I was raised AND Was a hardcore Christian - Sunday school, retreats, prayed everyday, even taught Sunday HS kids as an adult- the whole nine yards. I genuinely loved God from within. Then as I grew older, I started to really questions things with a logical mind. And ultimately I became an agnostic two years ago.
If God so truly loved us and is truly omipotent, why does John 3:16 apply? Why only through Jesus we can gain eternity and his love? I'm a mere human and if I were God, I wouldn't create my creations just to mess with them and send them to hell. By the way, thousands throughout the world died yesterday not believing in Christian God and thousands will today as well. Do they go to hell?
I would truly love them whether they believe in me or not. No hell, no eternal suffering. Isn't THAT the REAL unconditional love?
The problem I have is of God's character and its internal contradiction within the book of truth.
God claims to love us yet he's a very moody, jealous and violent god.
Remember,
*Your loving God set village in flames and killed everyone because the townsfolks were gay.
*Your loving God completely murdered and wiped out all children, women and men on the face of this planet with flood, except for one family.
*Your loving God proclaims that if you do not believe in Him, you will suffer in hell in ETERNITY
Doesn't your God possess omniscience? Did he not know how his creations would behave when he created them? Furthermore, aren't we as His creations, merely acting on how we were made by the creator himself?
Then why did He punish us so with great wrath and vengence throughout history?
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Not politics. Not news.
Harvey
Senior AnandTech Moderator
If God so truly loved us and is truly omipotent, why does John 3:16 apply? Why only through Jesus we can gain eternity and his love? I'm a mere human and if I were God, I wouldn't create my creations just to mess with them and send them to hell. By the way, thousands throughout the world died yesterday not believing in Christian God and thousands will today as well. Do they go to hell?
I would truly love them whether they believe in me or not. No hell, no eternal suffering. Isn't THAT the REAL unconditional love?
The problem I have is of God's character and its internal contradiction within the book of truth.
God claims to love us yet he's a very moody, jealous and violent god.
Remember,
*Your loving God set village in flames and killed everyone because the townsfolks were gay.
*Your loving God completely murdered and wiped out all children, women and men on the face of this planet with flood, except for one family.
*Your loving God proclaims that if you do not believe in Him, you will suffer in hell in ETERNITY
Doesn't your God possess omniscience? Did he not know how his creations would behave when he created them? Furthermore, aren't we as His creations, merely acting on how we were made by the creator himself?
Then why did He punish us so with great wrath and vengence throughout history?
---
Not politics. Not news.
Harvey
Senior AnandTech Moderator
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