(January 26, 2012 at 7:37 am)genkaus Wrote:(January 26, 2012 at 3:07 am)Godschild Wrote:(January 24, 2012 at 4:30 pm)genkaus Wrote:(January 24, 2012 at 6:07 am)Godschild Wrote: Those who do benefit from God's love and believe in Him are grateful, those who do benefit and do not believe should be grateful that His love is not arbitrary.
It never ceases to amaze me how you come up with such contradictory things?
How would those who do not believe in him ever benefit?
And how would it be even possible from them to be grateful when they do not believe?
And what of those who do believe but don't benefit? You Christians always seem to ignore those.
You mean to tell me if a nonbeliever is healed by God there's no benefit for them, surely you can see that what you have said makes no sense.
I said should be grateful, of coarse they wouldn't when they do not know.
We understand that God's will in our lives may not be a miracle healing.
So, your god would choose to heal an unbeliever instead of the millions of believers? That sounds arbitrary to me.
As for gratitude - no. God does not deserve any gratitude because he caused the sickness in the first place. If you hold me at gunpoint and choose not to shoot, you expect me to be grateful to you? Removal of a threat is not a cause for gratitude when the threat was presented by the one who removed it.
God does not make people sick necessarily, what actually makes you believe that God makes everyone sick. If you were to contract AIDS does that mean God forced you to have sex with an infected person. How do you know that God has not healed someone of AIDS?
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.