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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 1 decade ago

If God is omnipotent and loving then why did he chose to create hell for the unbelievers?

Scenario 1: If an all knowing God gives free will to a man who turns into a serial killer and kills a child, is God loving or evil, since God knew in advance the crime would occur?Scenario 2. If a psychiatrist give a gun to a mentally ill serial killer to test the man, and the mentally ill man kills a child, is the psychiatrist a loving or evil man since the psychiatrist knew the man was a serial killer? Why is there a moral double standard when the power is with God, but both scenarios lead to the killing of an innocent person? Would you put a serial killer and a child together? Why would an all loving God put them together on this earth?Scenario 3 If a man rapes an atheist woman, and the man later converts to Christianity, why would a loving God allow the man to enter heaven but condemn the woman to Hell? That is not a moral or just judgment.Scenario 4 Why would a loving God send unbelievers to Hell and believers to Heaven? Is God not omnipotent but bound to the justice system of Heaven and Hell or is God a power hungry dictator?These scenarios show that God is as morally flawed as human nature, God's wisdom is completely unattainable to the human mind, or God is actually a mechanistic system and blind to life.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    "Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!

    But He loves you."

    ~George Carlin

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    You are well on the road to disproving this and disproving that. Religion is a system for people who want to believe in God. It is not an impartial debate or a debate of any kind.

    For thousands of years philosophers have pointed out the problem of evil. Usually they claimed to prove God.s existence or his goodness. But of course they were debating it to begin with.

    It is really absurd to expect God to be great beyond our understanding and also that everything be easily accessible for our limited minds. Cave men with iPads.

    I don't know why there is evil. It seems to me things would work just as well and better without it. If you see God, then you can ask him.

    When you get up in the morning you open your eyes. Something else exists outside yourself or not? In it you live and breathe and have your life. That some people could speculate ( and it is always speculation) that creation is the work of a being like us but absolutely better is a creative approach to life. It makes sense to me. But what about the opposite, he who claims to know that life is dead matter?

    The case for God has hardly been exhaustively studied and failed as some historians would have us believe. Very few believers have any motivation to engage in these debates. Science leaves God out of its calculations, which is not the same as dismissing God. However, for the scientist, it must be a great convenience to be an atheist. I can agree that life seems mechanistic, but what about death? Can you really say that you live a lifetime which is going to end in death as evidence of the universe's predictability? Here we are bugs on an asteroid and you find the universe devoid of spontaneity?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Okay, I am calling BS on the guy who just blamed his imaginary gods imaginary enemy. That devil thing supposedly can't do anything unless that god thing says so. That being said, the imaginary god would be ultimately responsible for everything good and bad. So now I am going to wait for one of you people with the imaginary friend to come and say otherwise. Before you do, realize that if you say it's not imaginary god's fault, you are admitting your imaginary friend is not all powerful at all. Last time I heard, the imaginary devil didn't discriminate on who it targeted. That being said, if you believe in this imaginary god, and the imaginary devil is roaming around doing whatever it does to whoever it feels like, with your imaginary god's permission of course, the blame for that couldn't be placed on the imaginary devil. It just means your imaginary god is a non-discriminating a$$h0Le that realizes no matter what he does to you, you won't blame him because you're just plain gullible.

  • 1 decade ago

    Have any of these scenarios actually happened?

    In what universe would a trained psychologist/psychiatrist give a mental patient, who is deemed unfit for society, a weapon through which he could kill?

    Do you need scenarios to question the power of God? If you believe in him, shouldn't that be enough?

    And if you don't, that's enough for me.

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  • 1 decade ago

    You have no idea what your talking about.... You blame everything on God but you don't realize that Satan is the one who causes those scenarios... He wants people to see God as a bad person so you won't believe in God and go to hell with Satan... Satan is trying to get as many people to go to hell with him because thats his purpose in this world.... And if you choose to go his way then that's you... Not God...

    For the guy on the bottom read the bible before talking about God... You make yourself look pathetic because you don't anything about the word of God.. Im not here to fight I'm here to say what I believe... And as the good Christian I will pray for you so God can reach your heart and maybe one day you can reach the kingdom of heaven... Please don't offend me and my believes... Have a good day...

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    because he loves you so much that if you don't do things exactly the way he wants he will see that you burn in agony for eternity. Nice guy huh?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    he is loving only to those who believe in him.

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