Question for Christians #4

Aug 2011
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How do you know He didn't "rescue" them? There is a life beyond this one you know. Our life on earth is but a wink of an eye compared to eternity. Your thinking is too myopic.

Here look: dead children and babies in a mass grave in a nazi concentration camp - do they look rescued?

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Aug 2011
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How do you know He didn't "rescue" them? There is a life beyond this one you know. Our life on earth is but a wink of an eye compared to eternity. Your thinking is too myopic.
Here look: dead children and babies in a mass grave in a nazi concentration camp - do they look rescued?

One more time.............

There is a life beyond this one you know. All you are looking at is empty shells where their spirits once dwelt.

Again: Our life on earth is but a wink of an eye compared to eternity. Your thinking is too myopic.
 
Aug 2011
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One more time.............

There is a life beyond this one you know. All you are looking at is empty shells where their spirits once dwelt.

Again: Our life on earth is but a wink of an eye compared to eternity. Your thinking is too myopic.

Re-read the OP - it addresses this world - you're trying to change the topic.
 
Aug 2011
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Re-read the OP - it addresses this world - you're trying to change the topic.

I did address that already. You just didn't want to hear the answer.

These threads are all titled "Questions for Christians". They should be titled, "I will disguise my anti-Christian pontifications in the form of a question."
 
Aug 2011
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I did address that already. You just didn't want to hear the answer.

No you didn't. My issue was about evil in THIS world, and you ducked it, merely pointing out the temporariness of this world, which was not the issue rasied.

These threads are all titled "Questions for Christians". They should be titled, "I will disguise my anti-Christian pontifications in the form of a question."

I don't have anything for or against any religion, and your false accusation of it at me is merely a smokescreen to divert attention from the fact that you are unable to answer the question posed in the OP.
 
Aug 2011
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Nonsense

They do. ;) According to some physicists everything has been pre-determined from the start but in order to know what fate has in store you must know the location of every particle in the universe which we can't know, thus we enjoy the illusion of free will though it doesn't actually exist.

Quantum theory not only states that uncertainty is inherent in even the position of every particle in the universe, but that there is the strong possibility that the observer changes the situation from an indeterminate state to a determinate state. Wouldn't this amount to the exact opposite of your argument?
 
Jan 2010
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Evil exists in the world. But God is all-powerful. Why then doesn't He remove all evil from the world?

For the same reasons as given to your question 2.

This life is a test, and free will is required for a test. I assume that for those who pass the test, in the after life all evil is removed.
 
Aug 2011
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For the same reasons as given to your question 2.

This life is a test, and free will is required for a test. I assume that for those who pass the test, in the after life all evil is removed.

Some have flunked the test. But that begs another question: Why would God create ANY deficient people? And God DID create them, didn't he?
 
Jan 2012
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Earth is a crucible or a gauntlet which we have to endure to have salvation. Without the trial we would not know what we would have lost. If God did away with all external evil would evil still exist in the hearts of man. Consider original sin, some say a serpant tempted eve to eat the apple, but if she was tempted dose that mean the evil was in the serpent or in man? If man was only evil because of outside forces then eve would have told the serpant " I have one God, he commanded me to not eat of this fruit, be gon serpant". But she allowed herself to be currupted. Therefore the evil was in man the whole time.

It is also the reason all man kind suffers for that sin, we all would have eaten it.
 
Aug 2011
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Earth is a crucible or a gauntlet which we have to endure to have salvation. Without the trial we would not know what we would have lost.

Why can't God just inject into our brains the value of what we have, and not even bother with this trial business?

If God did away with all external evil would evil still exist in the hearts of man.

God created man. Why didn't he just create an evil-free man?
 
Aug 2011
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he did those are called angels.

Why didn't he create ONLY angels? Why create imperfect humans, knowing ahead of time that some won't overcome their imperfections, and will be sent to hell? Again - it all sounds like some kind of game.
 
Jan 2012
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Why didn't he create ONLY angels? Why create imperfect humans, knowing ahead of time that some won't overcome their imperfections, and will be sent to hell? Again - it all sounds like some kind of game.

I am sorry you see it that way. Until you let go of the need to have that answe you will be confined in the box of hopelessness
 
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