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Author Topic:   Why do Christians make God out to be dumb?
sidelined
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Message 15 of 259 (81808)
01-31-2004 12:50 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by burntdaisy622
01-31-2004 12:18 PM


burntdaisy622
Just because a loveing God exists does not mean that a hate doesn't. See that's the thing. People want to blame all of the bad things that happen in life on God or the nonexistance of one. How about the existance of Satan?
Well for one there is no more real evidence for Satan than for God. If we go by the idea that God created the universe and everything in it as most keep Christians maintain then He also created evil.Are we to say then that evil is something that He should have left out of the world? He commits to using evil Himself so he must not have a problem with it.It is not a matter of blame and this is something that escapes the radar of Christians. It is a matter of responibility and that is where the problem lays.
If God allows for evil that He created then how can He expect to punish us for rebelling against that? It is only through ignorance that you can fashion a "loving" God from the one in the Bible.

'Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.'
(Daniel Patrick Moynihan)

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Message 27 of 259 (81928)
02-01-2004 2:04 AM
Reply to: Message 23 by scottyranks
01-31-2004 11:34 PM


Re: Christian Consistency Would Be Dangerous For Some Christians
scottyranks
The same ability to tell right from wrong is not the same as being like a creator of the universe. There are references in the Bible about similarity to God, but there is still a distinct difference between us and the Creator
If the Christian God exists, then how can anyone pretend to grasp the awesome nature of such a Being?
These are from the same post. In one you state that there is a difference between us and God {creator} and in the other you state how can anyone pretend to grasp His nature. So in the former you make a statement about his nature [distinct diference] and the latter you state we cannot do this.
Which is it?

'Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.'
(Daniel Patrick Moynihan)

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