Is God good?

Not according to the Bible:

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Isaiah 45

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7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

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Its not evil its evil Its just another one of the numerous examples of the Bible contradicting itself.And this whole thing is quite funny, let me analogize it:Let's say I am the Grand Rulemaker and I cannot be wrong. I decree that nobody shall wear a red hat. Next, I put this on: If you were a believer like you are, then your arguments would be that either that is not a hat, or it is not red... for as the Grand Rulemaker who cannot be wrong, I have decreed that nobody shall wear a red hat. So, that can't possibly be a red hat that I'm wearing.Meanwhile, everyone else can see that it is, in fact, a red hat and you are just making stuff up to maintain your preconceived beliefs. It makes you look quite silly to point at a red hat and claim that it is either not red or not a hat.

What was that you were saying before about the King James Version being the best (which is what I quoted from)?But oh, if it shows you being wrong, well then, piss on it this time!You're hilarious.

If you want to come off as someone who has no honesty with themselves or other people and will say anything they have to in order to maintain the beliefs they've already decided they must adhere to... yeah, if that's okay then its OK.

sighI grew up through 12 years of Catholic education and we used the King James Version of the Bible that whole time.Seems to be an odd way of trying to get rid of it. But, you know, facts don't really matter when you've already made your mind up.

No, no, no. What they're going for is calamity.The greek word that's underlying their true thoughts is better rooted in calamity. You see, there's reasons to believe that the Protestants have this huge conspiracy going where they're tricking the underminers into thinking their calamity is actually evil. It because of their secret underground leader (read: Satan)who hates that evil is being sidelined to calamity. There's actually Protestants who have admitted that they're secretly working for Satan to trick people into thinking that calamity is really plain old evil. I have some sources for that, I'll have to dig them up later.Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.

The Protestants think that aliens flew into the writer's fingertips and used their little spaceships to control the fingers of the authors so that everything would appear to be more complicated than it has to be. Once the Protestant Pope enables all his mind-contolling software, everyone will be so blinded by the complexity that they'll just have to run straight for the churches to make sense of everything. Then Jesus will come riding in on the Adam and Eve's pet velociraptor and it'll garble up all the dirty Catlickers and the Protestants will win the greatest Truth or Dare contest in the enitre Universe.

So much for Sola Scriptura, no?

Ok, and which one do you prefer? Would you like no harm to come to people or would you like 6 million of them to be killed?Any sane person should easily and immediately be able to come to the same preference as 99.99% of the population.So, we can use the nearly universal preference to come to a conclusion that one of those things is better than the other.Once we get some sort of consensus, then we can assigning things as either good or bad.Then, we can quite comfortably say that killing 6 million people is a bad thing and whishing that no harm come to anyone is a good thing.Its really not that difficult if your position doesn't require insisting that these conclusion are impossible without God.

By whether or not Faith believes in them. You're just gonna have to ask her and let her tell you what's what.

Because that's what Grave means. You don't deserve it but you get it anyways. If you had to deserve it to get it then it isn't Grace. A common description of Grace is "unmerited".

No doubt. There's so much different stuff going on in there that you can practically make it say anything. The KJV has it like this:

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18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

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19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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20 Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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21 Salute every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren which are with me greet you.

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22 All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household.

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23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

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And that's the very last line of the book. Its like a salutation. Its not really worth basing the definition of a word on.You can take passages out of the Bible to pretty much support whatever you want:

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John 1:16

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And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.

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In the Old Testament its something that is found in the eyes of the Lord. (Gen 6:8)\So, whatever, it depends on what you're talking about. its not clear what you meant by this: But Ringo's response was correct. You don't need to "earn" God's grace.

Why? Does it hurt his widdle feelings, or something?

Speak for yourself. My ego and feelings are not hurt. And my question remains:

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What kind of existence do you think can be had in a state where God's forgiveness is rejected, His presence is disdained, His care is not wanted, His blessings are not needed, His holiness is insulted, His authority rejected, His glory profaned ?

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Torment is an apt word to discribe the existence of the sinner who wants nothing but himself and his unforgiven transgressions against God and man.

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Why?

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Why is eternal torment the right punishment for dissing God?