Originally posted by BananaKing
He's merciful enough to not kill you himself right here right now for not believing in him, he gives you a lifetime to change your mind.
Yet apparently not merciful enough to make you stay alive until you realize that he or she exists. Nor merciful enough to forgive you from not seeing the truth, or for that matter not merciful enough to actually just come up and tell you during your life time....
If hell exists and people that don't believe in God go there then God isn't merciful at all...
Re: God says hes merciful and loving
Originally posted by Black DalekI see this a lot. I am unsure if the Bible actually supports the concept, or if only an interpretation of the text does. My parents used to say that if I did not go to school life would suck when I got older. They wouldn't make my life suck, but it would. I figure it's a similar case. We could avoid personal grief if we behaved properly and placed ourselves into a position where our suffering did not occur.
Yet if we don't believe in him, we'd suffer horrible pain for eternity. Thanks God.
Originally posted by Fishy
Yet apparently not merciful enough to make you stay alive until you realize that he or she exists. Nor merciful enough to forgive you from not seeing the truth, or for that matter not merciful enough to actually just come up and tell you during your life time....If hell exists and people that don't believe in God go there then God isn't merciful at all...
90 years is a damn long time to be ignorant about something that's all around you. I've always found it funny that people don't believe in god when there are SO many people that do, strange that we know alot about the world but people still believe in god!
Personally, believing in something as random as evolution(a very new idea) for the whole of someones life over believing in god (something that people have believed in for about 50x longer than evolution, which people still believe at the same time as evolution) is kinda, well, awkward and weird.
Let's jus remember he could do even worse and jus get rid of your entire existance! 😄
Originally posted by BananaKingMy whole life I've believed that smoking is bad for you (a new idea really), but people used to believe it was fine, even good for you for like a lot longer than the last 50 years. Ideas and people change, and since I've seen little to support God's existence, and much to prove evolution's (in comparison to one another), I'm gonna stick with the thing that provides more proof.
90 years is a damn long time to be ignorant about something that's all around you. I've always found it funny that people don't believe in god when there are SO many people that do, strange that we know alot about the world but people still believe in god!Personally, believing in something as random as evolution(a very new idea) for the whole of someones life over believing in god (something that people have believed in for about 50x longer than evolution, which people still believe at the same time as evolution) is kinda, well, awkward and weird.
Let's jus remember he could do even worse and jus get rid of your entire existance! 😄
Originally posted by BananaKing
90 years is a damn long time to be ignorant about something that's all around you. I've always found it funny that people don't believe in god when there are SO many people that do, strange that we know alot about the world but people still believe in god!
Once upon a time a lot of people believed in slavery... strange, I don't see it merely as much any more. People can believe in God/gods if they want, but it is in no way strange that plenty don't.
And it is kind of sad, that conformist way of looking at things "what, you don't believe in God? But so many people do. Can they all be wrong?"
Any study of history will reveal a massive number of faiths that have lived, died or been reinterpreted. We can be fairly sure at some point lots of people believed in them. Do you believe in them? What about Islam? Hindu? Buddhism? Do you believe in all of them because so many others do? By that logic you would have to believe in all faiths with enough people in them. I mean - they can't all be wrong, can they?
Personally, believing in something as random as evolution(a very new idea) for the whole of someones life over believing in god (something that people have believed in for about 50x longer than evolution, which people still believe at the same time as evolution) is kinda, well, awkward and weird.
Actually your view is weird. I wish I had a cane so I could rap you across the knuckles with it.
Let's jus remember he could do even worse and jus get rid of your entire existance! 😄
And there you go - exactly why I question the claims "God is loving" - that can only be said because he has a clause protecting him. "No matter what terrible things God does they are Good, because God can do no wrong because he is God."
Any God/gods who have Holy books detailing there advocacy for mass slaughter for the reason "they are evil" is going to make me question the claim "I can do no wrong."