If god made man - here's how it goes. God, all powerful, is bored out of his mind. He makes the earth and Man. He then watches us like Reality TV. He dicks with us, plays with us, slaughters us, and toys with us. Then he decides "The hell with it" and leaves us alone for two thousand years or so, sitting back and sipping a God Lite and laughing at all of our travesty's. In all of the going ons Satan must have been a rouge worker - he went along one day and gave the most EVIL VILE HORRID GIFT EVER! The gift of Knowledge. Oh good gravy, KNOWLEDGE IS EVIL! EVIL I SAY! Adam and Ever were the first ones for a porno - when that failed he went with reality TV. Satan, 15 deaths, all tests of humanity and god. God? Eh, if he made us, and thus controls all - a billion or so if you count disease and weather as "God". So who's the good guy? The dude who rebelled and gave us knowledge, and constantly questions authority, kinda like the founding fathers did - or God, the omnipresent narcissist who obviously loves watching the HSN network - and that ain't Home Shopping either. It's Human Stupidity. Wooo! Wooo! Go God Go! See God Run! Death to all rebels! Rejoin the English Monarchy! There can only be one god and one king! /Satire
LOL, i can see why that didn't work out. I mean, there weren't any lubricants back then to shove that big ass apple inside, what did they expect ?!
It's not for us to judge the reason people die - the time for a person to die is only decidable by God. He's the only one with the whole picture. We're told that in the last days, tempests would increase and the waters and winds would rage and there would be high death among us, but if we're righteous, we'll be protected. That doesn't mean we won't die, but it means we won't suffer. If one dies, it is their time to go. (Except for murders, abortions, etc)
lol, I'm drowing isn't like suffering at all its probably pleasant man, and you guys think muslim fanatics are crazy because they think they get virgins or whatever. umm is god all powerful and knowing or not, he should know who is going to murder people before he creates them, but yet he makes them anyway?
"push likewise extracted verses that support their particular view". Yeah. The Bible's view. Funny that! Col
What I said IS in fact my answer. Even the living prophet of God does not understand all his ways (if he did, would he not in fact be God himself?) - some things we must just trust him in faith on. It's yet another reason we are down here on Earth. Never before will the Earth have seen the kind of weather it is going to see until Christ comes again. There's the difference. Maybe Again, not for us to judge whether that person was righteous or not. No, I don't. Because humans have free will. We chose to come down here, some for the right reasons, others not. Most murderers *likely* came down to Earth for the wrong reason, again, not for us to judge. By judging them, we let their salvation determine ours. But I just addressed it perfectly validly... UNLESS you give your creations FREE WILL so they become responsible for their own actions.
It all comes down to the faulty logic of blaming the teacher just because they knew the student would fail the test but gave it to the student anyway.
After reading the response of the non-religious and religious I am now officially proud to proclaim myself an atheist.
Gee, you must be super clever!!! To be able to deduce out of a single thread of info enough information to decide the rest of your eternal future!?!