(October 9, 2015 at 10:40 am)sinnerdaniel94 Wrote:(October 9, 2015 at 10:35 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: I don't understand this "worshipping" thing that theists tend to do.
If I believed there was a god it would just be a thing I believed.
I don't worship gravity because I believe it exists.
God has loved you before He formed you in your mother's womb. He has known you before the world was created. He gave you life and when you were dead spiritually, He came to the rescue. He then makes you His child and loves you for eternity.
So, in your version of free will, god created me, knowing all along that I would not be convinced that he existed.
And he did this, knowing that I will be punished for eternity for the finite crime of disbelief.
Why would he create atheists knowing that we will be punished?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
