(March 22, 2013 at 1:47 pm)Drich Wrote: Imagine a house guest who wants nothing to do with you staying in your home for an eternity...
Now Imagine a guest who has killed raped murdered and persucuted members of your family. Why would you even want them in your sight?.
Why do you add rape and murder to the list? Is that the disqualifying criteria or is it simply the guest that doesn't want to stay?
I can answer your question in a few ways. It's a loaded question and really doesn't clarify your position very much but here's my take on your thought experiment:
Yes, I would let them leave. But, if they wanted to come back, they could come right on in and sit at the table and help me eat dinner. I wouldn't subject them to torture upon exiting my house.
Secondly if they were rapist-murderers persucuting my family, I wouldn't be too sure who let them in the house in the first place, but yes, I would want them out of my sight. If I was a powerful God, i'd fix them, and then let them in.
Can God not do this? Or does he just not care to because his feelings were hurt by the rapers he created? Sounds to me like those rapists he made probably went through enough shit playing the hand God dealt them in life, and the least He could do is fix them!
So far, these little thought experiments you've come up with aren't painting a very good picture of your God. Where's the Jesus Juice? Of course, when you fail to argue logically and it seems that non-believer's arguments are too strong, you are taught that is just the devil trying to decieve you. You should fight through it, and if you come up with enough fallacies, perhaps we will forget about things needing to make sense, and we will be convinced. Why does your God insist on illogical methods channelled through strangers as his only means of reaching out the ones he so desperately wants to be saved? Why not connect with us on the level we were supposedly designed to be connected through?
