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originally posted by: trollz
If a 4 year old child finds the family handgun and starts playing with it and accidentally shoots himself in the head, who is to blame? Is the child to blame for playing with the gun, or are the parents to blame for leaving it in an accessible location? Of course it's the parents' fault. The child didn't understand the ramifications of its actions, and the parents allowed the situation. Yet you say God isn't to blame when a human being who lived a good life is sent to an eternal Hell because of their lack of understanding.
If a child sticks something in an electrical socket out of curiosity and electrocutes itself to death, should that child be found deserving of the death it received, since its own actions caused it to die? Of course not, it was a terrible misunderstanding on the child's part. The child had no comprehension of electricity or death, and yet it's dead. That's not the child's fault. Yet, you would say it IS our fault if we die spiritually, condemned to an eternal Hell, because we so much as didn't believe that there even was a Hell.
If I'm walking a dog in a public place and I decide to let it off the leash, and then the dog proceeds to violently attack someone, who is to blame? The dog for making the choice to attack, or me for letting it off the leash and allowing the possibility of an attack to occur? It's my fault, of course, because I allowed a dangerous situation to transpire, knowing it very well could. And yet, you would say God isn't to blame for our sin despite creating us with an inherent sinful nature, knowing that we would and will sin.
According to the Christian perspective, sure, people choose to sin. But why wouldn't they? Are not all humans created with the inability to live without sinning? Does the bible not say that every person has sinned and will sin? Every human alive is incapable of being sinless... And yet we are supposedly condemned to an eternal torturous Hell for having the very nature we were created with.
If there is a God, our suffering is directly his fault. He created us with the ability to sin, knowing we would sin, knowing we would suffer, and then further condemning us to an eternal Hell for that which he forced us to have.
originally posted by: loNeNLI
the goal is inverse -- to get as many adamite souls into heaven as póssible
And only after solid refusal, one will make his own exile
a Royal Nature can forgive a lot...a lot..
and He knows very well how helpless we as souls are,
imprisoned in this apeframe saturn fabricated
originally posted by: ancientthunder
you are un/consciously wanting to blame God
originally posted by: ancientthunder
A god which I assume you think doesn’t really exist.
originally posted by: ancientthunder
there are humans with their own creations and environments that they have created directly or indirectly as a race through the ages.
originally posted by: ancientthunder
Firstly try and understand that God may not be blaming and condemning either. He may just say you are free to live life in the world of cause and effect and I understand how hard that is. Meanwhile I wish you the best, all I gave inherently to each form of life is a limited amount of free will. Now what one does with that free will is not my affair, because is it was it would not be free will.
For example, a mother eventually has to allow their own child to have their own free will. This is know as to be truly loving, to not do so is very much frowned upon by many humans in this day and age. What all loving parents silently think and wish is that their children use that free will wisely! Now just to underline, humans can understand this but in many aspects are limited. Wisdom shows that God is blameless.a a reply to: trollz
a reply to: trollz
I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you using creation of man as evidence that creation of God can also be? I don't disagree that our universe may have been created by something.
originally posted by: trollz
originally posted by: loNeNLI
the goal is inverse -- to get as many adamite souls into heaven as póssible
And only after solid refusal, one will make his own exile
a Royal Nature can forgive a lot...a lot..
and He knows very well how helpless we as souls are,
imprisoned in this apeframe saturn fabricated
So God's goal is to get as many of us into heaven as possible? Then why is he sending people to Hell? Nobody is going to die and say "nah, I'd rather burn in Hell for the rest of eternity with no escape". I certainly wouldn't. If God can do anything, then God can allow every human into heaven. The way you're saying it, it sounds like God has a certain lack of power or authority here.
"If God can do anything, then he can choose not to send me to Hell."
originally posted by: ancientthunder
I have heard this and take that as everything comes from God. Pure potential for example!a reply to: MarioOnTheFly
originally posted by: ancientthunder
I have heard this and take that as everything comes from God. Pure potential for example!a reply to: MarioOnTheFly
originally posted by: ancientthunder
My general point is how can we blame God for things that we are sure he has not done. a reply to: violet