be saying is what Jesus did. Jesus never

said think on what I would do but instead he said follow me. (Meaning, what he has already done.) John 10:27,28 & Matt. 19:20

Now concerning senator Ernie Chambers, your statement in taking God to court is very unsound.(Romans 9:20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus?) Seeing your ignorance in whom you speak of, him I declare unto you.

In answering you I’ll be answering many who have similar thoughts concerning your question.

The Question you asked concerning these many dreadful things that have come upon us, the God of heaven has already answered all of us, in fact he forewarned all of us of these things which are written through out the Bible.

These are his Words:

Proverbs 21:31 Safety is of the Lord

Psalm 37:17-21 The Lord upholdeth the righteous

Psalm 34:7 The Lord deliverth them

Proverbs 1:33 Whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely and

shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Proverbs 2:21 The upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect

shall remain in it. But the wicked shall be cut off

from the earth and the transgressors shall be rooted

out of it.

Proverbs 19:23 Shall not be visited with evil

Proverbs 11:8 The righteous is delivered out of trouble.

Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents

and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy:

and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

These and many more scriptures tell us of the safety we have with God if

we obey him, and if we don’t then we have no protection at all.

Your Question why then these predicaments are upon us?

We are not following Gods outline in the word of God, and many do die but

the few that know his truth cannot die that death, except it be for the word of God (Isaiah 57:1 The righteous perisheth (die), and no man layeth it to heart: and the merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.)

Will we listen to the words of God? NO! Why, because we are going to tell God what he can do and cannot do and ask stupid questions of the Almighty

(Like you have done) which is no respecter of persons.

We talk about God and go to church with prejudice on our heart, teach our children the same message smiling at one another and thinking this is ok with God, when we have hatred towards one another. (1 John 3:15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murder hath eternal life (Jesus) abiding in him.) Now check this out, if you can’t hate how in the world you’re going to tell me it’s ok to kill. Here this also Matt. 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, thou shall love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy. But I (Jesus) say unto you love your enemies bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you.

These are the words of our Lord, do we care for such words, heck no. We

shoot our enemies we beat the dickens out of somebody for calling us a name or their indifference in color, and if someone does us injustice we retaliate with violence and then go to church claiming that injustice has been done to us and praising God. This is wrong. Psalm 11:5,6 the wicked and that loveth violence his soul hateth. vs.6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and an horrible tempest: this shall be his portion

of their cup. Luke 11:14 Do violence to no man.

We have disobeyed therefore we suffer the consequence, and we are without God.

Last but not the least is that we have taken the Ten Commandments of God and changed the Glory of the living God liken unto a man. God change not,

his righteousness is forever and cannot be changed or altered in any fashion,

and we have changed the fourth commandment of God by the speeches of men with no scripture to suffice such action other than what they think or

presume and we like what we hear. Again we have no God, but his mercy

abounds upon the land, no true safety that we can count on because we are in a lie.

Therefore your children die and their fathers in like manner, and we

say God was with them, which is of an untruth.

Amos 3:6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be

afraid? shall there be evil in the city, and the Lord hath not

done it?

Isaiah 45:7 I formed the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and

create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

Psalm 78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and

indignation, and trouble by sending evil angels among them.

Psalm 34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked and they that hate the righteous

shall be desolate.

Psalm 90:7 We are consumed by thine anger and by thy wrath are we

troubled.

YES!

These things that take place are commanded by the most high! Nothing moves without his authority, by his word.

Satan could not touch Job until God spoke the word and every word he spoke he limited Satan in his actions toward Job, he could not, and I repeat could not go beyond the word of God.

My advice to you senator is read Job 40:1-6 and follow Job’s actions.

A Servant of Christ our Lord.

Brother Jim (Fayetteville, NC)

Psalm 111:7, 8 His Commandments are done in truth.

(Definition of truth: Constancy, fidelity (accuracy in details: exactness)

I am not affiliated with any denomination but of the body of Christ our Lord.

[JC]

So I looked this up because my friend told me about it...and most of you are idiots...lets be for real. How can any of you post things about religion and the true story about the man sued god and all that. Everyone should be trying to make the Senator feel like a moron for doing this. Who let this man be a senator of a state is beyond me. Hes doing this because of frivolous lawsuits, which means lacking any serious purpose. This is a frivolous lawsuit. Its 2007 and people are trying to sue God. Grow up.

[kelley]

It seems to me that one cannot deny the existence of god when faced with this. not to say he exists as over-zealous christians dictate, but there is obviously a physical manifestation to the spiritual belief, so whether he exists due to his actual existence or whether he exists because man made it so seems to be the real issue in spirituality today.

BTW, what did he want from God anyways? If I were going to sue God, I'd do it for slander. Talking shit on Eve has all of us women stuck in as rut. But I guess you'd technically sue the people who wrote the bible, unless you consider the fact that it's his word to be a verbal contract.

[Teddy]

I think God needs to counter sue for discrimination against Gods. After all he is being singled out by his race. And if the senator is this case is found guilty he should have to sit in jail and flip a quarter until God lets them have 100 heads in a row. (the odds of this are 10^50) It would take A trillion Trillion years if you flipped the quarter 500 times a second.)

[Teddy]

I think God needs to counter sue for discrimination against Gods. After all he is being singled out by his race. And if the senator is this case is found guilty he should have to sit in jail and flip a quarter until God lets them have 100 heads in a row. (the odds of this are 10^50) It would take A trillion Trillion years if you flipped the quarter 500 times a second.)

