(December 15, 2008 at 1:00 pm)Daystar Wrote: You are sure of nothing. Satan deceived Eve and Adam - in charge of Earth agreed to reject God. God knows that man would fuck it up without his help, even I know that. It is obvious.
Why punish us if he knew it would happen?
Why punish children for the parent's mistakes?
Why bother at all? He's created himself an amusement park in which he knows the outcomes of his creation and puts his subjects through misery due to mistakes he knew they would make. If God is real, he's mean =/
Quote:If he tried to humor them and do as much as he can they would never realize that they need his guidance and protection. If he stepped in he would be contributing to man's sin as well. That is why he can't have anything to do with it.
When a parent tells their child to be good by not doing something he has learned what is good and bad, if the child was allowed to formulate its own opinion it would vary a great deal from society's. God told Adam that the tree represented what was good and what was bad. He told them that they didn't have to find out what was bad but Satan deceived them into thinking they were being withheld from it.
So they weren't being witheld, God said they could, they did, God punishes mankind forever. Am I missing something? Okay, dumb question. WHAT is it that I am missing? Because I know there must be something.
Quote:If God did inspire the writing it would demonstrate itself to be true upon closer examination. That was my evidence. Had science come to the conclusion that I did before me I most likely wouldn’t have ever studied the Bible because I don’t take science at all serious.
If it was demonstrated to be true upon close examination, people wouldn't reject it. If it really were so stunningly accurate and way ahead of its time as you seem to believe, people like myself would have to stand in awe of that fact. However...
Quote:But you don’t want me to show you. You want me not to show you.replace the word "want" with "expect" and you get the picture.
Quote:You don’t believe in God? So what? Who cares? Why waste your time with it?
It is interesting.
Quote:If God did exist why would you care? So what? You would not be interested?
If God existed I'd change my entire life. God's existance would change everything I thought I knew. However...
Quote:Either way you are wasting your time … unless … unless there is some other reason. Some weakness or guilt on your part that you feel. That is real to you.
Yahuh.
