Hello All,
Seven years ago I 'accepted the Lord' in college, and since have met with 'fundamentalist' christians. After a few years, the zealotry began to fade and old questions I'd had starting becoming harder to ignore. Well, here I am, and dammit I want some answers!
I've tried talking to the man upstairs, but he's not talking, so here goes...
For starters, why the game? Is he really so bored that he needed to create a race of selfish super-monkeys to keep him company? Why create the illusion of atheistic evolution? Does he hate educated people? Why the change in behavior over the years? First he's loving, then he's vengeful and harsh(puberty maybe?), then he's nice again... Now he's not even talking. I don't have the reference, but there is a verse declaring that he wants all men to be saved. Obviously I'm missing something, because that doesn't jive with his omnipotence. Or is he constrained by something? If so, what?
And why does he continue the game? His 2000+ year 'last days' are often cited as 'the patience of god' by christians. But since 'narrow is the way' leading to salvation, keeping up the game means that over 50% of the population is headed for neverending torment. It would seem to me that a loving god would have ended this a long time ago.
But then again, he says 'my ways aren't your ways'. Yeah, he's got that right.
-M
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