xentar
New Member
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2007
- Messages
- 274
- Reaction score
- 0
Sighs, and you call yourself a christian.What ten things?!
The Ten Commandments.
If the only way to get to Heaven is through God - what about all the BILLIONS of people who existed before Christ's time who had never heard of God. Do they go to Hell automatically? Heaven automatically? Limbo forever? (There are hundreds of millions of people since Christ who still haven't even heard of him). What about a rapist / murderer / child molester who believes in God and repents; will they get into Heaven ahead of an atheist who lived their whole life in accordance with Christian values of tolerance, compassion and humility? How does this square with God being morally perfect if he rewards these behaviours in this way?Only for those people who still turned away from him, If their hearts wicked, and if they did all the sinful and evil things and did not ask for forgiving, then Yes, those people will go to hell. God doesn't want that to happen, he gave us time to ask for forgiving for our sins before we die, If you decide not to, Obviously makes it your problem not God's. The decision is up to you now.
And what about the problem of free will.
If God is an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, morally perfect uncreated creator, then it logically follows that God must know every single details of our entire lives from birth to death - millions of years before we are even born.
This is because if God is omnipresent in the past, present and future then he must see the future because it's already happened for him - which is why he is omniscient, or all seeing.
So if he is the uncreated creator there at the moment of creation, and he is omnipotent or all powerful, then he is not just an observer to - but is actually responsible for every single thing that happens to us, and every thought we ever have over our entire lives. He knows what the casual chain is for anything we do - at the moment of creation, because what happens to us billions of years later is already in the past for him at that moment.
So how can we be said to have free will? It's logically impossible if he exists with the characteristics he's described as having.
These are just a couple of examples, but there are stacks more - and for every religion.
Anything based on dogma, like all religions are, is going to fall down to peer reviewed critical thought. There are far better sources for morality, and better explanations for creation, if you have the courage and humility to seek them out for yourself.
Ah, once again, proof of God.Does it make you feel good when people trust you? Does it make you mad when people refuse to trust what you say? I think God feels the same way. He has done many things to prove to mankind that He exists but we keep refusing. For example Jesus, People saw him, some people didn't believe in Jesus, and still don't. How many times does God have to prove to you all about him? I can't help it when some of you people are so stubborn.
This is called Pascal's Wager, and is a major fallicy in religious debate.
You claim you believe so you will be saved if there is a god, but what if you chose the wrong religion? What if the Islam god is true, or the Mormon god, or Hindu god(s)? What if every earth religion got it wrong, and the real god only lets people in to heaven who didn't believe in any of the 'wrong' earth religions?
What if the Christian god is true, but he decides to kick you out of heaven because you only believed in him to 'hedge your bets', and this arguement seems to state?
Gravity is something that is real, testable, and proveable. To disbelieve in gravity is dillusional because one would be rejecting reality in place of their own beliefs. God is not real, testable, or provable. To reject a concept that cannot be proven is called being rational.
And remember people: GOD IS REAL BECAUSE HE SAID SO IN THE BIBLE!