RE: I Love You Enough to Burn You
May 6, 2011 at 9:21 pm
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2011 at 9:30 pm by Rev. Rye.)
(May 6, 2011 at 4:05 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(May 5, 2011 at 8:18 pm)Cinjin Cain Wrote: Xtian view: God gets angry hurt when you deny his existence.There you go CC... now try again with something that actually resembles what is actually said.
My son has told me that he doesn't like me and he doesn't want to play with me. Admittedly, it hurts.
Xtian views: God, in his hurt and anger prepares a place of does everything to prevent self imposed eternal torment for his child.
Xtian views: God will some day never ever turn his back on you if you don't tell him you love him.
Xtian views: God You will burn you in a place of ultimate terror - as he will for do all his children who didn't show love for him.
And yet, here's the problem: Why would God allow a place of eternal torment to exist? He is all powerful and at least somewhat loving. And, why, if he doesn't turn his back on you, and still loves you, would he allow eternal torment?
As I mentioned before, for all the pain and torment that things like the Holocaust and the Cultural Revolution caused, even that was finite. The people responsible for allowing it to exist are usually considered complete monsters, and if a powerful entity, which is opposed to its existence, does nothing to stop it despite being powerful enough to be able to do so, people tend to lose their confidence in it. If Boutros-Boutros Gali can lose a second term as Secretary-General for failing to prevent the Rwandan Genocide, how do you think an omnipotent being who allows the existence of a place of eternal torment would fare?
Come to think of it, how would he be any better than the collaborators at Vichy?
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.