(April 12, 2010 at 12:38 am)The Piper Wrote: The physical death of a baby becomes irrelevant against the scope of eternity. God created the life, God has taken it away.
What does that even mean? If you're trying to make a point that God is benevolent and cares about humans, what ill has an unborn baby done to warrant death from sin, as per your assertion?
(April 12, 2010 at 12:38 am)The Piper Wrote: True, God does know the outcome of my life before I am even born. God still has feelings, he is not an emotionless entity. He strongly desires(hopes) that I do the right thing. He still desires it, even if he already knows the outcome.
God desires things that he already knows will not occur. I know Mary's going to murder Bob in a week, but I hope she doesn't, even though I'm never wrong.
Is this how God works?
Does that make any sense to you?
(April 12, 2010 at 12:38 am)The Piper Wrote: God only allows evil for a certain ammount of time. When Christ returns there will be a new Heaven and a new Earth. There will be no more sin.
So the statement stands. God is unwilling to abolish evil, then why call him omni-benevolent?
And the Book of Revelation says that one day, God will get so angry with the products of his own creation that he'll kill all of us and send us to our respective playpens in the sky/ground. This God sounds like a teenage girl with a temper tantrum. Someone who screams "fuck it" and trashes the place, while abolishing all responsibility - stemming from a wanton need for attention.


