(June 23, 2015 at 3:22 pm)Godschild Wrote: What if everyone doesn't want to be saved, this forum is full of that type of people.They are saying that they do not want to be saved by the god you believe exists. Which is understandable, because the god described in the Bible is a scary combination of a being who is both unpredictable and unstoppable. But if it's a god who is truly kind and loving and generous and wants the best for us, I don't see anyone who would reject that. It's just not what they expect from your god.
Godschild Wrote:Being saved can't be God's choice,I don't see why not. God is no ordinary parent, imperfect and sinful and unable to do much more than bring a child into the world and try to raise it as best they can. God is perfect in every way and able to provide much more than any human can, including knowing exactly what is best for each and every one of us. To leave us to our own devices is to ensure that most of us do not get what he actually wants for us. That seems very cruel.
"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
