(June 22, 2015 at 4:49 pm)Godschild Wrote: No one has to stumble into eternal torment, God made an easy, simple way to walk away from that fate through His Son. You want t work with an assumption that God wouldn't have anything to work with but His desire, God answers this question in the NT by saying He desires no one to enter eternal punishment.
That's my point: if god wants everyone to be saved, then we're better off having him decide our fates. Otherwise we are at risk, regardless of how "easy" it is to be saved using his son's sacrifice. After all, how easy it is depends on who you ask, and many denominations have different rules regarding how we can be saved. Why risk it? Think about it: when it comes to making the best decision on anything, who would you trust: yourself, or god?
Or put another way: if god made that decision, everyone would be saved. But because he does not, billions of people will not be saved. Which is the better outcome?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
