I’ve always had a bit of trouble with those verses from John. Firstly, we’re told that God loved the world so much that he decides that people who believe in Jesus will be saved, and those who don’t believe will be lost. This is where it all starts to unravel.
Christianity has never been the most followed religion on Earth. In fact, it has never accounted for more than about 1/3 of all people in the world. This means that God has condemned more than five billion people to eternal damnation. And no qualification is given for the reasons for disbelief - people with good and sufficient reasons for rejecting the divinity and message of Jesus are summarily damned.
How can God claim to ‘love the world’ while consigning full 2/3 of its population to (we’re told) perpetual suffering? It’s kind of like saying, ‘I love all of my six kids equally, but I’m going to kill four of them’.
Boru
Christianity has never been the most followed religion on Earth. In fact, it has never accounted for more than about 1/3 of all people in the world. This means that God has condemned more than five billion people to eternal damnation. And no qualification is given for the reasons for disbelief - people with good and sufficient reasons for rejecting the divinity and message of Jesus are summarily damned.
How can God claim to ‘love the world’ while consigning full 2/3 of its population to (we’re told) perpetual suffering? It’s kind of like saying, ‘I love all of my six kids equally, but I’m going to kill four of them’.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
