RE: Open Letter to Christians
October 29, 2014 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: October 29, 2014 at 11:14 am by Alex K.)
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He does want to have one with them, but they have to come to Him, He cannot force them into this relationship, for then it would not be a true relationship.
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(October 29, 2014 at 10:30 am)polar bear Wrote: Please do not think I want to argue with you just because I am asking questions. I am really interested in YOUR answers to these questions. Please refrain from your sarcasm, judgement, belittling or anything like it.I don't understand the question. In which situation?
1. How do you know if god is a) teaching you a lesson b)disciplining you or c) satan is attacking you?
Quote:2. Why are there so many religions? (free will not accepted)Because of sin. That's related to the free will problem, but you can't deny that completely. If humans want to fuck things up and ignore the signs, they can choose to do that. See Question 9.
Quote:3. Why is christianity the correct religion?What do you mean, why? It simply is the correct religion. Do you mean how do we know? Well, only Jesus has done the things that he has done. Also, if you let him, he will tell you personally and fill your heart with certainty.
Quote:4. Why do christians fight each other about stuff like baptism, communion or free will v predestiny?The ego of people will get in their way, and they will try to insert their own meaning into the religion instead of following Jesus. This way, inaccuracies come into play.
Quote:5. Will jews go to hell?Not automatically, they will get special treatment in the afterlife because they were the chosen people, and can agree to join Jesus there.
Quote:6. Why did jesus never write anything down for us?How do you know that? Maybe he did but people lost their copies.
Quote:7. Why did paul write the majority of the nt when he never knew jesus?He had a personal relationship with him. Temporal distance is no hindrance in matters of spiritual truth.
Quote:8. Why did the people who assembled the bible leave out so many known letters?They needed to put out an edition which would best help their readers find the true faith. With their readership in mind, they made the appropriate choices to make sure that the relevant information was there without the message getting lost in the sheer magnitude of the book.
Quote:9. if god created EVERYTHING, why did he create sin? or better put satan?Inserting conflict into the world was the only way for God to create something separate of himselfe which would be able to provide true companionship. Without this element, we would be mere appendices of God without independent inner life, not a separate creation.
Quote:10. The creator of the universe created everything. For millions of years, there were no humans. All of a sudden humans just appear not evolve. Does a being capable of all this really desire a relationship with me?I don't understand the problem. Waiting millions or billions of years to achieve something is a triviality for God, who is not bound by time and space as we are.
Quote:11. If he does want a relationship with me, why does he not want one with the millions of other people who are not mainly european and american?
There are many more questions but these are at the front of my brain right now.
He does want to have one with them, but they have to come to Him, He cannot force them into this relationship, for then it would not be a true relationship.
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
