Quote:God with all your heart
Worthless sycophantism mixed with useless authoritarianism
Quote:love thy neighbor as thyself?
That's not love that patronization . True love is born of treating others how they wish to be treated .
Quote:Omniscience doesn't mean that God makes things happen, but rather that he knows what will happen. He didn't cause Adam to disobey him, but Adam made that decision himself. Knowing that mankind would choose to turn against him, God already planned to redeem us when he created us. Why he wanted to do it that way, I don't know.
Knowing something will happen that will lead to tons of needless suffering and doing nothing to prevent it makes you as guilty a perpetrator . The act of then later trying some half assed measure to fix the problemdoes not amends make. Nor responsibility absolve .
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.
Inuit Proverb
Inuit Proverb