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Why would I want to be a different person? I want to improve on myself in area's but to take away all of my bad experience in this life would fundamentally change me or anyone else into a person they no longer would recognize.Well, I can't know for sure what you mean, as I'm only reading words, and not your mind.
..but OK, you don't want to be a "different person".
Dying wasn't enough for you?
Please provide the evidence anyone has done that for me. Also, people and gods can do good and bad things. If Jesus dying for me is good, ok, but he has also done bad things such as instituting the death penalty for homosexuals in Leviticus. Do you think that was good?
Child rape is terrible. If you read the scriptures you know that there will be awful consequences for those who harm children. But why stop there when there are so many horrendous things people do to harm others? If God did not allow people to choose good or evil, to sin or not, to demonstrate love or hate, or to put self or others first, then there would be no real freedom and definitely no such thing as real love.
From the biblical perspective being born again to new life in Christ doesn’t take away your life experiences; good or bad. It does give you a new outlook on life and an eternal perspective. It does give you new desires for loving God and others, rather than living a self-centered life at the expense of others. What makes you think you wouldn’t recognize yourself? Instead, you would be free from the from various sinful tendencies and junk weighing you down.
Unless they are forgiven by Jesus then they will get to live forever with their victims.
God stopping all child rape does not remove the ability for people to choose good an evil.
An infinite being does not have to be good. God being all knowing has to be able to figure out how to get what he wants without child rape. Being all knowing and all powerful it seems he chooses to let it happen.
You claim here that it is a choice to either live a good life loving others with god or live a selfish life without god. There is another alternative I choose. That is live a loving moral life helping others without a god that I cannot know exists and think is immoral if He did exist.
Now you want me to judge God?
I agree.
I agree that is what mainstream Christianity teaches. But that is not my point. My point is that God requires me to change before he will want to be with me.
He does not. You tell that to yourself.
Yes, see if what He does is moral and ethical. How is this a problem? He is loving right and He should be able to explain why his actions are moral.
..but you don't want to be with Him?
He did explain.
Actually, according to the scriptures you cannot change yourself. You must come to Jesus as you are, with the desire to be forgiven. Then you will be made pure in Christ’s perfection and receive eternal life.
And if you are forgiven and saved by Christ, you too will get to live forever with those you have sinned against.
You may think that’s an alternative and you are free to believe that, for now. But it’s not a real alternative because, it’s not reality. The reality is that no finite human being can live a perfectly moral life, we all fall short (Romans 3:23). It’s also nonsense to believe that a finite being can judge the morality of an infinite God.
The Bible says I will be transformed into the likeness of Jesus, 2 Cor 3:18. 2 Cor 5:17 says the believer is a new creation, the old is gone.
