spurgeonryan said:
ListerOfSmeg said:
I am not even a Christian but I know enough to know this guy has never opened a Bible in their life.
To those asking of Satan. Before God created man, he created the angels along with other things in heaven. One of those angels(the most beautiful) lead a rebellion against God in an attempt to take Heaven for himself. He failed and he and his followers were banished to the bottom less pit we know as hell.
I think most people cannot comprehend what it is like to be an all powerful being living forever.
My honest opinion is that we do have a creator and he understood us better than we do and knew that a simple yes or no choice of only 1 God is not something we would do as a people. That is why almost all religions are the same at their core. Love, respect, etc. Different paths to the same goal and we decide which one is best for us. I think God lives through us. We were created to live life and experience things from a point of view that he couldn't. Children are amazed at so many things but look at fireworks. He created us to experience things in ways he couldn't. He also left guidelines for us to follow the right path so that we get to see him when we go on to the next area. I think when we die we become energy. Positive or negative depending on how we lived our lives. Its that positive(good) or negative(evil) that determines which way we go. God is positive energy so he only interacts with positive humans. Eh now I am just rambling. I love discussing all the possibilities of creation. |
I went to a Lutheran School until grade 11.
But maybe you are right
@slimebeast
We Christians do not believe in God?
He did not kill Billions? Or do you blame that on Satan turning them evil so God had no choice but to Drown them? God, out of all living beings, should have a choice. Free Will. How bought just flipping a switch in the human Pysche telling them to be good? How about not punishing all of us for what Adam and Eve did? Maybe we all would not have given in to the Snake?
We all believe in the same thing. Just look at it differently I guess. Difference is, Even though I think some of this is hogwash, I still blindly belive in him.
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...if you honestly believe that God is the one responsible for murdering billions of people in the Flood(although, going by the Old Testament, I would expect the number of living humans to be much smaller at that point), then why, might I ask, do you believe in him?
I would contend that your argument about free will applies as much to humans as it does to God. God values free will in people above nearly all else. Simply flipping a switch, and forcing people to live good lives, would be exactly the opposite of what he wants to accomplish.
