How can god possibly protect us?

Question

In the bible, god couldn't prevail over iron chariots. How can god possibly defeat modern weaponry?

Judges 1:19: “So the Lord was with Judah. And they drove out the mountaineers, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the lowland, because they had chariots of iron.”

Answer 1

God protects those who are doing His will and need His protection.  When they are finished with what God has asked of them here...He brings them home.

When the people aren't doing what God has asked of them, he doesn't protect them at all.

When you understand that Death isn't something to fear, a lot of other things aren't so fearful either.

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Answer 2

It all depends on your place in line...

Answer 3

just the fact that you asket that question means jesus dont love you and you r going to burn in everlasting h**l!!!

Answer 4

because chuck norris told him to! along with edward cullen...

Answer 5

Scientific research and discoveries are the salvation of Mankind.

Answer 6

Because God has been developing anti-missile defense systems that he's placing on the Moon.

Answer 7

i know whenever i need help, he is there for me.

Answer 8

hes just saying he was with judah just like jehovah is with me now

he wasnt literally with us

but his power is

EVERYWHERE you look, there is suffering. Some people bring it on themselves. They contract sexually transmitted diseases or experience the effects of drug or alcohol abuse or of smoking. Or they may encounter health problems because of poor eating habits. However, much suffering results from factors or events beyond the control of the average person: war, ethnic violence, crime, poverty, famine, disease. Something else that humans basically cannot control is suffering related to aging and death.

The Bible assures us that "God is love." (1 John 4:8) Why, then, has a loving God allowed all this suffering to continue for so many centuries? When will he remedy the situation? To answer such questions, we need to examine God's purpose with regard to humans. This will help us to understand why God has allowed suffering and what he will do about it.

The Gift of Free Will

When God created the first human, he produced more than just a body with a brain. Further, God did not create Adam and Eve to be mindless robots. He implanted in them the faculty of free will. And that was a fine gift, for "God saw everything he had made and, look! it was very good." (Genesis 1:31) Yes, "perfect is his activity." (Deuteronomy 32:4) All of us appreciate this gift of free will because we do not want all our thoughts and actions dictated to us without ever having a choice in anything.

However, was the fine gift of free will to be used without limits? In directions given to early Christians, God's Word answers: "Be as free people, and yet holding your freedom, not as a blind for badness, but as slaves of God." (1 Peter 2:16) For the common good, there must be boundaries. Hence, free will was to be regulated by the rule of law. Otherwise, anarchy would result.

Whose Law?

Whose law was to determine the proper limits of freedom? The answer to this question has to do with the fundamental reason why God has permitted suffering. Since God created humans, he knows best what laws they need to obey for their own good and for the good of others. The Bible puts it this way: "I, Jehovah, am your God, the One teaching you to benefit yourself, the One causing you to tread in the way in which you should walk."—Isaiah 48:17.

Clearly, a vital point is this: Humans were not created to be independent of God. He made them in such a way that their success and happiness depend on obedience to his righteous laws. God's prophet Jeremiah said: "I well know, O Jehovah, that to earthling man his way does not belong. It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his step."—Jeremiah 10:23.

God made mankind subject to his physical laws, such as the law of gravity. Similarly, he made humans to be subject to his moral laws, which are designed to result in a harmonious society. For good reason, then, God's Word urges: "Trust in Jehovah with all your heart and do not lean upon your own understanding."—Proverbs 3:5.

Thus, the human family could never be successful in regulating itself without God's rulership. Trying to be independent from him, people would devise social, economic, political, and religious systems that would conflict with one another, and 'man would dominate man to his injury.'—Ecclesiastes 8:9.

What Went Wrong?

God gave our first parents, Adam and Eve, a perfect start. They had perfect bodies and minds and a paradise garden for a home. If they had submitted to God's rule, they would have remained perfect and happy. In time, they would have been the parents of an entire perfect, happy human family living on a paradise earth. That was God's purpose for the human race.—Genesis 1:27-29; 2:15.

However, our original ancestors misused their free will. They wrongly thought that they could be successful independent of God. Of their own free will, they stepped outside the boundaries of his laws. (Genesis, chapter 3) Because they rejected his rulership, he no longer was obligated to sustain them in perfection. 'They acted ruinously on their own part, did not remain his children, and the defect was their own.'—Deuteronomy 32:5.

