Search results

“Truth without love is too hard; love without truth is too soft.” - John Stott

There is no doublespeak and I meant everything that I said. I don’t have an issue with agreeing or disagreeing with you and I don’t have an issue with you agreeing or disagreeing with me. If we agree, fine. If we don’t agree, fine.

You didn’t understand what I said. For that reason, I spelled it out for you. You want me to say something about God that I’m not saying, and never will. I won’t say that God doesn’t need you. You can say it yourself, if you care to. God doesn’t claim to be needy, and I don’t claim that he is.

Maranatha.

God isn’t a narcissist. You’re seeing something which wasn’t implied. Man must exist in order for man to worship God. It’s as simple as that.

“How long, O LORD, will I call for help and you will not hear? I cry out to you ‘Violence!’ yet you do not save. Why …” (Habakkuk 1:2ff.) Hester panim?

I alluded to scripture. That’s not being obtuse. ”Use your head for something besides a hat rack.” - the universal dad Absolutely not.

Do you really not recognize “God created man (and everything else)“ as an allusion to scripture?

“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” (Isaiah 45:7, KJV) Where are the KJVO people when you need them? “Bad translation” say some in regard to this particular verse, not necessarily the entire KJV. Possible? Possible. (Though I...

Man won’t end the existence of evil; God will put an end to it, eventually.

No. That’s not what I mean by “undeserved suffering”.

If God didn’t allow it, it wouldn’t exist. See above. Also see above.

Is there not such a thing as undeserved suffering?

The fact that God doesn’t tempt anyone doesn’t preclude the fact that evil exists, God allows it to exist, and it exists for a divine purpose. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was placed in the garden by God - not by man, nor by Satan. The point about purpose, but I don’t think it’s...