It is a conceptual truth (or, so to speak, true by definition) that God is a being than which none greater can be imagined (that is, the greatest possible being that can be imagined).
1. God exists as an idea in the mind.
2. A being that exists as an idea in the mind and in reality is...
The above picture of church belongs in the Dark Ages. I have never experienced this in any Christian group anywhere. Your description says a lot about you, however.
What evidence do you have that makes you believe that Christians brush off all the suffering in the world in order to continue 'believing' that God is loving?
Ah! In that case you should have qualified your use of the word ‘depressed’ by preceding it with ‘clinically’. Otherwise the reader may believe that you are unaware of the difference between subclinical and clinical depression. She/he may believe your actual words: “People who are depressed...
My point is that you were wrong when you said that people who are depressed have trouble eating and sleeping or doing anything at all, and many cannot even work.
Do you admit that you were wrong?
Do you realize that it is clinically depressed people who fit your description of symptoms?
Just that you are wrong when you say that people who are depressed have trouble eating and sleeping or doing anything at all and many cannot even work.
This is not true.
People who are clinically depressed have trouble eating and sleeping or doing anything at all and many cannot even work.
Don't...
Do you have any proof concerning Bahsismof your proof
You say this because your eyes are closed, Tb. One has to be self-aware to know what one 'needs'. But God loves you anyway.
IMO.
Hmm, this is very telling, in my opinion. Here is someone who asks posters on an internet forum to convince her that God is loving.
Then she says that she did not expect any of us to be able to do this.
So why did she ask us?
It would, she says, be fun to watch us try.
But what has happened now...
You ask to be convinced God is loving. Do you want to be convinced? I ask because you appear to be convinced that He is not loving. Do you think it is possible you could be convinced by someone on an internet forum?
If you really do want to be convinced --- why do you want to be convinced?