The first post of my topic God and His Children was pretty weak, and is definately turning people off. But now it has developed into something that I think needs more people’s opinions. I’m trying to prove contradictions in christianity, so don’t bring any other metaphysical possibilites and whatnot into it. Here it is:
My big point in the thread was that god created man. He either knew that some men would go to and can’t blame them because he created them (he started the big chain of causality) or he didn’t know what man would do because he had given them free will and life is just an experiment (screening operation) for his amusement.
And also:
Christians are against the penalty, but they accept . What’s up with this?
??? You say you’re trying to prove contradictions in christianity, but you’re not interested in other metaphysical possibilites, and then you ask a metaphysical question. ???
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. I meant metaphysical possibilities that don’t follow the rules of Christianity, like, you can’t say I’m wrong because there could be a temporary . Christianity says ation is eternal.
I’m sorry, but it is difficult to understand how you are framing your question. For instance, what christian ‘rules’ are you suggesting? I’d suggest that you re-phrase your question with better definition of your terms.
It’s simple. The “rules” are whatever Christianity claims to be true. I’m simply trying to prove that some of the things Christianity claims to be true are absurd and contradictory. I hope this little mixup doesn’t do the same thing that my first post in the other thread did.
[size=150]Ok, ok, I think I’ve finally got it here. [/size]
God created us. He gave us free will. He says he doesn’t make our choices for us and that we choose to leave him or stay with him. But how can he blame us for our choices? When he gave us free will, didn’t he give a thought to how it would turn out? “Turning away from him” was definately one of our options. Didn’t he see that? When he created us, he should’ve had the responsibility to think about what might happen and not punish us for the inevitable. This is the absurdity I want to point out. He is punishing us for the unavoidable. This heaven and hell business is desgusting.