a) You're not truly separated from God. You can call on Him anytime. Also, you're on the same level as every other unsaved sinner, so Hell is not going to be any different for you.
b) The environment of Hell inflicts the pain all on its own. It's called an inferno for a reason. Although, I did hear a story about an atheist who went to Hell. He was hanging upside-down on a cross, and He saw other people hanging as well, screaming. There were demons stabbing his legs with pitchforks.
b continued) Suddenly, He saw a Hand reach down and pull Him out. He is now a Christian minister. I guess God had to scare him into believing. Look, don't count on God to save you from Hell when you're already there. Highly unlikely it will happen.
But God created Hell, right? I notice you're always trying to shift the blame of horrible things away from God. Sin, hell, you claim these things act on their own, but God created them and he can get rid of them if he wants. To my view that makes him guilty of all these horrible crimes.
God is a loving God, but He is also a just God. Eternity in Hell is just the place a sinner deserves to go. You can't seem to grasp how horrible sin is. Again, it is responsible for everything horrible in the world. Shifting the blame to God is ridiculous. A lot of humans seem to lack the ability to take responsibility for their actions.
A pharmacist gives you medication and instructions specifically on how many and how often you should take it. You decide to ignore the instructions and take as many as you want, thereby hurting yourself. You can't blame the pharmacist for your recklessness. God is the pharmacist, we're the consumer, the instructions is the Bible, and the medicine is life.
It is SUCH a double standard that you let God take credit for everything except bad stuff.
If a "miracle" happens then Christians are all over praising God for it, but when it comes to the bad stuff, it's us, not him apparently? Even though he designed us, designed our brains. Either a) he knew we were gonna be sinful from how he designed us or b) he's just bad at designing brains
And I think it's completely at odds with how everyone lives their lives, at least in the west, to think of sin as this one big horrible thing and all sins are equal. If I told you that I touched myself, and I told you that I killed 7 people, which would horrify you more?
a) Life is a gift from God, but the hazards of life are not from God. My parable basically says to live responsibly. Good things can come out of life, but if you take too much out of it, you will get hurt.
OK, so if the hazards of life are not from God, who created them? Come on Gehenna, it says there in the a Bible that God created everything. He is the overarching supreme authority, everything is here because of him. And that includes sin, death, disease, Hell, war, everything. He could take them away if he wanted, and he's the reason they exist.
So God's the thought police. What is wrong with me thinking whatever I want to think? Don't most Americans believe in freedom, Gehenna? If I have to worry about what I'm thinking, that's not freedom. I thought the leftists were supposed to be the cultural marxists
God didn't create sin. If anything, it seems Satan created sin from his wicked desires, since he is the first sinner. Humans create sin as well. Sin is what happens when we go against God's word.
It's the comment directly below, about the reasoning behind us being an accident. Essentially, survivorship bias is a sampling bias when you're looking at evidence. A person might look at this planet and our species and say "wow, the odds of there being such a perfect planet for us are super duper small so it's likely we had a creator"
But a reasonable person would say "hang on, what about all the times that there WASN'T a perfect planet, so no life could form?"
Cause the fact is, we can't record instances of all life being wiped out, or life never emerging, because then we wouldn't be here to record it. Ya see what I'm getting at?
Philosopher: The gods do not love us, they are cruel
Peasant: How can you say the gods do not love us, I read yesterday about 12 men who were miraculously saved from drowning by the Gods.
Philosopher: But you do not read about all the men who were not saved, and were drowned.
Oh and on the thing about Satan and sinning, I disagree, primarily because I don't think free will exists but that's a complex scientific debate and I think I'm not very prepared or willing to have it :)
On your Greek thing, God has a plan for everyone. When you have fulfilled that plan, your mission is over, and God will let life take its toll on you. God may have multiple plans for you.
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