RE: Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion
December 14, 2024 at 3:13 am
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2024 at 3:17 am by TheWhiteMarten.)
(December 12, 2024 at 5:45 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 12, 2024 at 5:08 pm)TheWhiteMarten Wrote: People doom themselves to hell when they choose to reject a place in God's presence, and yet again atheists struggle with even the most basic of concepts and think themselves master theologians.
Two problems fairly leap to mind:
1. Why does God knowingly create people who will reject him?
2. Why would God give people free will and then eternally damn them for using it?
People don’t doom themselves, me old china. God does it for them.
Boru
1. While the Bible never explicitly tells us, the ability to reject God is at the very least just a natural product of our intellect.
Free will requires the capability to reason and process information in complex ways, as does all the beauty we produce; the arts and sciences.
2. As mentioned a few posts ago, this is a misunderstanding of Christian doctrine - God is not "damning" us anymore than a judge "damns" a criminal to prison; while it's not an entirely wrong word to use it seems to almost entirely fundamentally miss the mechanic at action and place some blame of the judge and not the criminal.
