What kind of a god do you believe in, who in His/Her omniscience, would create us just to condemn us??
The true living God does just that.
(2Pe 2:12 KJV) But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
2/3's of the globe is not Christian, and of that 2/3, the majority are not "Fundamentalists". Are we all to "go to hell?"
In Matthew 24:14, Jesus tells us He is not going to come back until after every ethnic group of people on the earth has an understandable witness of the gospel of the Kingdom of God. Upon hearing the gospel, each individual has the choice to either accept or reject it. God says that those who reject it will spend eternity in hell.
Also, in Revelation 5:9 & 7:9, it is written that there will be "...a great multitude, which no man could number, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne..." Heaven will house believers from every part of the world.
What kind of a god do you believe in, who in His/Her omniscience, would create us just to condemn us??
I believe in a God who became a human, suffered at the hands of humans, and was killed by them, all so that His death could be the payment for their sins? That is extremely loving. God is saving people who deserve to go to hell -- and we all deserve that. Remember that the same God that sends people to hell also died for them. If they reject what God has provided then what is God left to do?
God says it's a straight/narrow travel that leads to the prize of the calling and few that actually find Him as the Way. No, He didn't create people to condemn them to an eternity with a God void. That certainly isn't how He created Adam. When sin entered the picture, though, all born then inherited a lacking spiritual nature. Some folks just will to not come to the Light and condemn themselves(John 3). Isn't that generally what your Bible says?
As has been said here before.....what if the bible were written by men wanting to change and mold the masses of people to behave as they wished?
Yes....it has been said that Jesus spoke to the apostles, who then wrote what he told them to. But what if they mangled the info a little? What if they misunderstood what that voice was saying to them? What if they had their own alterior motives? Why is it easier to believe that:
" (he)performed many miracles, raised people from the dead, commanded a storm to be still and it obeyed, healed diseases, and rose from the dead Himself, "
than to believe that each religion has it's own path to God(dess)?
There is a book trilogy called Conversations With God. When I tell people about this book and how the author was doodling one day, asking questions about the troubles in his life and in the world, and some force commanded his hand to answer his questions (that force being God(dess) )people think it's blaspheme and *%#&¤?§*....but how is it any different than how the bible was supposedly written? Except that the "force" tells of a unconditionally loving Creator who will never judge or chastise us.
Your point on the using the term God(ess) is well taken.
Little known to most Christians is that women took leadership positions in the early church and were especially prominent in 3 early Christian sects.... the Marcionites, Montanists and Carpocrations.
The early Christian movement showed a remarkable openness towards women and treated men and women as equals. However, after about the year 200, women's roles devolved to that of onlookers in the Orthodox church. No more priestly or episcopal roles were to be found.
Remember Jesus himself defied Jewish convention by talking openly with women and including them among his companions.
However as attributed to Paul:
1 Corinthians 14:34
women should keep silent in the churches, for they are not allowed to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.
As in so many other areas, Paul's questionable views won out and women were religated to the back of the bus.
Your point on the using the term God(ess) is well taken.
Little know to most Christians is that women took leadership positions in the early church and were especially prominent in 3 early Christian sects.... the Marcionites, Montanists and Carpocrations.
The early Christian movement showed a remarkable openness towards women and treated men and women as equals. However, after about the year 200, women's roles devolved to that of onlookers in the Orthodox church. No more priestly or episcopal roles were to be found.
Remember Jesus himself defied Jewish convention by talking openly with women and including them among his companions.
However as attributed to Paul:
1 Corinthians 14:34
women should keep silent in the churches, for they are not allowed to speak, but should be subordinate, as even the law says.
As in so many other areas, Paul's questionable views won out and women were religated to the back of the bus.
...than to believe that each religion has it's own path to God(dess)?
If all religions are different paths to the same place then why do the paths contradict each other? Does truth contradict itself? Let's review the teachings of just three religions:
Buddhism is pantheistic and says there is no personal God and everyone can reach Godlikeness on his own. Islam says that Jesus was just a prophet and not the only way to God. Christianity says that there is a personal God and that the only way to Him is through Jesus (John 14:6). If these three religions are, as you say, different paths to the same place, then why do they contradict each other? Does truth contradict itself?
...than to believe that each religion has it's own path to God(dess)?
If all religions are different paths to the same place then why do the paths contradict each other? Does truth contradict itself? Let's review the teachings of just three religions:
Buddhism is pantheistic and says there is no personal God and everyone can reach Godlikeness on his own. Islam says that Jesus was just a prophet and not the only way to God. Christianity says that there is a personal God and that the only way to Him is through Jesus (John 14:6). If these three religions are, as you say, different paths to the same place, then why do they contradict each other? Does truth contradict itself?
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