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Originally posted by Beavers
reply to post by pheonix358
More Loserferian's trying to drag everyone down to eternal suffering.
My heaven is gonna be a party with all my loved ones, enjoy wherever you end up x
Originally posted by KrzYma
reply to post by spy66
The Big Bang is still just a scientific THEORY!
Your God created all in 7 days, remember??? not some billions years ago... hypocrite!!!
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by 1PLA1
Assuming the Christian/Judaic authorities, both living and inanimate, are fully correct in both their records and their beliefs:
With every soul your god judges, he judges a piece of himself, for a piece of himself lives within us. Should he judge too many, he himself will burn for all of eternity, for the mastermind must burn with the puppets, no? His are the designs, his are the powers, his is the copyright, the license, the will and the charge. In the court of law, everything that has ever gone wrong was in his power to amend, and in his power to prevent. He failed to do either, which makes him more guilty than any sinner that ever existed. He is the father and master of every man alive, past and present and future. Those who do not repent are damned for their sins. Is he not, therefore, subject to every penalty we have earned from him, as creator of those sins?
Or is it too much to ask that the creator be held accountable for his creations?
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
edit on 31-12-2012 by AfterInfinity because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by LadyGreenEyes
Originally posted by Jepic
reply to post by LadyGreenEyes
God as the omnipotent is the one that created everything. He knows about the duality. I bet he knows a lot about duality and the philosophy behind it. So why did he go ahead regardless knowing full well the miserable confusion it would bring to humans who never asked to be created in the first place.
Before his creations there was true serenity. We never were and as such never wanted anything. But he decided to create us and along with that end serenity. If this is remotely true, this God cares nothing but for his own enjoyment. Are we just actors in a theater?
Show me anything in the Bible that speaks of duality. You seem to be crossing the ideas of various beliefs. Not all belief systems are compatible.
God created us for His own reasons. Perhaps He wanted people around so that He could show us His love. He created us in a perfect world, full of wonderful things, and He gave us free will to decide if we would love Him back, or turn away. If you want love, you can't demand it. It must be freely given. Love demanded isn't love at all.
Before His creations, there was no Earth. Serenity in what, exactly? before His creations there was no sun, no moon, no stars, no light.
He created us, and He loves us. He knew, before He started, that people would screw things up, and from before he started, He had a plan for that as well. A way to bring things back to that beautiful perfection that none since Adam and Eve have seen. He lowered Himself to our level, and lived among us, and died for us, paying our debt, taking on our punishment, so that we could still be with Him, if only we accept that gift. Do you really believe that He suffered and died because He enjoyed that? That supposition doesn't match what He did.
He gave us life. What we do with it is up to us. Are you upset that you have life in the first place? No, we don't ask to be created, but that doesn't mean God is wrong for making us.
No, we are not actors. We are part of the story, but we make our own decisions, and write our own lines. he knows everything we will do and say, and has from the beginning, but that doesn't mean He chose those actions and words for us. Foreknowledge isn't the same as direction.
My question is who are you (generically speaking) to judge God? Does the creation have the right to judge the creator? Is it right for the flawed to judge the perfect?
As humans we are limited in our knowledge and yet we presume to judge that of which we aren't fully aware.
Your arguments are skewed to your presumptions. Perhaps you should attempt to look at the bigger picture.
Luke 11:23
New King James Version (NKJV)
23 He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.
Luke 11:23 NKJV
How could God be so cruel to create a species that is so destructive.
Originally posted by Texture
reply to post by pheonix358
How could God be so cruel to create a species that is so destructive.
If God created a species of beings exactly like Himself, where would the sport be in that? But in all seriousness...
Your question leaves out the fact that man has a choice. That makes man cruel, not God. Man chooses destruction and cruelty. Some men that make that decision understand the difference between good and evil and some do not.
God doesn't make mistakes. All is as it is supposed to be.edit on 4-1-2013 by Texture because: (no reason given)
We were made in God's image, therefore a valid argument exists that if man is cruel, so is God. The history of God clearly shows this is the truth.
Like I said... sincere questioning is a very good thing. It's all in the attitude of the questioner. See, I'm warning you as a friend. Be careful, because it's only your eternal soul at stake.
See how it all fits together?