(January 10, 2013 at 4:55 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(January 10, 2013 at 3:50 pm)Mark 13:13 Wrote: Picture the scenario; you as an athiest have now become the leader of a nation with very advanced technology. You are the full authority, there is no one to answer to and all power to rule is yours. Your scientists have developed a new device so powerful they call it the supernova. It is designed to be the ultimate deterrent from aggression as in 1 push of a button, the one now blinking green on your desktop, the world will be obliterated in a flash so fast that everyone would be dead so fast that the wouldn't even experience pain. The earth would dissappear in one brilliant flash and then nothing.
You believe that death is final, no life after no God to meet. You look at the world around and see that people continue to suffer from all the normal pains, griefs, heartaches, relationship problems. Natural disasters continue to occur. Nations and groups still find reasons for war. The poor continue to be poor and the nutcases still erupt with deadly results. You could end the whole thing in a painless moment and all suffering would be gone in an instant. Everyone is going to die anyway this would be painless for all.
Would you press the button and end suffering?
if not why?
The real question is, why, as a Christian, would you not want to end the earth?
After all, Christian dogma states that this life is a quick (70 years or so) stopover on the way to eternal life with 'God', right?
As a Christian, ending the earth would solve many problems.
1. All Christians would immediately go to heaven. Why would you want to delay that?
2. Infants would instantly go to heaven. Why would you want to take the chance that they may be corrupted by 'evil' and end up in hell? Better to assure they go to heaven by ending their lives early, right?
3. The vast majority of those of us destined for eternal suffering, will not be 'saved' in our lifetimes. The few that might get 'saved' are offset by the infants that might become corrupted.
As a Christian. what are the downsides?
We can't upsurp Gods authority over one life let alone millions.
