Now, that's an angle I haven't considered before. So, man's deceitful nature is just QUALITY CONTROL to cull the defective units in his humankind manufacturing process. I guess quality control is important, but I wouldn't expect a perfect creator to need quality control.
Anyone of us who have created anything learn that creation is a process. If it is not perfect, the creation is not yet finished until that final, perfect touch.
He is not. His love is the most amazing feat we will ever experience.
Something that is still a work in process is not flawed.
You can't truly have free will if the consequences of doing evil are never allowed to be experienced. IOW, do I really have the free will to jump off the roof of a tall building if every time I do, I float gently to the ground instead of plummeting to my death, killing anyone walking beneath me? Do I truly have free will if, every time I attempt to kill my neighbor, my attempt is thwarted, and he/she survives? God gave us free will and did not create us as robots, unable to disobey Him. We, as a result, suffer the consequences.
Our destiny is heaven....But no one will be frog-marched into the presence of God. We all have a choice.
Or, a typically unsophisticated concept of what anything nearly like a "creator of all and everything" would actually have to be like. This is the problem, as well, with every religion. They are at best very poor indicators toward something they know they don't understand and at worst straight up blasphemy.
More assured speech about an entirely uncertain topic.
Most Christians don't agree with you. You're like a new-age Christian. An eclectic.
Ahhh. An assured conclusion about me by someone who doesn't even know me.
You're right BULLDOG, because you're allowing your conscience to guide you. If there's a God, that's where you'll encounter him/her, in your mind and heart. Religions distract from and conceal the truth.
Studying the Bible and the Early Church Fathers, I suspect I am more like an old-age Christian. I suspect most Catholics do agree with me, as the Catholic faith and its roots in Judaism are the sources of my studies. (Judaism and Rabbis for the Old Testament.)
A work in progress? You have no idea how many times I've heard trite "memorized" remarks like that in my search for evidence of God. How many babies do you think have been born since Cain was born? Each and every one of those babies was a chance to correct the flaw that could destine them to eternal damnation.
Another poster who reads what he wants to see, not what is there. No conclusion about a person was made, simple an observation about a phrase concerning an utterly vague subject.Ahhh. An assured conclusion about me by someone who doesn't even know me.
Actually, it is a given that God is beyond human comprehension, but we still all seek a fuller understanding all the same. The one thing I know with certainty is that God is love and goodness. The best analogy I have is that just as darkness cannot exist in light, nor can hate exist where there is love, nor evil where there is goodness. If the destiny is light, why choose darkness; if the destiny is goodness, why choose evil; if the destiny is love, why choose anything but love?
Ok. Let's put this in realistic terms. All parents want their children to obey them of their own free will. He sees his kid playing in the street. Does that loving parent get the kid out of the street, or does he just stand back and watch a car run over his child? Do parents love their kids more than God loves us?
