Job 41:11 Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything under heaven belongs to me.
Romans 11:35 "Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?"
1 Corinthians 10:26 "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof."
Exodus 19:5 Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations--for the whole earth is Mine.
Deuteronomy 10:14 Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.
The crazy thing is that this is what I have heard both well-meaning and less than well-meaning people do. They claim God owes them. One of these is that since he made me he owes me. The argument is flawed because God has given us far more than we deserve. We have free will. We have salvation if we want it. The things that God says are sins are bad for us and the world around us so what he asks is for us to have a better life and a better world. Yet, as is often the case those who don't want to see that won't. I pray I always do.
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