(October 3, 2016 at 3:21 pm)lighthouse Wrote: This is for a school project to post a christian post on an atheist site and answer questions or reply to comments. Please be mature and give feedback.Hi Lighthouse.
Q: If God is a God of love, why would he create humans knowing the mass majority would end up in hell?
A: God is indeed a God of love. He loves all of his creations yet holds humanity among his favourite and loves them more than the others. First and foremost he created us with the gift of freewill. He gave us a perfect earth with no death or sickness. It was all just sex, good food, beautiful views, and tame animals. God had a very personal relationship with Adam and Eve. He didn’t force them into loving him back. He gave them an escape button. They took it. He is always chasing after our hearts and only wants us to chase after his heart. His love is not forced and he gives us an option. Think of it as you have 5 children. Three of them will end up addicted to drugs and being thrown into prison for stealing and murder. The other two will solve world hunger, cure cancer, and lead the nations with strong morality. You have a choice to kill them all or raise them all. God chooses to raise them all up with the same amount of love and chances to love him back. Only two choose to love him back and let him pure his knowledge and supernatural love into and the other two rejected him yet he was still with them even if they couldn’t see.
So, the only choice humans are given is to love God or to suffer eternal punsihment. Do you feel those are very equal options?
As to your analogy, if I had 5 children, I think it is pretty extreme to assume that they will either be murderers or saviors. Perhaps some of them will chose not to follow in my footsteps, and perhaps even become estranged from me for one reason or another, but they will still be good, decent people. Perhaps those that chose to suck up to me will secretly be serial killers. You analogy makes no sense to me, at all. It is very black and white. It seems that you see people as either good which means those that love God, or evil which is those that do not.
Our job as parents is to raise children that will go be productive members of society independent of their parents. If my children do not love me back, nor cling to me forever, I would not send them to eternal punishment. How is that part loving? My love for my child is unconditional. Any punishment I do give them will fit the crime, and have the intent of making them better in the long run. Eternal punishment, by definition, cannot make a person better, as you cannot learn from it and maybe then come back to god. It's eternal.
The god you describe demands love in return for his kindnesses, and if it is not received, punishes. Please explain to me how a God that cannot even do what a human mother can do, can be called a God of Love?
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
