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Are you God? Do you understand what he thought? It is not your place to understand God. You will never understand Him no matter how many books you read or how much better you think you could have done.
If you take a child and nurture it in perfection and without the knowledge of sin and evil it will in a sense be perfect. Does that child have free will? Completely, but it doesnt know a thing outside of a perfect world. It did not have the opportunity to do wrong because it did not know wrong existed, or what doing wrong is. And once that child is let out of its shelter and does sin it will be its fault.It will have consequences for its actions weather he knew he was doing wrong or not. You can say why did God make the tree, or why did he create lucifer knowing all this would happen all you want. The garden was perfect. It was that shelter. They did not know what wrong was. Free will can not exist however if there is no wrong to be done. The tree was there to give man free will. I encourage you to do some studying on Jesus Christ. He was tempted just as Eve was. He was tempted just like you and just like me. Eve did not have to take the fruit. Nothing forced her or made her take it. He did know exactly what would happen. He knows the number of hairs on your head. He wants a relationship with you. That is why salvation is a free gift. You have to desire a relationship with your creator. He does not force you to have this. He wants a free ended relationship with you. He wants you to love him. If he did not create the tree we would be robots, loving God not because we wanted to, but because we had to. Stop blaming God for the choices you have made yourself. Your choices have consequences good and bad.
God gave us free will. We make decisons because we are wicked sinful people. That is our doing not Gods. Stop blaming God and see that you are a sinner and you are the one that is doing wrong. I will tell you right now I am a terrible person who has made many bad decisions that have affected my life with a tremendous amount of suffering. God did not make me suffer. The decisions I made are what caused me suffering.
Saying That God is the creator of suffering is incredibly ignorant. God did not create suffering. He created a perfect world. However He created man in his image with the gift of free will. Everything that has happened in our incredibly sinful world is mans doing. God did not force people to make the decisions they did. He simply allows it because any involvement from God denies humans free will. He does not contradict himself. This is such a simple answer. Choices have consequences. If you can prove to me that my choices have no consequences I will gladly hear you out. Until you can do that quit blaming God for decisions you, and others including myself have made.
Men are different than women. That is the bottom line. Men will be better than women at physical things because they are DESIGNED to be better at them. Just like men can never have children. We are different that is it. There is no real debate here. It is ignorant to say which is better.
God gave you free choice. That is what makes you human. God does not give you the thoughts in your head. That is the beauty of free will. God doesnt send people to hell. People send themselves to hell. They have the Free will to believe whatever they please. God does not force anyone to believe in Him. He does however give you exactly what the world does. Every choice you make has consequences. You can not dispute that. Hell is simply the consequence of not accepting God. His system was perfect by the way. He designed a perfect sinless world. Man fell and as a result of that falling hell has to exist. He created man with free will and if he wouldnt have created something for them to fall in they would be robots. God very simply created order and purpose. The most simple answer is that you cant deny that your choices have consequences.
Why would you say "you only serve to repel people from the Christian faith?" Have you studied it at all? Why does a teaching of love offend you? Study the teachings of Christ. Regardless if you believe He was divine or not; If you abide by the Bibles teaching you will live a much better life. The teaching of love your neighbor as yourself is so simple. "All have sinned and come short of Gods Glory" Romans 3:23. why should that offend you? Unless of course you are telling me you are perfect? I will tell you right now I am a rotten sinner. I have done things that are incredibly wrong just like everyone else on the planet. "There are none righteous, no not one" Romans 3:10. Am I saying I am now perfect? No, not at all. But perfection is what I strive for. Being covered by Grace is saying when I do fall, which I will, I can ask forgiveness from a loving God. I am human. I am a devout christian with a very wide background in many other religions. Being a Christian does not mean that I will not be tested because I will I promise you. But what I do know just as you do is that all my choices have consequences. That means there is order and purpose in the world. When you do something that you know is wrong you are convicted. Why? where does that come from? Research what the Christian faith really is and then tell me why in the world you would repel people from that. It teaches love, and to put other people before yourself. I greatly encourage you to do your homework and then tell me why the Christian faith is so offending to you. Do not look to people who say they are "Christians" look to the Bible and then tell me God doesn't exist.
Were you there when the world began? Were any of the scientific theorists alive when the world began? I think not. Are you suggesting because things don't make sense in science that God is completely dis proven? He is God. He doesn't have to obey the rules of science because he is beyond them. Would you say there is purpose in the universe? Do you have a theory that explains what happen after you die? Do you fear it? Does believing in science give you comfort? There is so much support for creationism. I encourage you to look for it. You are working so hard to dis prove creationism that you take little time to see anything else. There is science behind creationism as well. If you were to look you could find a debate for anything you want. There are always two sides. You are neglecting to remember that evolution itself is still a theory. Why in the world should not only creation, but many other theory's be taught in school. Teaching only evolution makes children ignorant robots who blindly believe the first thing they hear. I am a devout Christian. I was not always this way. I was the blind ignorant kid who believed what I was told, researched it and would have been on the other side of this debate very quickly. I encourage you to present any topic and I will gladly make you doubt what you believe.
Very simple answer. The Quran very clearly teaches conversion by the sword. Fight against them by means Of it (the Quran) a great fight Surah Al-Furqan (Ch. 25, V,53) The so called "Radical Islamists" are doing what they are taught in the Quran. In close the few Muslims that are denouncing it are realistically picking parts of their religion to believe and not believe.
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