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John 7:33-34 Jesus said, "I am with you for only a short time, and then I go to the one who sent me. You will look for me, bu you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come".
You will give me back my life....
Originally posted by Broncs453
Stop clinging to your precious "God is a good god who receives everybody unconditionally" and we'll all have "immortality". No, we won't. The part of life we are in now is the transition phase, where God has given man the ability to choose, and will ultimately allow him to choose whether or not he accepts God and is willing to live under His rules. God doesn't owe anybody anything, and God's not being "mean" by bringing on the destruction that is coming. He will be proving that He is who He says He is, and give you a chance to accept or reject.
Originally posted by TheColdDragon
Originally posted by Broncs453
Furthermore, to address the "God doesn't owe us anything" spiel, actually, God has a responsibility to his creation. Like children, we do not owe God for our coming to be. We did not choose to be made, we were made by its hand in its image.
We were created. It is our choice whether we appreciate being made, or whether we do not.
God is either unconditional in its love, or it puts conditions on its creations. The latter is, definitionally, evil... because a Supreme Being would be able to create a situation which conditions were not necessary for. Thusly, the conditions (if they exist) are artifice for the sake of punishing certain created beings, unjustly.
All things under creation is within the control and design of God. There is nothing inside creation that is not dictated by God's rules. God can change the rules. God allows evil to exist.
You don't have to agree... but I believe God is Good. Our Creator Loves us without condition, because to love only some of us and to shun others would make god Petty and selfish.
God has not put conditions on us. He gave us rules just as our parents did while growing up. They are teaching us right from wrong and He is showing us how to live in completel peace and happiness by giving us the 10 commandments.
You are correct, God does love us all and He shuns no one, it is mankind that shuns him and rejects him.
He doesn't have a responsibility to us, we have a responsibility to Him. Yes didn't choose to be born, but he put us here for a reason. It is our choice to follow His way of good or allow Satan to influence us to evil.
Your also correct, He does allow evil, but it is to teach mankind a lesson that we can't rule ourselves. So way back when He alotted man 6,000 years where He has only worked with so many, and those so many were in obedience to Him and not Satan. So therefore, evil will run rampant until He sends His son, Jesus, back to rule this earth, in which therefore he will intervene, after we have had OUR time to rule ourselves and prove that NOTHING we do will bring peace and happiness.
Originally posted by TheColdDragon
Unconditional means there is no way to forbid God's love, not denying Christ, not murdering someone, not going on a rampage and a raping spree.
Unconditional.
Without condition.
Originally posted by Firestorm
Lets go back to Bible school 101 for a sec...
God created man to love God and not to fear God.
Originally posted by TheColdDragon
Firstly, as I mentioned in the post above... there are only three options presented when considering God. Only three. 1) God is benevolent and all loving. 2) God is a bastard, and is evil. 3) God does not exist.
Rationally, if you are to consider what God is described as being, and what it means to be a Supreme Being with power over all creation... You cannot come to any other possibility other than the three that I have mentioned.
Furthermore, to address the "God doesn't owe us anything" spiel, actually, God has a responsibility to his creation. Like children, we do not owe God for our coming to be. We did not choose to be made, we were made by its hand in its image.
We were created. It is our choice whether we appreciate being made, or whether we do not.
God is either unconditional in its love, or it puts conditions on its creations. The latter is, definitionally, evil... because a Supreme Being would be able to create a situation which conditions were not necessary for. Thusly, the conditions (if they exist) are artifice for the sake of punishing certain created beings, unjustly.
All things under creation is within the control and design of God. There is nothing inside creation that is not dictated by God's rules. God can change the rules. God allows evil to exist.
Having spent countless years rehashing arguments over the many, myriad viewpoints concerning God in philosophy, I have come to the conclusion already cited.
Three possibilities. No more, no less.
Originally posted by gnipp gnopp
Yes! Love without condition. Love with no boundaries! All encompassing love! A parent will correct a toddler for playing with matches out of love regardless of whether the child is happy about it or not. That's called tough love. Prepare yourself dragon (and you other spoiled children) cause your about to get a whole lotta lovin!