It is said by scientific materialists that we have no free will and that we are biological machines. Our brains are machines that make us move and perform actions. But if we do have a soul, then does the soul itself have free will? Or is it also a machine? If you think about it, how can free...
Yes, I am open to that possibility. But I also remain open to the possibility that just because God is described as perfect, all loving, and all just does not make it so. Who knows, he could be just trying to earn the trust of his fellow creations so that they serve him when, in reality, it...
I am open to the possibility of an evil cruel God. That sounds like what an evil cruel God would do to me. Not an all loving and all just one who knows what he is doing.
You claim that I am some skeptic who scoffs. This is a big misconception of me. There is a difference between a scoffer and someone with a truly open mind and heart who considers all possibilities. The fact of the matter is, your vision has other possible explanations that you are not taking...
But what else is there to convince me? I have already looked and researched into all the claimed evidence out there regarding both God/afterlife as well as the skeptics with an honest open mind and heart. That is all anyone could ever do. There is nothing more that can be done. If I remain...
This is yet another one of those wild claims out there. Also, I have looked and researched into all the claimed evidence out there regarding Christianity as well as the skeptics with an honest open mind and heart and I have to remain undecided. That is my honest conclusion.
Thank you. That is all I needed to know. I hope others agree with you here. I was just not getting these types of replies in my previous topics is all.
Forget all those other topics I have made. What I want to discuss here is that it is not my choice in going to hell. How can it be my choice if my disbelief in God was out of a genuine and honest mindset? My disbelief is through an honest open mind and heart and I wish to know how I can...
My previous topics were just way too long for anyone to bother reading and replying to. Therefore, I will make this topic which summarizes my point I wish to discuss. I am not lying when I said that I have looked into everything I possibly could with an honest open mind and heart. I am still...
I am not lying when I said that I have looked into everything I possibly could with an honest open mind and heart. I am still undecided on the existence of God and the afterlife. So why wouldn't God reveal himself to me and his truth for someone like me who does indeed have an honest open mind...
I am open to the possibility of the Christian God and hell being real things. What I am trying to do here is point out how it would truly be unfair, unloving, and unjust for me to go to hell in my predicament. The best I can ever do is research with an open mind. My open mind has lead me to...
I am happy since I do at least see great potential in the existence of the afterlife in the studies done by Sam Parnia on the near death experience research as well as the research done by Dean Radin. Like I said, I am undecided, but do see some great potential for the possibility of the soul...
Yes, I have already researched into all of that and I just have to remain undecided since, from my honest open minded perspective, it is no different than those philosophical debates that go on and on and lead nowhere.
Then he is wanting something that makes him not all loving and not all just. He prefers to set up the world and his creation in such a way that they are at risk of being doomed to punishment and hellfire. But a way that does not pose those risks would denote a God who is truly all loving and...
Then that would have to mean that God is not all knowing since if he thought that they would not disobey him, then this means he cannot see into the future and he does not know everything about his creations. Also, why not just remove the apple from plain sight to someplace safe where Adam and...
But if you are punished with flames that are either eternal or destroy your soul, then I think it would be more all just and more loving to have created human beings as copies of God rather than giving them the option to sin.
But that all goes back to my cancer analogue. If cancer is the problem to be avoided in the first place, then it would be asinine and absurd to give this patient cancer or to give him/her the capacity to be inflicted with cancer when there was the solution there all along for this patient to...