Most frivolous lawsuit ever …

A Nebraska state senator is filing a lawsuit against God.It’s supposedly some kind of a stunt to highlight the problem of frivolous lawsuits. The way the complaint is worded, it also highlights a fundamental problem in human thinking — the idea that we have any business telling God the way the world should be working. He complains of terrible threats that God makes against humanity, of killing without remorse, and other prattle

To argue this case, I cite only Job 38-42. If you need to look that up, feel free to use the link to Bible Gateway down on the side.

To sum it up very quickly, I choose a few verses (all taken from the NIV):

Job 38:2-5 “Who is this that darkens My counsel with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me. Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell Me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?”

Job 40:8 “Would you discredit My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?”

Job 40:11 “Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to Me.”

I know … this isn’t Sen. Chambers’ plan. He doesn’t really plan to make this case, he just wants to prove how stupid it is. My problem is, he made these charges against God, whether he was kidding or not.

Moreover, there are people who do make these kinds of arguments. They hold it against God that bad things happen in the world. It is important to know that it’s God’s world. Nothing happens without His will … and when we think He’s out of line or when we think He isn’t fair, or when we think He’s done us wrong, what that means is that we need to take some time and reassess our own priorities. Something is wrong with how we’re seeing the world, and we need to get our hearts in line with His.