(January 30, 2018 at 9:17 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(January 30, 2018 at 4:20 pm)SteveII Wrote: Like I said in another post: I think everyone has an obligation to seek out truth about God. There is excellent evidence that this desire is built into us. I personally am aware of the basics of all the worlds main religions. I find Christianity to be the most evidenced, most internally consistent, and most closely aligned with reality.
As part of that built in desire to seek out the truth about God, a Muslim would ask the same three things about Islam and he/she may find their native religions lacking (or maybe not). But the process requires you to at least ask the questions and to compare the religions. I think you are wrong that people do not question their religion (even Christians here). I think all people serious about whatever religion they follow ask hard questions.
So, then why would a so-called ‘just’ god, give an overwhelming advantage to a only fragment of the total population? I mean, not everyone on the planet has equal opportunity and resources to glean an education on world religion. So, we’re all judged equally, but some of us have the odds impossibly stacked against us, while others of us are just...lucky? Pretty unjust, and rather silly, I think.
Did God "give" an overwhelming advantage or is it simply that part of the world has an overwhelming advantage because of the accumulation of trillions of free will decisions man has made over the millenniums? For your point to be valid, you need God to have some control of most or all of people's actions.
Since I believe God judges you on the basis of your responses to the truths revealed to you (as we have been discussing for many posts), it is about as fair as a world can be that consists of people that have free.
