(June 12, 2010 at 1:22 am)tackattack Wrote: He didn’t make us as sinners or imperfect. He made us as decision makers in his image. It’s ludicrous to think that God created us in his image and also create us as imperfect or sinners. Your misconception lies in the fact that he created us perfect the way we are and that includes giving us the ability to turn against him and be autonomous and that each individual should be accountable for his/her own actions and decisions.
He did create us as sinners. What i constantly hear with Christians is that man's problems are the fault of man himself because we are sinners so we deserve to be mortal, to have pain, and to go burn for eternity. But God created sin, God created us as potential sinners, and God created the possibility for us to sin, while (as an all-knowing being) knowing that we would sin.
From our point of view, there is a choice. We can sin or not sin. However God knows who will sin, and when. First, this means that God testing humans is completely illogical and obviously a man-made excuse, since he necessarily knows the outcome of these choices. Second, apparently God is okay with letting a vast portion of his "beloved" children go to Hell (non-christians, gays, divorced, those who have sex before marriage...) in the name of having a "choice". An all-loving God would do anything to prevent his children from going to Hell, he would even show himself to the world to save only one soul.
My point is that even if God existed, i do not have any good reason to believe he loves us.
