RE: Eternal punishment is pointless.
November 17, 2014 at 5:38 pm
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2014 at 5:39 pm by Godscreated.)
(November 17, 2014 at 3:09 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 17, 2014 at 3:01 pm)Godschild Wrote: How do you remove the God that's eternal, one with no rival?
Yet god himself disagrees with you in certain parts of the bible.
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me" implies there are others, as well as this quote: "Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God."
If there wasn't any competition going on, god needn't be worried.
God doesn't disagree with what I said, it's you who disagree. You yourself know that God was talking about idols of stone and wood, money, love of self and ect.
God isn't worried, explain how a omniscient God would worry. God's concern is for the people who go in the wrong direction and could find themselves in trouble. Yes God is jealous and why not, it's Him who created them and gave them life. If not for Him they would not even be alive.
Now answer this, who is a rival to God that could do Him in?
GC Wrote:God did sacrifice His life so that everyone could be saved, however that salvation couldn't come without His resurrection.
Quote:So to whom did he sacrifice his life? To himself obviously, since the father, the son and the holy spirit are one. The resurrection of an all powerful being, temporarily giving up one aspect of his trinity, isn't all that impressive.
He wasn't trying to impress you, He wanted to give you a chance at salvation and it cost the Son his life so you could have that opportunity. I guess you missed the part of scripture that says Christ faced the cross as a sinless man, but since you nor I are sinless we could not understand what that means. We are all up in arms when an innocent man is put to death for a crime he did not commit, yet you make fun of Jesus dying on the cross and He was completely innocent.
Christ was sacrificed for mankind, the blood He spilled was to cover our sin, it took perfection that we are not capable of to save those who desired salvation.
You want to make a big deal out of not being impress, Christ gave up everything when He came here in human form, He gave up his power, his place of sovereignty and every thing else He enjoyed in heaven.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.