(May 10, 2015 at 12:25 pm)Vicki Q Wrote: If you want to know what Jesus was up to with “Why have you forsaken me?”, it's essential to read all of the relevant psalm here.
In this, a suffering yet faithful person calls to God for help, with a very successful outcome; the ending with the Gentiles learning to praise God, awakening of the dead and deliverance of future generations being massively important.
Quoting the psalm doesn't change the fact that he did many things he'd been told not to do. If he lived at all, he was forsaken for his own sin by a god who sends people delusions to make them believe a lie. (Thessalonians 2:11), How can god send people a delusion and not be the author of confusion? How can he make people believe a lie and not be a liar? How can even Jesus trust such a god?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
