God Is Evil

[Esquilax]

well... lets get personal for a moment here. What forgiveness would you give to someone who has no remorse? Whether through a confessor or to God Himself, there needs to be remorse.

But doesn't god already know if I feel genuine remorse for my actions or not, regardless of the number of confessions I've attended? And isn't that a much better indicator? I mean, people could go to confession specifically to project an image of remorse in order to enter heaven, while not genuinely feeling it. God, on the other hand, knows my heart better than I do, to hear many christians tell it; one would think that a dishonest show of contrition to get into his good books would piss him off more than a real, yet silent, remorse.

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that is because I suspect that no one has asked me what God's love is. The gospel writer John sums it up simply in the words of Christ in chapter 3 verse 16.

For God so Agape the world, that He willingly gave His Only Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.

In short God's love is to provide attonement to everyone willing to accept it so they can live with Him(and all that is included with that) for eternity. The whole of the Old Testament points to this sacrifice, and the whole of the New Testament teaches us how to live under this new attonement once we accept it. Everything in the bible revolves around this expression of love.

Okay, I got it; the only way you can define god's disposition as loving is to completely twist the meaning of the word into something it's not. Again, there's this selective interpretation of the details of this story; god's the father who can't stand being around his children unless they're constantly groveling at his feet. His "great gift" that's so perfectly loving and all... is simply being around him. And you call it a sacrifice?

That's not love. That's ego. I'm really not surprised that a christian would mix those two up, but come on; the english language puts up with enough already in the age of YOLO, let's not torture it any more.