Can God be trusted?

But I don’t think Paul taught anyone to oppose God, and I feel sure God is eternal and does not change. God established His doctrines and gave them to us in scripture and I feel sure scripture about what was is still true and is scripture about what is today.

Yet most Christians are opposed to this idea.

Well the discussion would be helped if you would put forward an example of Christians being opposed to the Idea..

When I post that God can be trusted to always remain the same, that God is and has always been eternal, I am laughed at and ridiculed. They ask if I believe in killing animals for blood and if I obey the 613 laws. They say that God even changed the laws that our earth is operated by and then they quote Paul.

Yes the laws changed:

Hebrews 7:12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.

If God changed the laws, God cannot be trusted not to change other things in our world. We are living in a world we cannot rely on at all, God is in control and is changeable not an eternal God at all.

If God changed the laws, God cannot be trusted not to change other things in our world. We are living in a world we cannot rely on at all, God is in control and is changeable not an eternal God at all.

If God changed the laws, God cannot be trusted not to change other things in our world. We are living in a world we cannot rely on at all, God is in control and is changeable not an eternal God at all.

If God changed the laws, God cannot be trusted not to change other things in our world. We are living in a world we cannot rely on at all, God is in control and is changeable not an eternal God at all.

When I post that God can be trusted to always remain the same, that God is and has always been eternal, I am laughed at and ridiculed. They ask if I believe in killing animals for blood and if I obey the 613 laws. They say that God even changed the laws that our earth is operated by and then they quote Paul.

I realize that at one time Paul had used his perception of God’s law to even cause people to be killed and after Paul met Christ to learn how wrong it was he was dedicated to teach others not to make that same mistake. But I don’t think Paul taught anyone to oppose God, and I feel sure God is eternal and does not change. God established His doctrines and gave them to us in scripture and I feel sure scripture about what was is still true and is scripture about what is today.

Yet most Christians are opposed to this idea. I hope you will all post why you think so, and how it is to live in a world created by a God that changes so is unpredictable. I should think it would be very frightening for if God changes, God can not be depended on.

So you reject Hebrews as canonical Scripture?

OK.

What other books do you reject?

You are not explaining our position that God has changed His principles, only pointed a wagging finger at me. Explain your position that God is a changeable God so you cannot rely on any one scripture, it can change at the whim of God. My study of scripture tells me I can rely on the Lord, that the principles of our creator is the same from creation until today.

Forget the finger pointing and explain yourself, OK?

Your thread would be more meaningful and helpful if it specified the issues that call God's trustworthiness into question for some Christians.
(1) Can God's OT revelation be trusted to apply to today?
Not necessarily because divine revelation is progressive. So you need to grasp how the NT nullifies, changes, or adopts various OT teachings. You might start with the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus alters standard teaching with the frequent phrase, "You have heard it said by men of old,...but I say unto you."

I answered: Thank you for answering with your position. You say God is progressive and that is a fancy way of saying that God changes. Can you trust that God's "progression" is dependable? My studies tell me God is eternal and is dependable with principles that I can rely on.

You said: (2) Can God be trusted to answer my needy prayers?
Not necessarily. I may not satisfy God's conditions for effective petitionary prayer. And I may not grasp God's will for my life. Read 2 Corinthians 12:6-20 and you'll see that God never removed Paul's "thorn in the flesh," despite 3 prayer sessions.

I answered: In my book God answers every single prayer, but I need to keep that prayer within the principles of God

You said: (3) Jesus taught us to address God as our heavenly Father. So can God be trusted to treat me exactly the way a loving Dad would?
Not always: "My thoughts are not your thoughts; nor are my ways your ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:8-9)." Whatever happens, we know that God loves us and has our best spiritual interests at heart.

(4) Can God be trusted to guarantee my safety when I drive or walk to my destination today?
(a) Not necessarily: "All are victims of time and chance (Ecclesiastes 9:11)." Yesterday I was almost run over as I began to cross a street at an intersection cross-walk. The driver floored it just as I began to cross in front of him and if I hadn't lunged backwards suddenly enough, I would have been run over.
(b) James the son of Zebedee and Peter were imprisoned by Herod for their faith at the same time (Acts 12:1-2). Christians prayed in Mary's house for their deliverance and Peter was delivered by angel with an earthquake, but James was executed. We don't know why Peter alone was spared.

Don't know which Christians you're referring to, I've only heard unbelievers make such foolish arguments. Why would you keep law? Did God make an old testament covenant with you?

Absolutely God made an "OT" covenant with me. The OT is scripture, the NT is scripture, there is no scripture that gives a different principle of God neither is there scripture that gives me lies. The God I know never, ever, takes a promise back for the God I know is eternal, the same always.

No offence, but this post and the above posts lack understanding.....the first covenant was designed to prove the guilt of man and points to the cure which is found in the second covenant of Grace and in Christ!......

Geesh......study the word and het aome understanding friend.....

Since you weren't alive back then, God absolutely did NOT make an o. t. covenant with you.