Nebuchadnezzar: The Four Captive Children
Thoughts
In this week, I have read the Bible. I don’t know why Nebuchadnezzar treated the captive children so kingly. What’s more, I can’t understand why the four captive children refused the meat and wine from king’s table. What makes me feel ridiculous is that the four children who just ate vegetables and water became fatter and fairer than all the others who ate portions from the king’s table. Biologically, we must eat meat to give us enough energy to make us grow up healthily. So I do not believe that people who never eat meat can grow up fatter and stronger than those people who eat meat. It is also unbelievable that the four children, who were thrown into a fiery furnace, can survive because of their God. Until now, I doubt the existence
of God, because I never see God.
In the Bible, God exists, I know. I can’t understand why God drives out king Nebuchadnezzar just because his heart had not been made humble. I think God can’t be mean enough. On the other hand, I found God likes to force people do something they don’t want to do. In the bible, the Lord wished to send Jonah to warn a great city in Assyria to repent of their sins, but Jonah did not wish to go and escape. In order to change the mind of Jonah, God even would kill the people in the same ship. In order to teach Jonah and other people ‘‘nothing is impossible with God ’’, God killed and then saved Jonah. I find it is strange that when the Lord saw that people turned away from their sins, for He could look into their hearts, and read their thoughts, He was satisfied. Because God can see people’s thoughts, he becomes satisfied and does not destroy Nineveh. I want to ask why God wants to see people’s thoughts? In a word, it is really hard to understand God.
In this week, I have read the Bible. I don’t know why Nebuchadnezzar treated the captive children so kingly. What’s more, I can’t understand why the four captive children refused the meat and wine from king’s table. What makes me feel ridiculous is that the four children who just ate vegetables and water became fatter and fairer than all the others who ate portions from the king’s table. Biologically, we must eat meat to give us enough energy to make us grow up healthily. So I do not believe that people who never eat meat can grow up fatter and stronger than those people who eat meat. It is also unbelievable that the four children, who were thrown into a fiery furnace, can survive because of their God. Until now, I doubt the existence
of God, because I never see God.
In the Bible, God exists, I know. I can’t understand why God drives out king Nebuchadnezzar just because his heart had not been made humble. I think God can’t be mean enough. On the other hand, I found God likes to force people do something they don’t want to do. In the bible, the Lord wished to send Jonah to warn a great city in Assyria to repent of their sins, but Jonah did not wish to go and escape. In order to change the mind of Jonah, God even would kill the people in the same ship. In order to teach Jonah and other people ‘‘nothing is impossible with God ’’, God killed and then saved Jonah. I find it is strange that when the Lord saw that people turned away from their sins, for He could look into their hearts, and read their thoughts, He was satisfied. Because God can see people’s thoughts, he becomes satisfied and does not destroy Nineveh. I want to ask why God wants to see people’s thoughts? In a word, it is really hard to understand God.