As a hell-bound atheist, why did God create me?
As God was apparently creating me...he must've known what would become of me. I mean, he's "Omnipotent" and all...right?
So, as he is deciding "Today, I'm gonna whip up Gus the Atheist", surely he knows that my end will be eternal hellfire, right?
And he apparently loves me too. So he's creating a being that he apparently loves, that is bound by his (God's, that is) conviction to spend eternity in hell.
Why?
David, Karl et al...you're missing the point.
Maybe someday I'll "wake up", maybe I won't. God, though, already knows..
He knew before I was created. The implication is that he made a conscious decision to create me (or any other atheist) as hell-bound before we were even born. He knew whether or not we would change.
So why give us life at all?
OK Either God knows everything...including my future...and created me knowing that I would never "find" him, or he doesn't know everything.
If you have faith, I'd think you would take the time to sort out what it really means.
Seeker, stop answering my questions if you're simply going to ignore what they ask and write down whatever blabber you feel like typing out.
Reading Comprehension is a valuable skill.
This question has NOTHING TO DO with free will, people. Again, READING COMPREHENSION. Use it.
no1home, you're not even trying with this one then, eh?
David...oh David...I really wonder about you sometimes.
You're not answering the question, friend. What you've done is basically said to me that my sincere question is not valid, because I'm an atheist.
You're saying that in my quest to understand your god, I must give up on making sense out of some things and simply accept that "that's the way it is".
That's not how I am. That's not how your god made me. My inquisitive, mathematical mind needs to know some things. You're never going to get through to this mind unless you can clear up the murkiness in your professed belief system. So please, stop preaching to me. If you want to win me over, answer the question.
Rebecca, do not presume to know anything about me at all. My questions are driven by a desire to understand your belief in a god that I cannot make sense out of. What you are doing is ignoring the question in favor of trying to be witty and insult me. I've got news for you: it didn't work. I see right through you.
If you really believe, defend your belief by answering the question. Not by copping out, or ignoring what the question says, or by painting over it with "FREE WILL!". Answer the damned question.
And Christine, I'm happier as an atheist than I ever was as a Christian. I think it's the internal honesty that I love the most. Ya see, even as a Christian...I don't think I ever believed. That hat never fit.
So same to you...do not presume to know a thing about me. Just answer the question.
Oh and Christine, please think a little bit about that analogy, and why it makes no sense whatsoever to the topic and hand.
8>@)(04: Oh I know I'm the cause of my hell-boundedness, should it actually be the case. However unlikely I consider it, if I'm there at God's door and he asks if I accept the responsibility for not finding him, I'll say "Given the evidence I had, I feel I made the right choice. If hell is the result, the so be it".
I'm not saying that god caused it. I'm saying that he KNEW it would happen...and that he still chose to make me anyhow. Why?
Why create something that's only fitting end in your eyes is to be burned and tortured eternally?