How to stand up for God in a situation like this?

You cant force people to believe as you do. Let their words be their words and their choices be their own. When people say stupid stuff, let them know that you are a believer and you would appreciate it if they would respect your beliefs. This is a two-way street tho. Pray for him, but dont force your beliefs on him. If you want respect, you must give respect. Be tolerant, be respectful, and if you have to- just walk away.

I think that what you need to do, is to understand that he isnt there…like he doesnt know… I think when your spiritual you feel a connection to God and to his creation, meaning people or nature …ext. But I’m not in any religion because I know God just wants me to be what he made me as and do the best I can to my abilities. Thats why he gave us them. So really life is actually simple…Be who you are and love what God has made. Mankind is all connected by emotion, love, and spirituality. If we are all connected if hurting somebody else in any way, is thus hurting ourselves. He is making you feel hurt for what you believe in and in turn though he hurts himself, and know he just isnt there yet, understanding this one simple view that love and happiness and knowing yourself is all you really need to live a good life.

I don’t know its a different thought but I just think

“why make urself sad?” “I just want to be happy.”

firstly- god soes not intend for you to defend him from stupidity-do you believe god made people naked because he found them sexually attractive? do you think God made monkeys and cows and horses,cats,dogs, and bears naked because he get’s excited looking at them?I mean maybe if he’d made us all born with butt plugs in and wearing latex fetish gear this statement could be taken seriously- obviously this was what passes for a joke, or the guy was just a damn fool. secondly, there are many interpretations of what a good person’s responsibility to the light are- to me, it seems unnecasary to defend God-can this man hurt god? can anyone? God made the idiots too, presumably for some reason. And that brings me to the third thing-we as mere mortals cannot hope to understand the motives of God “as high as the heavens are above the earth, so far above our ways-the ways of the lord. Do not feel as though you failed-your concern shows that you in favorable light, but you are still, I suspect, very young-as someone famous once said”there is more in heaven, and on earth, than is dreamt of your philosophy, Horatio” (something like that anyway)-Enjoy your life and treat people as well as you reasonably can-that’s what the lord wants from you. And may the love and peace of the Lord be with you.

Before I say anything, I’m just going to clarify that I am non religious and don’t have much of an interest in Christianity.

When your friend’s boyfriend mocked your religious beliefs, he was, in a disgusting and insensitive way, trying to be funny. That’s pretty much it. He’s very immature, and as you grow up, hopefully you’ll find your peers to be more open minded and respecting of others beliefs. I understand you feel bad about not standing up for God as your religion teaches you to, but ask yourself, what constitutes ‘standing up’ for God? What exactly do you have to do to prove that you love and defend God? Should you have jumped up right there, reading scripture and stabbing his eyes out in the name of the Lord? Sorry, I’m not trying to be funny, but no, I’m pretty sure that’s not what standing up for God means. I think you did an ok thing, I mean, I doubt you’re in serious spiritual trouble for laughing at a shockingly blasphemous idiot. Ask the leader of your church class what they think you should have done. I’m sure there are many other people that wouldn’t have known what to do or say in that situation either.

Well first of all, it seems that your friends boyfriend wasn’t really making an argument, it was a silly comment, don’t take it seriously. Honestly, if things like that bother you, you’re going to lead a very stressed out life. In this current age there are a lot of people who are going to stand out against your God, and in most cases it won’t be a silly quip about how he made people naked. You’re probably not going to be able to do anything about these people because a lot of them will intentionally provoke you (I was the same way) Just keep your head up and believe what you want to, just don’t preach it to people like that. Try and do it more respectfully, tell him you’re going to believe in what you believe in and you’d rather him not cut you down, in return don’t question their beliefs.

Your friend is being rather blunt, he may not be a religious individual but he doesn’t have to mock other people’s religion. I’m sure as understanding as God is, he knew about this. I’m not religious either but he is being very blunt for no given reason. I’m sure you can always ask for forgiveness if you really do feel bad about all of this.

As for your friend, this can get a bit tricky. You seem to have given him the queue that he can just offend god in front of you. Let him know that your a Catholic and that it bothers you that he disrespect your god. He should know his boundaries before trying to talk to you. I’m suspecting he is an atheist or agnostic, one of the two. One of the things with being either of these two is having an open and understanding mind, which he lacks.

If this persist then have your boyfriend talk to him, if not then don’t bother talking to him at all.

Hope this helps.

I have never understood why puny little humans think they need to defend a god they define as omnipotent. If he needs or even wants your defense, then he’s less powerful than you.

The best thing to do is to ignore stupidity. Continue to believe in GOD whole hearted and pray for your boyfriend. Pray that GOD to talk to his heart and open his eyes for him to see GOD’s righteousness.

it’d good theat you belive in god and religion, but there is a point when it starts to controll you and who you are and at this point it has nothing to do with god, Like in your situation you felt so bad and guilty about somethng small and pointless just because a group of people put it in your mind that you were suposed to, religion is suposed to make you a better person I don’t see how making you feel bad or starting am argument does that.

‘God’ didn’t make anybody naked. That’s how we’re born because who wants to give birth to a baby and an outfit? Your body doesnt produce clothing, what the frick? That’s just ridiculous. It’s hard to stand up for a being who there are no facts about and no one can prove exists. That’s a messed up thing for that teacher to ask of you. There’s not much you can do.

Seems like such a silly comment that it wasn’t worth the effort. It wasn’t a serious theological argument just a quip. If you feel the need to defend your faith from every comment anyone makes you will be very busy.

Yeah, god’s gonna get real embarrassed that some asinine teenager said that.

being naked is perfectly NORMAL. the human society is what made being naked in public and such a bad thing.

god isn’t real. there is no need to defend him.