On Jan 23, 2007, at 12:52 PM, Charlie Coleman wrote:
> As for the torture (in Hell I presume you mean), I don't believe
> God will
> be the one there with a pitchfork.
But he's the one making the call. I'll bet that Saddam wasn't the
one who actually did the killing and raping, either - does that make
him any less culpable?
> Some things in Biblical teaching don't sound 'fair' to me. But I will
> submit my sense of fairness to God's, whereas you reject God's
> existence
> because he doesn't fit your sense of logic.
I've always believed that "created in his image" did not mean that
God was 5' 8" with bad knees. Instead, it was more of a spiritual and
ethical similarity; that our sense of good mirrored his. It would be
the ultimate in cruelty to create man and give him an innate sense of
justice and fairness that had no relationship to reality.
> In some ways I hope you're
> atheistic view is right because that would mean everyone simply
> goes off
> into non-existence and nothingness. No pain, no feeling, nothing.
Yep. Just like before you were born.
> But in my
> heart and mind I feel God exists and there are eternal consequences of
> accepting Him or not.
And in my heart and mind I feel that such a higher power could have
a value system so opposed to the concept of fairness that is shared
not only by all humans, but by all known social animals.
-- Ed Leafe
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