A God of Hate
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Well, then I guess I'll have to talk to him about it. Assuming I get the chance. Christians are divided on whether or not you go straight to heaven or hell upon death. Or if you get to plead your case.
If the Bible is our guide, the one true God has appointed a man to be the judge. That’s who you’ll see when judgement day comes.
That’s right.
Got it. I would advise finishing reading the Hebrew Bible and then the New Testament before rendering a verdict one way or another on Jesus of Nazareth.
You can read the New Testament without finishing reading the Hebrew Bible but it would be like watching a movie that is 3/4 over when you sit down to watch it.
Have you ever heard of a man by the name of Justin Martyr? He is a Christian who lived early in the 2nd century. He wrote in regard to this matter:
”For if you have fallen in with some who are called Christians, but do not admit the truth of the resurrection and venture to blaspheme the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; who say that there is no resurrection of the dead, and that their souls when they die are taken directly to heaven: do not imagine that they are Christians; … But I and others are right-minded Christians on all points, are assured that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and a thousand years in Jerusalem, which will then be built, adorned and enlarged, as the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah and others declare.”
(Dialogue With Trypho, Chapter 80)
Bold is mine.
Ancient Christian history confirms your point.
Wrangler
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hishandmaiden
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We are mere human beings, we cannot comprehend God's ways. God must have a reason for destroying the kings of those nations. He has the right since He is God.
Yet, He is good and compassionate and merciful. When His ways seem to contradict his mercies, we need to remember that He sees beyond what our human minds can begin to comprehend.
Yet, He is good and compassionate and merciful. When His ways seem to contradict his mercies, we need to remember that He sees beyond what our human minds can begin to comprehend.
Wrangler
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Like in all things, it is less about understanding and more about respecting.
I said to my Pastor recently that respect only matters when there is disagreement. Otherwise, you are not respecting the other person, who are respecting your own thought processes.
Behold
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God allows for free will, and this allows for people to commit evil.
Then, people who are not able to understand this, blame the evil that people choose to do, on God.
The question isnt'.......>"Why did God allow that Rape".
The Question is.....>>>"Why does God get blamed for what a Rapist CHOSE to do".
See, for God to stop all the evil the PEOPLE choose to do, he has to originally create them to have no desires and no free will.
Instead God chose to allow Humans to not be mindless Robot Puppets, but gave them the power of choice and desire., and all chose sin., including Adam and Eve.
God is not to be blamed for THEIR and OUR Choices.
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