RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are!
April 29, 2012 at 11:58 am
(This post was last modified: April 29, 2012 at 11:58 am by Welsh cake.)
(April 28, 2012 at 7:50 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I have never understood if God really loves everyone and wants everyone to believe in him (or make him their lord or whatever else your spin on salvation might be) so he isn't force by his perfect justice to condemn unbelievers to an eternity in hell, why doesn't he just show himself continuously to everyone?I've never really understood why any god would send anyone to Hell at all. Why would any sane deity send or doom mortal creatures to a realm/state of eternal torture for something so trivial as belief or lack thereof? Let alone an omnibenevolent one? No one does, hence the paradoxes that emerge. And yet, Christians keep making excuses for this all too obvious contradiction by redefining 'love', 'sin', and 'hell' to fit their particular take on the doctrine or when those fail, resorting the ultimate cop-out argument of all time: free will.
(April 29, 2012 at 9:02 am)Drich Wrote: do you feel the Love of God?No.
Quote:The next question do you want to?The real question is "Does he want to?" because why else are you, a fellow man, asking and not the god himself?
(April 29, 2012 at 9:54 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Would you agree that God is all-loving? An all-loving being would want no one to go to hell, but he's also all-just so he can't let unbelievers slide.As I've told Christians countless time before, he does nothing.
His infinite desire to love us and his infinite desire to punish us for our transgressions cancel each other out. I'm quite surprised Christians don't use this as an argument for explaining why their god does not interact with humanity or let his presence be know.
Or at least that's what I used to believe before I de-converted, and I wasn't even a particularly bright person.
