Can God selectively bestow benefits of miracles in favor of His Believers/Devotees? Will it not be favoritism?

Question

I invite logical rather than religious answers please.

Answer 1

With superstition, logic goes out the window. It is a belief and therefor subject to each individual's givings and miss givings.

Answer 2

Obviously, you have never read the various scriptures of the various religions on this planet as they are all about god(s) playing favorites!

Haven't you heard of the "chosen people" which means that some are not chosen and thereby excluded.

They all become stories of "my god can beat up your god!"

The very idea that religion and the concept of god(s) is logical in illogical!

Answer 3

Yes, of course it would be, if it existed. I was actually going to write something longer but I think that's clear enough.

Answer 4

God can do what he likes.  Yes, that's favouritism, so what?

Answer 5

Only a false God would be this petty.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 6

Rather should you not be asking why a wise and loving Father would bestow his benefaction, favour and grace upon his adversaries, overt sinners and his hater’s.

He would maybe in a bout of kindness cure them of anger and ignorance and free the hapless haters from the h**l of their own ire, but it would not, does not seem seemly to be witnessed being charitable to those who openly rally against him.

Answer 7

Yes and Yes!

Answer 8

There is no question of God indulging in either favoritism or creating minor miracles selectively. His creation itself is the biggest miracle which so unexceptionably runs on auto without any need for any intervention whatsoever by any supreme power. Miracles are therefore Believers' myth which instead of glorifying God, in fact results in labeling God as a Dictator with double standards, violating own rules.  

Answer 9

Its difficult to request logic when dealing with spiritual/religious matters... but I believe that She bestows what She does to whomever in effort to benefit the greater good. The individual may see it as a special gift, and one who does not have it may see it as unfair that they don't, but it's not favoritism because its not given to solely benefit the receiver... but for them to use it to benefit everyone and everything else. They must not be taken selfishly.  

Answer 10

That God bestows anything beyond the laws of the universe is a myth.

When you work the laws of the universe, they work.

My Father works and I work.

Answer 11

As you mentioned "His Believers"----then know it: Believers are always trying to get God's FAVOR! And they do whatever they feel correct to get any favor of their God. That's the logic! You could better ask without mentioning "the Believers". Then it would be tough to answer your question without knowledge.

( By the way, do you accept, that God's "BLESSINGS" are God's "FAVOR" to His believers? So, no question of favorism/Nepotism arises.)  

Answer 12

God does not have favorites, we are all equal to him, if some make their lives rich and full it's because of education and hard work and others who don't make it because they didn't have the opportunity to get educated and get that chance to make a great life for themselves. God can guide us but he helps them who helps themselves.

Answer 13

Ok. If you are in a family of 4 or 5 siblings perhaps I can make myself clear with an analogy.

Parents give equal chance to all the kids. Food, education ,  support , healthcare ... anything . there is no discrimination or favouritsm. yet , all the children donot blossom the same way. Why should then we blame the parents?

The creator gives opportunities for all  and not just the human beings. Birds , animals, plants  trees..... Some are more thriving than the others. Tell me what grouse must God have had on the poor dinasours? Why did they disappear?  

Answer 14

I believe that God loves everyone equal.  He wants us to choose to follow him for the right reasons not because we will have good luck if we follow Him and bad luck if we don't.  He gives us what we need even though we do not always understand it or like it.  The christian life is not always easy because the devil will do what ever he can to disrupt our happiness.  Sometimes Christan's face challenges and persecution.  Sometimes Christains have to stand up for what they believe in even if it means hard times for them.

Answer 15

Yes it is favoritism.

The underlying question is whether giving a gift to one person and not to another is wrong.  The answer to this is "it depends."

If two people each deserve a gift from an individual, then for that person to withhold a gift from one of them is unjust.  However, if neither deserves a gift, the giver is not obligated in his actions; he can do whatever he wants with his possessions.  He can throw them away, he can keep them, he can give them to one or both; he doesn't violate any standard by being selective.

Answer 16

God is always fair.

simply.

love

Pluto

Answer 17

Below is a nice story which answers your question logically :

Yes, God can if He wants to. Whether it will be favoritism or not, you can answer it by yourself if you can answer these questions below :

"Will you believe that God's favorite  is the sinner who repents ? Who is not the sinner ?"

The Story of the Lost Son

....There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.' So he divided his property between them.  Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.  So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.  He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no-one gave him anything. When he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!  I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.  I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.'  So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.  The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.'  But the father said to his servants, 'Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.  Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate.  For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' So they began to celebrate.  Meanwhile, the older son was in the field. When he came near the house, he heard music and dancing.  So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on.  'Your brother has come,' he replied, 'and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.'  The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him.  But he answered his father, 'Look! All these years I've been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.  But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!'  'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.  But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.'

"I once was lost but now I am found, was blind but now I see"

Peace !

Answer 18

How can I answer a Spiritual question with logic rather than faith? Yet, I will try.

The answer of course is it can't happen. God, being by nature above such petty human emotions is with all equally. All is given to all. Yet, that being  said, perhaps it is the faith of the "Believers" that place them emotionally & mentally in a place to recognize & accept what has been given. If you have thrown the whole concept of faith & miracles out as a possibility, how can you possibly be in a place to accept them if they are given. In faith this is free will, in the science of consciousness it is simply you see & receive what you believe & not what you don't.

I did my best to answer with logic, I may have failed miserably. Either way, it is an aspect of the Truth, but only an aspect.

Thanks for allowing me to share, a very interesting Q.

Blessings!