@pb1022 saidIf you believe there is certainly a supernatural compensation ~ granted by a creator entity ~ for having a short life, I'm fine with that. Perhaps it helps you to process tragedy.
So an eternal life in Heaven, free from the heartache and troubles and violence of this world, is no compensation for a 6-year-old who lost his life to cancer.
If you believe there is certainly a supernatural punishment of some kind ~ imposed by a creator entity ~ for being a serial killer, then that's OK; perhaps it satisfies your personal desire with regard to 'justice being done'.
But I don't see how these personal beliefs of yours contradict the idea that there's nothing the matter with a creator entity creating beings with a finite opportunity to experience life.
@fmf saidThis is all a thought experiment to me. I don’t know why you keep claiming I’m stating what I “believe.”
If you believe there is certainly a supernatural compensation ~ granted by a creator entity ~ for having a short life, I'm fine with that. Perhaps it helps you to process tragedy.
If you believe there is certainly a supernatural punishment of some kind ~ imposed by a creator entity ~ for being a serial killer, then that's OK; perhaps it satisfies your personal desire with reg ...[text shortened]... thing the matter with a creator entity creating beings with a finite opportunity to experience life.
You’re the one who said several posts back to set aside our personal beliefs about God and now you’re claiming over and over I’m stating what I believe and expressing my beliefs.
Very dishonest of you.
@fmf saidIt’s dishonest for you to tell someone to set aside his personal beliefs to engage in a thought experiment and then characterize what he subsequently writes as his “beliefs” and what he “believes.”
There has been nothing "dishonest" about my posting on this thread at all.
That’s very dishonest.