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Is God only for good? Is he not for bad? Particularly when Devil is his own creation?
Don't tell me what Bible says about it. Other religions also claim that they are right. Bible is a good example of circular reasoning.
If I have nobody to support my claim that 'I am a very very good person.' what I will say is this ' I am the only Good One and there is nothing better than me. Whoever doesn't believe me is a devil.'
Your God has no other proof to support His claim that 'I am the only God.' Therefore He says that "Whoever doesn't believe me is from Devil.'
In fact Devil is also a creation of God and if someone is from Devil he too is from God. There is no proof that there is only one God. And if there is, it is Nature. Even Hebrew Scriptures use a word for God which means Nature. There is nothing good or bad in this world because world is made of both the things and no one thing is better than other. Good and bad or right and wrong are relative terms and what is good today may become bad after some time and vice verse. What is right for you may be wrong for others and what is right for others may be wrong for you. We people and the society we live in decide something as a good or bad. But Nature / God doesn't think like that. Both the things are same for God / Nature. If a good person accidentally falls from 10th floor of a building he will surly die like a criminal who jumps down from a top of a building to kill himself. If a Lion or a Tiger thinks that it is not good to kill other animals and stops killing them it wil die hungry. For it's survival it is necessary that it kills other animals and there is nothing bad. If there is a Lion / Tiger God, that God will bless Lion / Tiger for killings. Because you are human and because you are born and brought up in the Society that thinks that murder is bad and helping poor is good you are bound to think that way. But remember God / Nature is not human being and it doesn't think like us. Just consider yourself as a Lion and tell me whether you won't kill innocent animals?
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I disagree with eo785 and I voted my disagreement for him. Those who believe Mary and Rosary are not even 25% of worlds population. So they won't say Rosary and they won't believe Mary. There are not only Christians who don't believe Mary but there are Muslims Buddhists Hindus and many others. Do you mean that they will all go to Hell? If a person kills sombody and then Prays Rosary will he go to heaven? Is God an idiot?
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- 8 years ago
God did not say "'I am the only God; Whoever doesn't believe me is from Devil". God created us because He loved us, and because He loved us He also gave us free will - the ability to do good or evil, to love Him back or not, to help others love Him or not. In the same way he lets us decide for ourselves, the same way He does not condemn us to hell for doing something bad, instead we choose where we want to go by how we treated and loved and followed Him when we had the chance.
Look at it this way: If you had a child that you loved with all your heart, would you lock that child up in a prison and only let that child do certain things and command that child to love you? No, (I hope not) you would let the child learn to love you on its own and therefore love you even more because he/she exercised that love on his/her own.
You say the devil is a creation of God, and so he is. But the devil was not created evil. Nothing is created evil by God. It is only through the free will bestowed on His creations because He loves us that there is now a devil and a following of other fallen angels.
If a good person accidentally falls from a building, yes he will die the same way but that is where the similarities end. He will not be judged the same way, because he did not have the same intent in his heart as the criminal.
The lion and the tiger are animals, given free will but not a spirit like God gave us. He gave us the animals for our pleasure and to keep us company, that is all. Once you start comparing us to animals, you're losing the idea.
And are we really brought up in a society that says murder is bad and helping poor is good? Thousands of babies die every day through murder and it is labeled a "choice", while many more are starving and dying in other parts of the world because they are poor, and who is there to help them? Not this society, that's for sure. Why? Because there is a significant lack of God or faith in our society that is considered the norm. So before you start making these grandiose assumptions, please analyze what you are really saying.
Listen to eo785. The rosary is a sure way to get to Heaven (if that's where you would like to go), if it is prayed faithfully and fervently.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Wrong again. Let me explain to you what circular reasoning is:
You Christians take the Bible to be God's word and the ultimate authority, so tell me why I should believe in Him, but don't use the Bible.
As to your question, it has the same answer as the last 10,000 times it's been asked - capacity for choice does not equate to evil. Your parents didn't want you to be this way - you chose it for yourself
- Anonymous8 years ago
the devil is a useful tool nothing more (without his persuasion Jesus would not have been crucified)
The devil just tempts....people choose
all evil in this world comes from the heart of man
- Anonymous8 years ago
my stance with God is that God is good and bad. I believe God punishes me for every little mistake.