[Darth Bubba]

I would file a motion to dismiss, and the entire text of the motion would be:
"Judge not, lest ye be judged." :)

[Mary]

I live in Nebraska. I have serious issues with the Senator who is suing God. There have been countersuits filed: At least two at this point. The best one in my mind being that the Douglas County Prosecutors don't have Jurisdiction in Heaven. Can you imagine THAT extradition hearing?!

What I think about it:
http://mommamary.blogspot.com/search/label/soapbox

Articles relating to countersuits for those who are interested:

http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/09/20/news/politics/doc46f30f0f0ae43737714059.txt

http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/09/20/opinion/editorial/doc46f1ab8e3317b039020396.txt

http://journalstar.com/articles/2007/09/21/news/nebraska/doc46f46bef20764396181985.txt

[Chief]

Today, my pastor preached about this very incident. The ironic thing is, so many have assumed the accuser is referring to God, the Alpha and Omega (beginning and End). Many can worship their own God forms; and it's apparent to me that he has no faith base -that's the problem. However, the one true God is in three forms (God the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit)! I would challenge the accuser to completely submit to Chirst. He may not receive the answer he might like, but I tell you that God will give him the answer he needs - Salvation through Jesus Christ! Don't be angry with the accuser, PRAY for him.

[Chief]

Today, my Pastor preached about this very incident. The ironic thing is, so many have assumed the accuser is referring to God, the Alpha and Omega (beginning and End). Many can worship their own God forms; and it's apparent to me that he has no faith base -that's the problem. However, the one true God is in three forms (God the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit)! I would challenge the accuser to completely submit to Jesus Christ. He may not receive the answer he might like, but I tell you that God will give him the answer he needs - Salvation through Jesus Christ! Don't be angry with the accuser, PRAY for him.

[Pokololo Jane]

WHO CARES!?.............HE GOT THE WORLD TALKING ABOUT "GOD".

"Ah, but who PUTS you in Hell? God"........I CAN ANSWER THIS QUESTION, I TAUGHT THIS TO MY CHILDREN FROM A VERY EARLY AGE............

POSITIVE ACTIONS/ POSITIVE REACTIONS = HEAVEN
NEGATIVE ACTIONS / NEGATIVE REACTIONS = HELL

HE (GOD) GAVE ALL THE POWER OF "FREE-WILL"........., SO!, WHO PUTS WHO IN HELL? WE PUT OURSELVES IN HELL!

JUST AS PEOPLE SAY,

" GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE / PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE"

SO........... GOD SAYS WHAT????

THINK ABOUT IT!, NEXT TIME YOU THINK IT'S GODS FAULT -
DID YOU MAYBE, KINDA, SORTA MAYBE MAKE THE WRONG CHOICE AND ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO BLAME?? DONT BLAME IM, INVITE HIM TO HELP YOU RIGHT THE WRONG!

HE IS GREAT AT THAT!

"ASK AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE"
"KNOCK AND IT SHALL BE OPENED"

TRY IT!

[Jon]

For the record the movie "The Man Who Sued God" was a true story. This chap was a farmer whose house was destroyed in a hurricane (I think) and his insurance company called it an act of God and refused to pay out.

The idea of taking God to court is actually quite logical - the court would either have to find that God was to blame (and force every established religion with holdings in Australia to chip in to pay for his house) or deam "act of God" to be no grounds for the insurance company for refusing to pay out (thus forcing them to) - that was the reason actually, to get the courts to force the insurance company to pay out.

Mind you suing God doesn't seem frivolous to me - if God exists, he has a lot to answer for.

[David MacMillan]

What would happen to God if He was put on trial? The same thing that happened last time.

~Presumed guilty (or, in this case, liable) unless proven innocent.
~Testified against by people who don't agree (I can just see it: "God made my wife leave me!" "No, you b-----d; I left you because you frickin' cheated on me!")
~Shuffled from court to superior court to inferior court in a slew of attempts to shift responsibility for making judgment
~Ultimately sentenced WITHOUT a conviction
~Punished for things that were the accusers' own damn fault.

Sound familiar?

[Val, the world's leading (OK, only) silly string theorist]

You think God would stay out of the details? I heard God is in the details!

[SueTHIS!!!]

LMAO, just what we need, another Liberal moron trying to make himself famous. What's next, dig up Moses and put him on the stand?

[SueTHIS!!!]

LMAO, who are they going to get to get on the stand to defend God? Lemme guess, they're going to dig up Moses and use him on the stand. Let's get real, even if trying to prove a point this is NOT the way to do it. Just another Liberal moron trying to make himself famous.

[420slp13]

he cant sue god . remember whitie separated church and state.

[Ramas]

God will never win a trial because all lawyers go straight to hell.

[Manuel Delgado]

Wasting taxpayer bucks in such a ridiculous effort should be a crime... and a sin.

[^Mo^]

Think there'll be more chance of a conviction if we band together and start a class action lawsuit?

[Ash]

Of course I'm not the first law student to say this, but I don't think any court has personal jurisdiction over God.

And I don't think anyone can assert a claim for which relief can be legally granted.

And even if they did, there's no way you'd be able to get a judgment enforced.

[Ankit]

LOL

[Verne]

Thanks to being tired, I read the bit after doctors playing god as, abortionists, wondered where you were going and then had a weird vision of abortionists trying to make trees. that's gonna get me for the rest of the day now, best not to ask why