RE: Why, God? Why?!
February 8, 2018 at 3:34 pm
(This post was last modified: February 8, 2018 at 3:36 pm by John V.)
(February 8, 2018 at 3:03 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: Okay. I accept that as plausible; the notion of wanting to give love to something else the way we want to have children to love. But, I can’t think of a single thing my children could do to me or anyone else, that would drive me to cause them eternal pain and suffering as punishment; to cast them away forever. That would be terrible parenting. This is where it falls apart for me.
Wish I had a dollar for every time I've addressed this here. Only the saved are children of god.
Quote:There was time before time?
Yes. And, there will be time after time.
Quote:Not exactly sure what that has to do with Huggy’s faulty analogy.
It's an aside. You're straining to try to build a case that God was somehow lacking, when you could simply argue that from the verse I noted.
(February 8, 2018 at 3:30 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: This is my line of reasoning:
If god created people out of some yearning for fulfillment; some feeling of lacking something that would be rewarding, or add meaning to his existence, then he is not a fully whole and perfect being.
OK. Seeing as the Bible itself says that Jesus was made perfect through suffering, that's not problematic.