Originally posted by sonhouse
Well then, it goes back to creation if that story is right, we are a poor design and this god knew it. It still goes back to a god that needed help in the design area.
Which goes to the issue that your god, even if all the tales are true, was not all knowing omniscient and so forth.
It just goes to show ME the man made nature of all religions.
Too ...[text shortened]... ly powerful force to stop those religions but some how maybe even encouraged them to take place.
I beg to differ, you are asking for robots or computer programs that only do what it is
programmed into them not free willed beings who do as they choose and do it out of
a loving heart only, not because they have no choice in the matter. If weeding out those
who would rather scoff and sin over those would care and do the right thing is allow them
all to be mixed it up in a world so it can be shown this is how loving ones behaves in face
of such selfishness I think is very powerful.
The fact that Jesus took all of the guilt for everyone so He could show mercy to all to me
suggests that God has shown us His grace and mercy. This was done so that we would
know it is through God's grace not our attempts to be good enough that matters. We are
also told to love everyone even those people who do us harm, because we are forgiven
and Jesus died for them too. God isn't asking for us to fight one another but love one
another, He is asking us to forgive one another as He has forgiven us.
This life time is short, we leave her to go to a more ever lasting one, those that reject the
free gift of God's grace will go where their life choices take them. The most important
part of this is those that accept God's grace and those that reject are on their own are no
better than each other they are all flawed sinners. So it isn't our own righteousness, but
God who saves us.