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Originally Posted by Gary L
What about those who don't want to suffer and be subject to pain, who don't know how to ask for help? or those who might not know how, or don't want to ask for the help in stopping subjecting the pain?
To me it's all about if you don't ask you don't get. if you don't let him know that you think he's great he doesn't want to know and will ignore you.
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Who doesn't know how to help? God doesn't respond exclusively to the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer you know. Believe it or not he's pretty keen to talk whether or not you're a churchgoer or not.
Every child knows how to ask for and receive help. Getting help is something adults eventually choose not to do, not vice versa.
I'm not going to claim that the proper response by a human to God is anything other than, or less than, worship or adoration, but again, I think your view is a bit distorted. God isn't looking for worship as a precondition of anything. On the contrary, worship is the natural response that comes
after people realise who he is. He is quite happy to help people realise who he is without any preconditions, other than for them to be willing to listen and to learn.