(May 1, 2025 at 10:52 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(May 1, 2025 at 10:33 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: And yet that avatar of your god, Jesus, exhibited clear doubt in the Garden of Gethsemane. Granted that doubt may not be a sin -- though to many Christians it is -- by your reasoning it is implied that doubt ought to be welcomed, as that is what your god himself displayed in his earthly incarnation.
Well, yeah. That is what it means to be human, to experience fear, doubt, pain, hunger, and so forth. The example is less about whether such feelings are welcomed and more about how to respond in the face of them.
Odd that a perfectly empathetic god might disparage doubt and urge faith, in that case. Or use fear of Hell to have to convince folks to believe, for that matter. Or use the promise of everlasting life, beyond that.
There's some steam leaking through the seams of this ship, at any rate. Get some DC crews working.