You have a choice in life, and in the interpretation of the Bible. You can be negative or you can be positive. You can teach God’s love for everyone or you can teach hell and damnation. Would God ask us not to judge one another and send you out to judge people. Or the judge people himself. Yes, I think Jesus meant what He said, if fact I know He did. But you and the others that don’t follow His teachings will never find out why He taught those things. Sad.
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And perhaps the greatest degree of torment the outer darkness:
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Charges of what ? Being better than God ? Yes I am; it’s not hard. Why, I haven’t inflicted so much as a single plague, killed one firstborn, or even flooded a basement much less the world.
Your vile, power mad, utterly evil god has no right to judge me or anyone else, not could we expect a fair judgement from him if he did. We are all fortunate he is only an evil lie.
Utter silliness. An omnipotent God isn’t required to do anything; he could just hand out eternal life and that would be that. Esepcially since the one setting up the “requirements” is him.
Well, if you hadn’t cut my sentence in half at the comma, I could comment that the creepy part was wanting to be sprayed with ichor - which is still a pretty extreme fan reaction even if you ‘merely’ have to mutilate a corpse to do it. But after thinking about it a while I remembered the sacrament, which in the hands of the right literalists goes above and beyond mere ichor and elevates the whole thing to farce, so you’re off the hook. If/When Jesus comes again, he’d better be careful what sect of believers he lands amongst! ‘Jesus reappears amongst devoted followers; torn apart, eaten. “Nothing like transubstantiation; much more real!” remarked one enthusiastic participant. Bones on display at Smithsonian.’
Yes, God carefully set up a scheme by which he forces his followers to either accept that Jesus sacrificed himself for you, thus inspiring guilty gratitude and indebtedness. (Like I said, I know a guilt trip when I see one.) And where did you get the idea that forgiving somebody reduces their feeling of indebtedness to the one granting clemency? Perhaps you’ve never been forgiven for anything yourself, but did the millions of people thanking God and Jesus escape your notice? If not for salvation and forgiveness, what’s all that gratitude for?
My point is that God is supposed to have known everything, and knows well in advance who will turn to evil and who will not, so the fact that he lets evil exist then needs to judge some one when he already knows who is guilty or who is innocent, doesn’t make sense that He needs to judge anyone again.
Are you saying God didn’t know Satan would be evil and take many of His children away from Him?