(June 30, 2015 at 9:45 pm)IATIA Wrote:(June 30, 2015 at 4:27 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Why did god create creatures that are at least as likely to fail as to succeed? Even with free will, he could've made us more likely to follow his lead than not.
Why does he continue to create creatures that are destined to sin, and thus go to hell? Isn't that incredibly wasteful?
Why does a perfect being desire us to rejoin him? Doesn't want/desire point to imperfection?
Why hell, which isn't corrective, and not some other mechanism?
Why doesn't he simply provide unambiguous evidence of his existence and power, thereby greatly reducing the number of people who are sent to hell?
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I deem your god petty because he thinks a finite crime, even those that don't actually hurt anyone (like unbelief) to be worthy of eternal torture. Saying, "Well, the bible says he's just, so it's just" is laughable. And, no, arguments from ignorance aren't going to cut it as a response.
I expect that you will get the same answers I did. Zilch. His responses are simply rote rhetoric.
Oh, no doubt. Likely with an appeal to ignorance about god's mysterious ways to boot.
I keep asking for him, for anyone, to explain my "obvious" mistakes. All I get are deflections and circular bible talk. There needs to be something better than "all of this illogic comes from the bible, and that aught to be enough for you."
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