Is God good?

OK, I'll agree that you are not unable to receive the truth. In fact, you dare God to convince you because

You see no way that anything you were ever taught is true(concerning Christianity)

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Secretly you would love for God to exist yet He has not said or done anything for you that you can see...thus....no God.

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2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 talks about those who believe the lie because they have not a love of the truth. Faith is convinced that Jesus is the truth, as am I. You, on the other hand, are a lover of truth....except to you, truth is knowledge.

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Some of us believe only things we can see, touch, taste, or understand. Others cling to hope in faith, the evidence of things unseen. I did not mean to insult you, by the way.

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Edited by Phat, : No reason given.

I do believe that Christ died for my and everyone else s sins. As far as calling God a "she" do you think that hurts God any?

People die. The Bible says that God killed them directly, but they may have died in acts of nature or circumstances of natural origin. Newborn babies are not accountable to anyone...if they die they die. Adults are another matter spiritually. Fact is, however, we all die.

I disagree. My belief is that Jesus Christ was in the beginning with His Father. He was before He was born and He IS after he died.I fail to see how this doctrine cheapens Christianity in any way.Perhaps you have read this: In my belief, God is good and good alone. To call God both good and evil turns Him into a pantheistic oneness, rather than a monotheistic absolute. God created good and evil, to be sure, but it was a necessary foreknown to allow for free will.If you had a kid, for instance, and commanded him to stay inside and not to venture outside, he could not disobey you if there was no outside. He would by default have to stay inside. (in communion) Lucifer, according to some tradition, was originally an angel in communion with God and the rest of them. Only by choosing to rebel did Lucifer get cast out(hence the need for an outside). By the same token, humans are aware of good and evil and are responsible to choose whether to do evil(go outside) or choose good.(remain in communion)One analogy that I like to use regarding a Trinitarian concept involves the Sun(analogous to God "in Heaven") the Light(Jesus Christ, the light of the world)and the heat or warmth(of the Holy Spirit). Jews know or believe there is a sun in the sky. They feel the warmth. They cannot, however see the light. For whatever reason, so the dogma goes, the Jews were blinded to the reality of a Messiah. I believe that God is good, however, and the good guys win in the end.

God is benevolent enough to even have allowed Lucifer the choice to become satan and actualize potential evil. He is also powerful enough to allow it to exist only long enough to teach us a lesson as we freely choose His Spirit over our own. Hey, even satan may one day get another chance...who knows?

Let me try and put my belief another way.God initially created Angels. They were in communion with God...as a matter of fact, there was no "outside"...there was only inside.God created good and evil only in the sense that He created potential evil...or a potential "outside" of communion.Lucifer was given free will and chose to be outside of communion. Thus, potential evil became actualized evil (evil=outside communion)
and from an outsiders perspective we now had dualism...though in reality it was still One Holy Spirit and an "outside" composed of imitators.Humans came along and were foreknown to choose the knowledge of good and evil. This is essentially the knowledge of inside (in Communion) and outside..(outside communion).This is where we sit today. We have a choice to re-establish communion through Jesus Christ or we have the choice to remain freely outside of it all.I dont expect you to necessarily agree with my belief, but can you at least understand the concept as I present it?