(October 30, 2016 at 10:12 am)Brian37 Wrote:(October 30, 2016 at 9:41 am)Little Rik Wrote: Let us forget about the priest unfortunate comment and concentrate on your idea that .............If one has the power to protect someone, like a police officer, or teacher or baby sitter but sits on their hands and does nothing, they are dicks.............you are surely right but if you relate this idea to God then you are dead wrong.
Your free will automatically cut God intervention.
Why God should intervene and take away your free will?
God may well intervene but only if you build up a good relationship with him not when you decide to keep your free will regardless.
What a load of bullshit. You have no say in getting old there is no "free will" to stay healthy and never get old. My mom did not chose to have an abdominal aortic aneurysm. You know how fucking absurd you sound.
Mom, "Hey God I want to have my body fail so I can have a very invasive operation and lose more of my mobility to the point of having to leave my independent living home and all my friends, that would be so much fun".
It's even more absurd when it comes to child rape and murder. Polly Klass "Hey God, you know what would be fun, if one night while I am asleep, a drugged up creep kidnaps me out of my bedroom and rapes me and slits my throat". Please tell me what sane human would "choose" that, much less a kid.
How about a does of reality. 50 million to 60 million humans worldwide die every year from everything, old age, disease, famine, natural disaster, accidental crime and war. Bad things happen to greater or lesser degrees to every human at some point, and everyone dies eventually in any case. It is an insult to my intellect alone to try to chalk suffering up to comic books bullshit. It is like trying to claim Thor doesn't want to interfere with your choice to be struck by lightening.
There is no "free will" in any comic book old bronze age Yoda vs Darth Vader context. Humans can make diet choices and health choices and seek medical help and those are real solutions not needing any sky wizard. But even with medical help everybody's body wears out.
God doesn't force you to smoke, drink use drugs eat junk food or meat full of saturated fats nor does he force you to torture or kill people or damaging the environment.
Humans with their free will do such a things so the buck stops with them.
Nothing to do with God.
