Originally posted by @apathistGod showed up 2,000 years ago and even people who saw Him in the flesh and saw Him perform miracles (including raising people from the dead) did not all believe.
If God would show up we could answer some questions. But it never does. So what we are dealing with is mental illness.
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You want Him to do that all over again?
You think God answers to you? Read the last few chapters in the book of Job. You’ve got it completely backwards.
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeBack to this atheist trope?
Meanwhile, you can contend yourself with the notion that God 'has' made himself known, and despite being all-powerful and perfectly loving allows innocent children to suffer and perish through no fault of their own.
Sin is a terrible thing and it affects the guilty as well as the innocent. And guess who ushered sin into the world and commits sin? It ain’t God!
You’re like someone who takes a sledgehammer to the hull of someone’s boat and then cries out when the boat owner and his kids drown, “Why didn’t you save them, God?”
Would sin be sin if its consequences were nullified?
That said, God does still perform miracles but not on the mass scale you apparently think He should.
And (lastly) children who die go to a much better place. And they go there for eternity.
“For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.”
(1 Peter 1:24-25)
Originally posted by @apathistYeah, the true part of the story. It only makes sense that Satan, who’s been actively deceiving and trying to destroy man from the beginning, would try to corrupt God’s Word.
You care about this subject. So you have met gnosticism, right? The bible we are fed is only part of the story.
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeWe already went over this, hombre. Do you not remember? Shall I re-post the article that explained it and why your superficial understanding of it was wrong?
Cough, cough, 2 Kings 2:23-24.
The Bible’s a lot deeper than you think.
Originally posted by @romans1009Would ordered killed fill the bill? God ordered many children killed.
Really? Can you identify a single child whom God has killed?
Originally posted by @eladarI'm pleased to see at least one theist knows his bible.
Would ordered killed fill the bill? God ordered many children killed.
Originally posted by @romans1009Noah's Flood, perhaps?
Really? Can you identify a single child whom God has killed?