aiki,
Some choice, complete subservience to a petty and cruel God or eternal suffering. Gee, decisions, decisions.
Some choice, complete subservience to a petty and cruel God or eternal suffering. Gee, decisions, decisions.
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Your problem seems to be with the distorted vision of "heaven and hell" and God's relationship with his people. presumably (if you are an exChristian) that's the vision your church sold you, but it's a distorted one.Catherineanne,
God did not create beings with the sole purpose of suffering? Then why did he create Hell?
Is any kind of true love you know conditional? Would you throw your children into a place of eternal suffering and torment if they don't worship, serve and obey your every whim? That doesn't sound like love to me. That sounds like something a saddistic tyrant would do.
The wording of your question presumes that God causes it, which is not the case. The vast majority of suffering and misery is the result of the actions of men. You'd be better off asking them what the justification is, but they probably wouldn't have an adequate answer either.XChristian said:My original question was basically if you were God how would you justify all the suffering and misery in the world.
Who's to say it's pointless? Pain serves a very important function. It alerts us to danger or trouble. It let's you know when you put your hand down on the hot burner on your stove. It let's you know when there is something wrong in your body. Likewise, the pain and suffering that we see in the world reminds us that we live in a world that has fallen from the perfection of God's original creation. Fallen through no fault of his own. It's a world that is in trouble because of it's rejection of God and the principles he would have us live by, and those are choices that men make. Thankfully, God has put a plan in action that will one day remedy the problem. Pain and suffering will no longer be a part of our world. This is the promise he has made through the Lord Jesus and it's available to any who will take him up on the offer.Or in other words if God is good as he and you claim why is there so much pointless misery and suffering in the world?
Yup, that's a pretty rotten choice alright. But, it doesn't actually describe the choice that faces you. Moreover, the way you've characterized God is, at least from the Christian perspective, completely in error also.aiki,
Some choice, complete subservience to a petty and cruel God or eternal suffering. Gee, decisions, decisions.