It’s not much of a debate. I’d like for it to become one, but mostly it seems to be focused on the fact that some of the things religious people say are stupid or don’t make much sense. And I don’t disagree with that, but it’s also not much of an insight.
Perhaps God wanted the ones he took, but rejected the ones Left?..a different way of looking at it?
That would imply he changes his mind all the time, since eventually, he takes them all.
I see what you’re saying now, though I don’t know why you’re saying it, as if commenting on the logical inconsistencies of religious belief should be off the table because it’s too easy. When a believer starts a thread, should we not respond to it? If there’s going to be any insight to the debate, believers are welcome to provide it, but until then, it is what it is.
And my first post just corrected a misconception about the OP. That was hardly piling on as you implied.
He takes everyone eventually.
The father of that student who caught the flesh eating cooties was on the news this morning thanking God. Presumably for leaving his daughter a deformed, limbless freak.
Assuming you’re referring to a kind, loving God, why does he have to take them so violently with all that pain and suffering?
I didn’t say anything about the subject being off limits or not responding in other discussions. That wouldn’t make sense. I said I don’t think this is much of a debate. It comes one obvious point (thanking God after a disaster God caused doesn’t make much sense) with a little bit of incomprehension (it’s easy to understand why people are thankful/greatful/relieved after surviving a disaster).
I didn’t say you were piling on.
I saw and heard countless interviews with people here after the tornado last year and it wasn’t, “Whew, thank God we survived even though everything we owned was destroyed”
It was more of, “Oh, praise Jesus! Praise Jesus! Thank you Lord for sparing my life! Praise Jesus! Praise the Lord!” etc.
I haven’t seen any incomprehension here about people feeling thankful/grateful/relieved after surviving a disaster. Nobody’s disputing that. The question is why God gets credit for it.
Well, you brought up the point of ridicule when I simply pointed out a misunderstanding about the OP. If that wasn’t meant for me, then I took it wrong, but it’s odd that you mentioned it.
Makes more sense than what we usually hear.
Except the one’s who go to hell? There were and are tornados, hurricans, earthquakes,etc. where no people live and were many before humans live in those places, so it makes me wonder why that happened. I wounder could it be…Just because they were in a different spot? If a person wasn’t home when a disaster happened was it on purpose or just because they were not home?
And it brings to mind the fact that many good people suffer so much in their lives, and so many evil do not!
That what i have been told. God kills them all, and sorts the sheep from the goats afterwards.
If God knows all things, then he knew before they were born they would be evil or good, and yet he allowed the evil one’s to harm (or kill) what was also some of his children, so it is hard to accept the fact that either God doesn’t know all things or just like to have some of his children suffer, a human father like that would not be considered good.