RE: one thing i don't understand bout god/christianity
November 2, 2013 at 5:11 am
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2013 at 5:14 am by GodsRevolt.)
(November 2, 2013 at 4:48 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote:(November 2, 2013 at 4:37 am)GodsRevolt Wrote: Doesn't care?
He said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
Matthew 5 - The Beatitudes
It sounds to me like he holds those people in the highest regards.
God doesn't want us to suffer, but puts us in a world we're not suited for (according to you) and then offer comfort (but then later you admit that he doesn't really offer it even to those who believe), knowing that he created us to reject it. But he doesn't want us to suffer. He holds those who suffer in highest regards but offers comfort to everyone else but them. He gave us free will, but we have no rights to complain.
Yes, it all makes sense now. Thanks for your very enlightening views.
Twist, twist, twist.
If I were an orange you would have yourself a glass of fresh juice.
The comfort offered is that of Heaven, where we are meant to be. Which is offered to everyone (I have no idea where I said that it wasn't offered. The Beatitude is fairly clear.).
Regarding free will - you have no right to complain, but you still can. There is a difference. Such is free will. You have the ability to choose wrong, though it be the choice that is ultimately the worst one for you.
(November 2, 2013 at 12:08 am)leodeo Wrote:(November 2, 2013 at 12:05 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Yep, you know when they break out the "mysterious ways" answer, it's because they have no idea and just want to shut you up.
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What's the photographer doing in this picture? I mean, besides taking the picture.
". . . let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist." -G. K. Chesterton
