(May 22, 2015 at 11:56 am)Drich Wrote:(April 14, 2015 at 11:48 pm)Iroscato Wrote: So let us for a moment imagine God is real, and a theist dies and goes to heaven. Now imagine 30 or so years later, the child of that theist, who ended up being an atheist, dies and gets sent to hell for his non-belief.
From now until the end of time your child, whom you cherished and adored from the moment they were born, whom you would literally give your own life for, will be tortured and tormented in ways that are incomprehensible to the mind. They will never escape, and God will never change his mind, so their suffering will be as eternal as your own afterlife. You will never see your own child again, and you know that every minute of every day, they are in indescribable agony.
My question is...what would theists think of the God who not only let this happen, but specifically planned it as part of his grand scheme for humanity? How would that effect your love for God and your trust in him? I am extremely curious to know.
Truly in the 'grand scheme' a child is not the off spring or 'piece/part' of you that we have come to believe them to be.. A child is the vessal that houses the next generation of 'living souls.' Which in essence are all of God's offspring/children not ours. our children in the grand scheme are our brother and sister souls when view through God's eyes, and our children are not apart of us/soul, in the same way as they are in life/through our body's DNA.
If one loves God with all of His being, and his brother does not, or even worse hates God and His followers, then what does it matter if that brother was born in to your house hold in this life or in a ISIS house hold? Shouldn't God have final say as to which one of us receives his blessings and which ones do not?
So you're saying essentially you place the authority if God over the love of your own children.
This is exactly my problem with religion, or one of them.
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