If god loves everyone who follows him, then why would he allow them to shoot each other? OR get shot by some non-believer? Wouldn't it make more sense to stop something like that if he's so holy and god like? I don't mind religious people, I actually used to be religious, but I really lost my faith in god after all the stuff that happens.
Bro, what would be the point of free will then?
Jesus lived a sin free life and didn't go to hell after dying because He wasn't taken from God's creation because he is God. God does not belong to Satan. Satan pretty much broke up this world with the Fall of Man, and separated man from God. God could easily have forced them to come back to Him, but God is just and punished them for this in certain ways, one of them being mortality in this world. Despite these punishments, man became more progressively evil such as in the story of Cain and Abel. It even got to a point where He bottle-necked the human race with Noah's Flood. Man was continually straying away from God and into the ways of godlessness. However, God decided to give the future generations an actual chance to be born again with God through Jesus's sacrifice. Many know the message, yet a good amount of them love to push it away because they don't want to feel at fault, especially for something they believe they didn't do. Plus, if God wanted to make creatures with free will, why would He directly violate our will to choose to be with Him or not?
It's really tragic (assuming my faith was real) that most people actually will go to Hell, and most of the reason for not converting is because they see most Christians as hypocrites, and they would be lost to the Devil. The only real way that actually seems to get people on the fence interested is to live the abundant and refreshing life that we are promised by Jesus, praising in whether we are in tough or happy times (Somewhat hard to do on an internet forum). I can't lie, there are a good amount of Christians who do not do this, and this really hurts the people they are supposed to be displaying the message of being reborn to because those people don't see anything significant in it.
What's with people using "God lets bad things happen to good people!" as a religion testing question.
I myself haven't read the bible front to back but I'm pretty sure somewhere in there it'll say something along the lines of the devil being the one causing the bad things.
Psalm 34:19 ESV
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.
Plus man was created with free will, so we can do bad things even without the Devil.
from what isee the devil is already burning in hell.
The Devil manages hell.
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