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Not even God?
Pls clarify, you believe he can or you believe he can't?
What your describing or refuting is pretty much Calvinism, God hasn’t forced you to commit sin or do right upon conception, humanity has free will and God’s judgement acts in accordance with that will, judgement has been rendered in accordance with humanities will, it doesn’t force the will of humanity to either condemnation or salvation. God hasn’t already pre-condemned or saved anyone from birth. Your objection is only valid if I affirm that free will doesn’t exist like in Calvinism.
And so what if that's the case? It doesn't mean they're worthy of worship, because intelligence /=/ wisdomYou are entitled to what you think. I am only here to inform you that there could be someone much smarter than us that is doing something we don't understand.
And thus by that standard, the apologist for God could very well be wrong that the God they believe in exists or any God at all. Otherwise, you're not being honest or consistentTrue but they also have to acknowledge that they might not be correct due to the limitation of their current knowledge.
You seem to be confusing a respect for free will with forced contingency. He responds to human will when interacting with humans, if he doesn’t respond to human will, then there can be no real interaction between God and man. God doesn’t have to interact with people nor save them, he saves man because he wants to save man, not because he needs too, a quick example of this is when Christ says “unless you believe I AM he you will die in your sins” which is in John 8:24. God is not contingent on man, man is contingent on God, and God in his own love chooses to interact with man without violating their capacity for choice based on his own contingency to his own attributes such as being omnipotent. God does not need man’s faith, men are contingent on God whether they like it or not, God is not contingent on men, God is however contingent on his own will to save mankind from sin and grant them everlasting life.How can God be said to be almighty if it merely responds to human will? The whole thing smacks of Neil Gaiman's American Gods in that gods are contingent upon the faith of humans and as it falters, so does the power of those gods, new ones taking their place
Your again conflating actions that God does in accordance to human choice with subjection to human will, the two are not the same. God doesn’t need to save all men, he chooses too, God does not serve men, he grants them their merits according to their choices not their wants. For example the merits of sin are death, God will allow that to take place if man chooses it and he did, however that does not mean he forced it upon man, man chose it and got what he chose. God in response due to being omnipotent will give us a second chance at regaining what we lost through his Begotten Son Christ eternal. God is contingent on himself not on anyone else, just because man fell into sin and chose sin which God allowed that does not mean that God has to be forced to sit back and watch.The whole thing just makes God out to be little more than an advanced program that somehow made humans and yet is subject to that will, making the whole situation a contradiction of cosmic proportions
And so what if that's the case? It doesn't mean they're worthy of worship, because intelligence /=/ wisdom
I could definitely wrong about God, since I am limited. But I will say giving all the evidence, the probability of a creator is extremely high. Would like to know what you believe in (you set it as Buddhist, so you must believe in spiritual world, just not a creator?)And thus by that standard, the apologist for God could very well be wrong that the God they believe in exists or any God at all. Otherwise, you're not being honest or consistent
This is because you don't believe in after life. death in this world is not a finish, it is more like a timeout
God created the universe with freedom of events, and created free will. God at first appreciated creation, and later corrected it, but three child bearing families survived.
In Genesis Elohim says and behold it was good. Later He sends a flood. Noah's three sons and their wives repopulate the Earth.Really, and you have support in the Bible for that?
In Genesis Elohim says and behold it was good. Later He sends a flood. Noah's three sons and their wives repopulate the Earth.
In Genesis Elohim says and behold it was good. Later He sends a flood. Noah's three sons and their wives repopulate the Earth.
Genesis 7:7Were their wives on the ark really? can u show me a quote from the Bible that supports that?
Ok, so nothing from the Bible to support ur claim that the wives were actually on the ark?
You seem to be confusing a respect for free will with forced contingency. He responds to human will when interacting with humans, if he doesn’t respond to human will, then there can be no real interaction between God and man. God doesn’t have to interact with people nor save them, he saves man because he wants to save man, not because he needs too, a quick example of this is when Christ says “unless you believe I AM he you will die in your sins” which is in John 8:24. God is not contingent on man, man is contingent on God, and God in his own love chooses to interact with man without violating their capacity for choice based on his own contingency to his own attributes such as being omnipotent. God does not need man’s faith, men are contingent on God whether they like it or not, God is not contingent on men, God is however contingent on his own will to save mankind from sin and grant them everlasting life.
Your again conflating actions that God does in accordance to human choice with subjection to human will, the two are not the same. God doesn’t need to save all men, he chooses too, God does not serve men, he grants them their merits according to their choices not their wants. For example the merits of sin are death, God will allow that to take place if man chooses it and he did, however that does not mean he forced it upon man, man chose it and got what he chose. God in response due to being omnipotent will give us a second chance at regaining what we lost through his Begotten Son Christ eternal. God is contingent on himself not on anyone else, just because man fell into sin and chose sin which God allowed that does not mean that God has to be forced to sit back and watch.
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