(March 27, 2012 at 2:55 am)FallentoReason Wrote:Godschild Wrote:What makes you think God would live by your reasoning, full of holes is an understatement, your bucket can hold no water. Where do you find the word omnibenevolent, I see it nowhere in scripture, as a matter of fact I can not find benevolent or benevolence in scripture.Then all I was taught at church was misguided as every second word I would hear about God is 'good'. 'God is good' was how we would mutually conclude a deep conversation about God with fellow Christians.
Where do all these blessings come from then?
God is good, your problem is in defining good. You look at good from your point of view which is like mine and all others, narrow at best. You are trying to hold God to a definition that is contained in our small minds, with God and his omniscient mind, knowing all things, He sees what will be perfect for his will. It's like trying to hold the universe to our standards of scientific understanding, then the universe breaks our rules, and we must adapt to understand what we have discovered and rethink what is true. The same with God the more we understand about Him the more we must rethink what we know about Him. This is why only through a personal relationship with Him can we begin to understand Him. God is good, it's outside of our understanding for the most part.
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.