It's not important what I think. The point is that your defense of God as "bad" for not preventing evil is predicated on a weak presupposition.
You posted what appears in the op to be a logical approach to what I assume to be one of your beliefs. I countered accordingly. Now you retreat into...
Peter denied Christ three times. Jesus didn't abandon Peter. The religious Jews of Jesus' day murdered Him and He prayed, "Forgive them Father for they know not what they do."
It doesn't necessarily follow that God would prevent the occurrence of evil. It may be that He desired and planned it. Evil, once it's run its course (like a pathogen), may be the best thing for humanity. Our inability to know this admittedly could (and probably would) bring us to the...
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.'"
You're forcing a 'you must be Christian" on Jesus' words. He says no such thing. Read it carefully for what it actually says, not for what you've been taught it says.
"And there is...
Hell is not only unjust, but God Himself shows us in Scripture that it is. Not sure there are still readers here...if there are, challenge me and I'll gladly explain why I believe this to be true.
I had forgotten about this post till now, just returned to find your snide remarks.
I'm not patronizing anyone. It's really very simple: upon reading your comments in this thread, it occured to me that the so-called 'humanistic' model you contend for could have no ready answer for types or...
Tradition generally seems to recognize that the role of Moses in the Exodus was symbolically that of Christ as intecessor. Assuming this to be true, it would appear God's orchestration of persons and events created this type for the benefit of future readers of the Scripture. Can you explain...
But like the term "sin", the phrase "missing the mark" is also ambiguous. Also , this seems to parallel the idea of sin as a privation, but privation and missing the mark are static terms and sin is much more dynamic it seems to me.
Christians will do well to recognize the logical traps placed before us by atheists. As various responses (including mine) in this thread showed, autodidact is not interested in actually exploring the truth of Christian salvation from different aspects. Rather, he's using a very common atheist...
Not sure what your point with the video is, trruth. I agree with the video, btw that humans are not 'born in sin'. Sin is a vague term.
On the other hand, I do believe humans are born into a falsified existence, and all soon (age of acccountability) become falsified themselves, but this is...
My fellow Christians seem to start with an ambiguity.....Jesus died in our place because we deserve death. (Why sin=death is the ambiguity)
My personal theology begins with a metaphysics which reduces everything to either true or false. Think of truth as a quality.
Let me preface: Genesis...
I'm confused. You appear to reject objectivity as "speculative metaphysics", yet post and ask for responses from....whom? If there is only you as a single subjective mind, how can you have experiences which teach that, "not everyone is equally adept at judging whether something is the case"...
Clever answer....I like this.
I think that in spiritual matters, any form of 'self-actualization' is self worship. Of course, you may be right and I wrong. I offer the an opposing view just as food for thought. What we find unappealing we simply dismiss anyway.
Possible, of course. But what you contend for is also exactly what one would expect to find--re the worship of self--based on writings much older than either one of us which warn of it. Wisdom, according to the Scriptures, seldom 'sounds' like wisdom to human ears.
Here's how it works: The atheist designs the arena into which theists are allowed to participate. There's only one simple rule: only matter is real. The atheist then sits back and in response to all questions concerning spiritual matters and concepts, asks repeatedly (as our friend logician...
With due respect, this seems just another condescending atheist worldview. The messgae takes different forms and expressions, but follows a basic theme: when will you deluded theists wake up and realize God is dead? And this with somewhat the same smugness many theists have (and do) use to...