A God that is love? Devil is evil?

Eddie.Brooke · Post by **Eddie.Brooke** » Fri Apr 16, 2010 8:26 pm

My Fiance and i have come up with many questions between the two of us. and boy am i glad i found this forum.

ok here are the questions and i really don't want to start a whole lot of crap but i welcome it at the same time.

1. If God is supposed to be all love and forgiveness then how do you explain the following?
sodom and gammora (forgive my spelling), the FLOOD, his Only son, Hitler, Osama Bin Laden, world war 1 and 2, war in Iraq, ok war in general.
now it would seem to me that if "God" is love then he would stop the pain and suffering that comes with death in general. as far as i can think of there have been more killings and deaths done in the name if "God" than any other label.

2. if Satan "Lucifer" the Devil what ever you want to name him / her. then why is it that people that pray/worship him / her are usually the nicest people you will ever meet. and are 9 times out of 10 the quiet ones that stay out of everyone else's business. and when was the last time that you heard in the news that a bunch of satanic people were burning down a church?

now just to add my a little bit of my own piece of mind. there are all these religious groups and or religious affiliated groups that do nothing but as a collective (not on the person to person level because not everyone within a label is as zealous as the label describes) seem to do nothing but get in trouble by doing things that are usually either deadly (lynching, church burning, genocide, ect.) illegal ( cross burnings, vandalism, ect.) and so on.

i feel like i am rambling here so i will leave it at this for now and if needed i will add as responses come. thanks in advance for any and all comments and questions.

LiamOS · Post by **LiamOS** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 12:14 pm

The chemicals do control your decisions, but that doesn't necessarily make it predetermined.

Kuan · Post by **Kuan** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 2:59 pm

Okay, now I understand what you were saying.

LiamOS · Post by **LiamOS** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 2:59 pm

Now that seems to make a whole two of us.

Kuan · Post by **Kuan** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 3:03 pm

AkiThePirate wrote:Now that seems to make a whole two of us.

Yep,

Baz · Post by **Baz** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:53 pm

Just finished reading through this thread and found it very interesting. I seem to agree with ChaosBorders comments for the most part and would appreciate a comment on this post.

I donâ€™t know if this should be a separate post but as it is a question directly related to this thread maybe its allowed.

What if God cannot do anything about what actually goes on in the world?

Is it not possible that God is the reason for all creation a part of all things and the author of the rules of nature, BUT is unable to beak those rules without destroying nature its self?

Kuan · Post by **Kuan** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:58 pm

Baz wrote:Just finished reading through this thread and found it very interesting. I seem to agree with ChaosBorders comments for the most part and would appreciate a comment on this post.
I donâ€™t know if this should be a separate post but as it is a question directly related to this thread maybe its allowed.

What if God cannot do anything about what actually goes on in the world?

Is it not possible that God is the reason for all creation a part of all things and the author of the rules of nature, BUT is unable to beak those rules without destroying nature its self?

YES!!! God can create but he cannot break his rules. If he broke his rules, he would no longer be god because he is no longer perfect! Thats how I see it at least!

mgb · Post by **mgb** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:49 am

I don't believe that God punishes people. God allows people to experience the consequences of turning away from goodness. If God did not allow these things to happen worse things would happen.