RE: Christian answering questions too!
May 2, 2016 at 4:53 pm
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2016 at 4:54 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(May 2, 2016 at 3:38 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: 1) Constructed the laws of the universe, including the requirements for how the bipedal, intelligent apes inhabiting one small desert corner of the third rock from one star out of trillions (that we can detect), should think and eat and dress and screw.
2) Constructed those laws in such a way that the penalty for failure to adhere to them is a penalty of eternal torment.
3) Offered "pardon" to those who worship said entity and accept that pardon thereby.
If I came into your neighborhood with a crew of heavily-armed men, gathered everyone in the central square, and told them at gunpoint that they were doing something I didn't like, so they could either tell me I'm the greatest and accept my pardon, or else I'd have to shoot them... what would you call me?
Your "God" has done exactly that, by allegedly being both lawmaker and judge, especially since I only have your word and the written words of long-dead barbarians to tell me that it's even a real thing.
I think you're way off base.
There was no law in the beginning. What law was Abraham under?
God put man here with only one restriction.
Unbelief is what caused man to fall, therefore it will take belief to bring us back. It's quite simple.