(May 26, 2017 at 6:32 pm)Valyza1 Wrote: The way I understand it, someone's motivation for rejecting God is irrelevant to the rejection itself. From what I understand of the Christian view, the judgement of God and God's love play two different roles in the human drama. It is, for all intents and purposes, two opposing forces, despite their emergence from the same source. The judgement aspect of God only wants people to get what they deserve and cares nothing for what they experience. It only wants justice, and the Christian view of justice is that everyone deserves far worse than what Jamal gets in this hypothetical situation. The opposing aspect of God to this is Love, which wants only happiness, beauty, and all the rest for everyone, no matter how unjust they've been. The only way to reconcile these two desires is the offering of a human model of perfection, a just human, as it were, for humans to believe in and in who's emulation to direct as much desire, ambition, and judgement as is humanly possible. It isn't so much, with Christianity, that God pronounces judgement on this or that person, but that God offers a way to rise above that judgement. Salvation comes from having faith in the Just embodiment of God (Jesus), not from oneself being just. We all suck, according to Christianity. So to reject the one way of rising above your own personal justice is, of course, to submit yourself to your own person justice, which, according to Christianity, is Hell.
How do you know all this? What if your understanding is wrong?
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.
