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Originally Posted by martinguerre
Nope. Overgeneralized.
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Well, I suppose that depends on your particular flavor of Christianity.
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Originally Posted by martinguerre
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Hmmm, the point wasn't to be that God was not caring in the old testament... but where in the new does he punish those who act against his name?
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Originally Posted by martinguerre
As for your last point...your best btw...construction can exisit without destruction. It's the other way around that doesn't work. frankly, i think that our imaginations are used to the stories of violence and death is one of the huge problems we face. it's hard to tell stories that confront our violence, our self-servedness, our evil...but i think it can be done...and that those stories are the ones that are capable of being told beyond evil.
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Construction can, in an infinite universe exist without destruction... in a finite universe it cannot (at some point). Theoretically, in an infinite universe, everything is possible somewhere.
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Originally Posted by tiberry
If God was or is "all (or everything) there is"; as most religious texts describe him or in which he describes himself this way - how could he even realize that he existed? To know myself, I must also know that which is NOT me.
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Incorrect. If God is, in fact, omnipotent and omnipresent, he would then, by default, understand of himself without something to contrast to. Omniscience is something that humans have a hard time (or cannot, perhaps, at all) understanding.
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Originally Posted by aRs3N1c42
That's what distinguishes us from the angels. We have the ability to choose to be obedient.
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So do angels... that's why Azezel was cast down from heaven. Correct?
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Originally Posted by asaris
Secondly, no one ever does evil solely for the sake of doing evil, but for the sake of obtaining some good.
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Disagreed! Some people are evil for the sake of evil. Others are evil due to insanity and not knwoing the difference between good and evil. Some people are bad without any regard to good at all.