So by doing the will(law) of God, you will be rewarded, the rest will be punished.
But this is countered by Job, where he did everything right and STILL got his butt beat.
How can you stop them from running under a bus, or stealing a TV from Best Buy, or...
Are you arguing God can't? Isn't He supposed to have more superpowers than us?
I don't know about you, but I prefer a dad who fits the former, than one who would lock me in the basement, so that he can have me, against my will.
A parent who lets their kid go play out in the street is probably gonna get arrested.
I have seen parents and grandparents repeatedly tell a child to do something, or not do something, and the child repeatedly says, "alright" then refuses to obey - every... single... time...Is that love?
Is love just obedience?
A gift from God!? Eternal life!? My father is offering me a gift of life that will last forever? How can I refuse? I say, give me that life dad.
How can we be assured we will last forever if forever hasn't happened yet?
"Well son, a high price was paid to redeem life that was lost. so I need you to appreciate the value of the life that was sacrificed in order to make possible the life that you can gain."
For a weekend.
Dad. That... I don't know what to say... You really love us You gave your only begotten son, for us..
He's so disloyal to being a parent He killed His own kid, even after the kid begs Him not to die.
What a contrast that son is, to those ungrateful one.
Or maybe the "ungrateful" son is wondering why Dad is a psycho killer.
If kids are screwed up, its either because there are something psychical wrong with them, which is not their own fault or its some psychologically issue, most likely due to stuff that happens in the environment they grew up in, like parents drinking, arguing with each other, poor influence from friends, overprotecting parents or straight up poor parenting of people not knowing how to raise a child.
The bible brags about how if a tree grows crooked, it should be cut down. A smart gardener would raise the tree straight to begin with. It was neglect that allowed the tree to grow crooked. I'm not even a green thumb and I know you tie young trees to a pole or something.
We are not living in a world of toddlers are we?
I'm trying real hard not to answer this.
Do you think that there should be no laws saying that "under section 000xxx one involed in XYZ should be ABC if found guilty?
Do you think God is wrong for having such laws?
If there's a law stating a woman should be executed for having a miscarriage, are we right in condemning such laws?
Also, are you wrong for having rules in your house, So if someone takes it upon themselves to ruin your house, you have the right to remove them?
Rules, yes, but only decent ones that take into consideration the abilities of the others. The house didn't come with rules. You make them up. You can unmake them too.
Oh, so an unruly child that just wants to get his way huh. We call those snobs, don't we?
Isn't that how God acts?
*stomps feet and screams* IT'S NOT FAIR! I WANT WHAT I WANT!
Unlike today, where one can commit a serious crime, and get away scotch free.... not so, with our loving father.
Asking Jesus to get you out of being punished is wrong, then?
I'd certainly hope God would punish someone who raped their sister
God apparently lives in Ohio, Georgia, and Alabama, where the sister gets imprisoned but the rapist goes free.
Is God responsible for bringing up individual children to be good people in a compassionate but firm way? No. I'd say he's not. I'd say that's the job of our human parents.
God doesn't parent Adam and Eve and just leaves them there and then complains after they do something bad. He does it again with Cain. It's even worse with Cain, because there is no reason for God to be angry at Cain's offering nor has murder as a sin been established. God just whines about it after the fact. God is the kind of parent who beats their kid to a pulp because they didn't do their homework when it was the parent's responsibility to help them understand it.
According to the Bible, not all are God’s children. Those who are born of His Spirit are.
We're all God's children but then He wants to claim someone else is the baby daddy when the child support payments are due.
Christianity is about God as a Shepherd and His sheep, not the wolves or their wannabes.
Both the shepherd and the wolf eats the sheep. The wolf just doesn't raise them for that purpose.
To me, it's like a source of water on the border of a desert. We are being urged to stay close to the water source, rather than disconnect ourselves from it, in order to travel into the desert. Perhaps someone has misled us into believing that there is something better, beyond the desert.
Smart people bring canteens.