RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
December 5, 2016 at 7:40 pm
(December 5, 2016 at 7:21 pm)Luckie Wrote:(December 4, 2016 at 2:01 am)Luckie Wrote: Q: if unborn babies are "with God", then when did they get to practice their free will? What if they didnt agree with said god and chose Satan's side with the other 1/3 of the angels?
I swear I've never had anyone answer or even acknowledge this question.
Sorry, I honestly did not see that question. I've thought of it myself a lot too, actually.
This is just my opinion, since we know very little about the afterlife and how it works.
I think everyone still has their free will when they move on to the next life. Including people who died while they were still babies. My theory is that after people die and see God for themselves, they can have the free will to either humble themselves before Him or reject Him. Heaven is the state of acceptance, Hell is that of rejection. I think anyone who dies while they are very young will always choose the former. Think about little children and how they are for a minute. The hearts of children tend to be naturally "pure" and good. Perhaps because they haven't been around this world long enough to harden their hearts and establish any sort of greed or immoral habits yet. Whatever the reason is, children and babies just have a certain humility and purity to them that gets carried over to the next life.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh