Is God that cruel?
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God has taught me a whole lot through the Bible. Have you read Lee Strobel's The Case For Christ? If not, I recommend it.
Yes...the bible just tells you what to do, to became a better person ..but it doesn't show you how to do it. It tells you "be good" but doesn.t show you how
I would say more than a little cruel but a eternity of cruelty.
God is a God of mercy. He is not merciless.
The dead who have not been freely given a new born again spirit will not rise to new spirit life on the last day. Those who have born again will rise to new spirit life.
You could say different kinds of mercy . Both eternal
Why do you think it is cruel for G-d to respect peoples choice to go to hell. G-d said choose my Son have eternal life or go to hell; people chose not to. I do not understand at all how you blame G-d for people choosing hell!?!
"...with the purified you show yourself pure; and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous." Psalm 18:26.
Therefore it is a commentary on us, not God.
Therefore it is a commentary on us, not God.
Ah, now I see. This is your shtick. Predestination. Do you find this principle central to your presentation of the Gospel (if ever presented)? "I would like to share the Gospel with all of you, but do know, some percentage of you will not be saved tonight." Talk about real assurance, lol.
I lost interest when you hoped to impugn my thoughts using the derogatory phrase, shtick.
Excellent scripture if you'd have pasted the entirety of that part of Paul's letters to the Romans speaking of The Creator Is Making Known His Wrath And His Mercy In Humankind
19 Therefore you will say to me, “Why then does He still find-fault? For who has resisted His will?” 20 O human, on the contrary, who are you, the one answering-back to God? The thing formed will not say to the one having formed it, “Why did you make me like-this?”, will it? 21 Or does not the potter have authority over the clay to make from the same lump one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? 22 But what if God, wanting to demonstrate His wrath and to make-known His power, bore with much patience vessels of wrath having been prepared for destruction, 23 and did so in order that He might make-known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy which He prepared-beforehand for glory— 24 even us whom He called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
The whole of the chapter is a very good read.
Isn’t that from Delphi? “God” isn’t good and bad. “God” is balance. When there is unbalance then bad occurs. We are definitely not privileged to all information but He has left clues.
So no one can convince you that Jesus is the ONLY way, and that those who reject Him will be destroyed, yet you come to a Christian site and peddle reincarnation?
Of course you're aware she cannot do that.
