RE: A Loving God
October 1, 2016 at 5:46 pm
(This post was last modified: October 1, 2016 at 5:54 pm by Lek.)
(October 1, 2016 at 5:12 pm)Rhythm Wrote: What does an infant, who suffers and then, after a few months...dies from a preventable disease, learn..Lek? What is the lesson? Who is being taught a lesson? What sort of teacher employs such a method? There's invariably some "for your own good" excuse whenever a christer realizes that denying that bad shit would be under the purview of their all powerful, all loving god won't work. Find me the good, in that. Consequences? What has the infant done? Preparing for a potential reward....don;t even get me started. "Well, sucks that you got raped/robbed/killed....it's all made okay by a ticket to fairyland! We cool brah?"...no, you wretched thing, we aint cool.
I'm not sure what the infant learns from that or how he is better prepared to enter eternal life, but I do know that infants definitely do learn. I also know that infants suffer from the consequences of all kinds of stuff, just like the rest of us. Do you think that when that infant is living in eternal happiness that he is going to care that he suffered for a few months beforehand? I don't believe that all suffering is good though. That's why we're supposed to be working to to alleviate the suffering of others. It's actually another way we grow into the people that God wants us to be and to prevent or ease suffering in the world.
