RE: God, come out, come out wherever you are!
April 30, 2012 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2012 at 1:58 pm by Welsh cake.)
(April 29, 2012 at 6:57 pm)Drich Wrote: If the President or the Queen or whomever was the most important person in your country were to invite you over for a state dinner would you also demand that he/she personally invite you, or would an invite from someone on their staff be ok?Sorry, what are you talking about? Either way the analogy fails because I haven't received any 'invitation' from god in writing.
Quote:What about this: God's primary attribute is not an all encompassing love as most think. Rather we are told in the bible it is Righteousness.Not all Christians agree with you. Take Godschild for example.
(April 29, 2012 at 9:10 pm)Undeceived Wrote: Matthew 20 describes the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. In it, the landowner offers his workers a denarius for a day of work. More workers join at noon and in the evening. Matthew 20:9-15 goes like this:You can appreciate an hour's work is not a day's work can you not? You wouldn't last five minutes as an agency worker in the real world with that kind of attitude. Yeah, no, the parable fails.
“The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
“But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
(April 29, 2012 at 9:31 pm)Ryft Wrote: "At judgement day, God in effect says to Bob, 'I never knew you,' and casts him into the lake of fire because Bob never believed out of his free will."How can an omniscient deity not know someone?
And if theists ponder that god is the sustainer of all reality as in all that exists, wouldn't disowning someone (declaring them no longer of god) cause them to cease to exist on the spot?
