you know i made a really good observation

[Huggy Bear]

The thing is that were all going to die anyway, the 70 years that you spend on the earth is just a blink in time, in other words, you're going to be dead a lot longer than your time living on this earth, which is a privilege not a right, so make the best of it.

If you transgress the laws of God, he has every right to shorten your time on the earth(which is already short). It's kinda like trying to distinguish between 1/100 and 1/1000 of a second, if your life is cut short somewhere in between, does it matter? We all will return back to where we came from.

Your listed religious views become more ironic with every post. I've already "been dead" for far longer than I've been alive. I don't recall that being any sort of priviledge, I don't recall having had any means to make the best of that. I'm not even sure that these concepts can be arranged thusly and yield a coherent statement about, well - anything.

Your comments as to the rights of a god are vacuous. However, your comments about what matters are pregnant with insightful points of inference. As I've had occasion to mention to another poster similarly afflicted of late - I'm sure that death at the ripe old age of 5 is washed of meaning (and particularly of any inconvenient negative implications for the religion you believe in) by candy, forever. Sounds legit.

If it doesn't matter whether or not your life is cut short I hope you leave a scathing letter in your last will and testament about the pettiness of the courts for prosecuting whomever may, in some unfortunate and hopefully never to be realized situation - prematurely put an end to you.

Maybe you missed the part where I said that children cant "die". The word "death" simply means "separation", those that are "in christ" are not separated from God. Sure, the death of a 5 year old child is sad... for us that remain here. But is it sad to him?

If I can illustrate it this way, if we take an unborn child whose only world is it's mothers womb, how can we begin to express what the outside world is like compared to the womb? The process of birth is painful and traumatic for both the mother and child, but after experiencing the outside world, would you want to return to the womb?

So why then do we think that those people that are with God, want to come back here? We cant begin to imagine what it's like there, the same way a unborn child can't begin to imagine what the outside world is like.