Well at least we are moving past abortion. I hope.
Mik, your God post is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read. If this God guy (or gal) is so powerful, how come he/she has done nothing about the Ukraine and Israel situations? Or a zillion previous situations? Like Hitler and WWII? You ever think about seeing a doctor and maybe getting some meds?
P.S. I'm having fun renaming my threads as the topic morphs. Others should try it.
Dude do you realize that because your saying that I believe in God, and not a atheist or agnostic like you, that I am crazy, and should be on meds, etc, because of my belief in God, that you are also saying, whether you realize it or not that all who also believe in God are crazy, should be medicated.
It's that type of thinking, sayings, that have led to persecution of those who believe in God.
I'm not going to get into a argument, debate, long winded discussion with you on about this.
But I will say this. There is a thing called Free Agency and accountability.
People do horribly evil things,vand sometimes God lets people do those things, because of Free Agency, and then afterwards, God holds them responsible, accountable, either let's them experience consequences, or punishes them accordingly.
Sometimes evil people seem to get away with the horrible things they do. But in such cases they will eventually be judged, etc,even if it does not happen until after they die after a long life.
It's kind of like how sometimes as a parent, you sometimes let bad things happen to your children, because sometimes your children have to make choices, experience consequences, on their own, without your interference, etc.
God as our Heavenly Father, Heavenly Parent, sometimes does the same with us.
The other thing is that there is the bigger picture thing, kind of like the sci Fi Star Trek kind of thing where if you can time travel in past, and could prevent a extremely horrible thing from happening, would you, should you? The answer should be no, because what if one of the people you save becomes the next Hitler, etc.
God knows the whole picture. Yes God could stop a attrocity, death, etc, that a person does, but maybe God doesn't stop it, because maybe the victim would have become a Hitler.
Also remember it's NOT God who is doing this, these bad things. It is people who are choosing to do these bad things, not God.
Another reason God doesn't step in, stop things sometimes, is say a person is victimized, suffers, etc, due to another person, and say that adversity forges that person into becoming a force for good, doing good things, etc.
The other thing is that if, since there is a heaven, that a person getting killed, while can, is a bad thing, the going to heaven part is a good thing.
The other thing about this is that we don't know everything, we don't know why bad stuff happens to specific good people. Things don't always make sense.
That's where seeing good in addition to seeing bad, and where seeing the good things God has done, faith comes into play.
Ultimately belief in God is a faith thing, because science will probably not prove God exist, etc.
The only way to know, believe in God, is to pray to God, have God answer your prayers, see or experience miracles, see, get blessings, have faith, exercise faith, etc.
Now some scientific things can seem to maybe prove that God exist.
But it's almost impossible to absolutely prove that God exist scientifically, etc, beyond all, any doubt, etc
The only way that can prove God exist to oneself is to read bible, scriptures, pray, have faith, get answers, see blessings, miracles, holy Spirit of God, etc.
People who believe in God are not crazy and should not be on meds, should not be persecuted.
Just like non believers, atheist, agnostics, etc, no one, etc, should not be persecuted for their beliefs.
