(February 26, 2016 at 5:32 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: The bible tells us that when Jesus returns, every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that he is lord. In order to do this won’t god have to violate a lot of free will?
Their will be billions of people who will look back at all the pain, the sorrow, the agony, anger, violence, misery, injustice and suffering that has permeated human history, and when god reveals his ultimate plan, they will say, “No! The end doesn’t justify the means.”
These people will have to be forced if every knee is going to bow and every tongue confess.
But if god is the same unchanging today, yesterday and forever, why was he unwilling to violate free will not even to prevent suffering and evil, but is now will to violate it to force people to worship him?
Does anyone else have a problem with the priorities of this psycho egomaniac? No, I should say with the people who dreamed up this psycho egomaniac and called him god.
The situation is actually more dire than that. The Bible says that God desires that everyone shall be saved. However, God is alleged to be omniscient. This means that God knows (and has known) from the beginning of time there are some people who will never believe and others who will never repent. The logical conclusion of this is that God knowingly and deliberately allows for the creation of human beings who will never be saved, and will suffer eternal torment (of whatever form is in vogue these days). Since God is omnipotent as well as omniscient, there is nothing that the unsaved can do to surprise God, ie, to believe, repent and be saved. This is precisely equivalent to human beings having no free will.
In short, the God of Love and Forgiveness damned you to eternal torment before you were born. Nice, huh?
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
