February 1, 2012 – Zephaniah 1 - 2:11

1:12 - “The Lord will not do good, nor will he do harm.”  This seemed an interesting sentiment to me.  It has the appearance of the “lukewarm” that will be spit out.  It is the same feeling you get today when you hear people talk about religion.  They say it is a private thing, a personal matter, it isn’t suppose to effect the public world.  They have the attitude that God will really do no good.  But they don’t fear God either or that He will do them any harm.  It isn’t exactly atheistic, because it believes in God.  But it takes away all God’s power.  I don’t know what category that belongs to. 

After chatting with some people, indifferentism appears close to what this might be called.  Catholic Encyclopedia says this, “ This error (indifferentism)  is shared also by the Deists, who, while they admit the existence of a personal God, deny that he demands any worship from His creatures.  That seems close to what I was looking for.  They believe in God, but don’t believe He needs to be worshipped (I take that also to mean obedience).  They would not look for any good or ill to come their way from such a God.