From the time they disobeyed God, Adam and Eve began to degenerate in body and mind. With Jehovah is the source of life. (Psalm 36:9) So because of cutting themselves off from Jehovah, the first human couple became imperfect and eventually died. (Genesis 3:19) Consistent with laws of genetic inheritance, their offspring could receive only what their parents themselves possessed. And what was that? It was imperfection and death. The apostle Paul therefore wrote: "Through one man [Adam] sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned."—Romans 5:12.

The Main Issue—Sovereignty

When Adam and Eve rebelled against God, they challenged his sovereignty, that is, his right to rule. Jehovah could have destroyed them

Answer 9

God helped Judah drive out those living in the mountains, but it was not God's will that Judah drive out the lowland inhabitants.  Just because man sees something as 'God doesn't have the power' doesn't mean it's true.  Often, God's plan doesn't mesh with man's plan.

Answer 10

Remember, "god" is nothing more than a nonsense word created by man to explain away all of the things we can't yet understand.

Religion is a disease of the mind, born of fear, which has done nothing but bring untold misery down upon the human race.

Answer 11

He's everywhere...protecting u every second....in his way of course....

Answer 12

How can we possibly know?

We'll start off with the question "Is the Bible devine?" and go from there.  God may exist and have nothing to do with Christianity - or all to do with it.  How can you PROVE it one way or the other?

Militant agnostic:  I don't know and NEITHER DO YOU!

Answer 13

He can't.  The way I see it is if something good happens a religious person will say god answered my prayer.  If something bad happens then they say god wanted it that way for a reason.  None of it makes sense.  I believe we are on our own.  And Yahoo should not hit me with a violation notice again for having an opinion.  I answered 2 religious questions honestly to my beliefs and someone turns me in.  If you don't like my answer, just give me a thumbs down,  Thanks.

Answer 14

God CAN prevail over chariots and other weaponry. I don't understand everything about God but I know that with everything He has a master plan. In Judges 1:19, I think somehow it was part of His purpose for the Israelites not to be able to drive out the inhabitants with chariots.

In defeating modern weaponry, I'd heard countless stories of how God has protected people from harm, for example, in the war in Iraq. I know this because God protected a soldier friend of mine while he was in Iraq.

I don't know everything about God and I problebly never will. But I do know that God is almighty and all powerful and He love you very much.

I really hope that I have answered your question.  

Answer 15

His technology has improved over time as ours have and God now flies a Death Star and has Warp Technology and Jump Drives, Star Gates, Teleporters and Death Beams enough to wipe out our world in a split second. Don't mess with Darth God!

God learned from his past mistakes and has vowed never again to let something like iron chariots defeat him and his armies!

And just before God blows up our wicked world, he has promised to use his Abductor Ray to uplift the true believers into the Mother Ship "Eden II".  That's a promise you can take to the bank and cash!

Answer 16

God could protect them from the chariot but didn't, you fool. He doesn't protect us against everything, if that was how it was, people would find that out and use him, but we do need to trust in the LORD, and if you don't know much about the religion, i suggest you stop talking about it, it's a religion that you don't believe in apparently, and that doesn't give you the right to imply things when you know nothing about God.

Answer 17

I guess that's god's version of kryptonite..

Answer 18

He can't because god isn't real.  It's that simple.

Answer 19

that passage is in reference to the Hebrews fighting the inhabitants of the lowlands. to say "G-d was with judah" simply meant Judah had faith in G-d. this does not literaly mean that G-d has no power against weapons it meant that man has limits to man's power against weapons "of iron".

Answer 20

Maybe his weapons have improved.

Rev.. Neil

Answer 21

That settles it, I'm getting an iron chariot and going after God!  He's going to pay.

Answer 22

God is weaponry.

Answer 23

Disobedience....when they( the Israelites) were brought out of Egypt the Lord told them to drive out all of the Canaanites from the land they were given  but the didn't do it, instead they made treaties which they(the Canaanites) broke.  You reap what you sow my friend.

Answer 24

So if you believe the God exists, how can you ask such a question knowing from the Bible that God is capable of anything?  

God can fizzle out a nuke if he wanted to.  Judah defeating the inhabitants of the lowland wasn't God's plan.  He simply allowed the defeat of Judah to fulfill his plan.