From the Daily Sceptic... Matthew 24:9 is coming true: you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake...
https://twitter.com/01brain_dead/status/1790607386908201078
"Muslim candidates and elected representatives… need make no excuses for their personal faith. To criticise a Muslim, or any other minority, for the illiberal tenets of their faith would be prejudicial. But Christians? They’re fair game."
now reading this in the context from my reply to Honor+Duty, i respond by saying we all are created by the One true God. it's who we decide to worship that makes man different from one another.
Totally agree. But where i struggle is when i tell people God knows everything. So if He’s all loving AND all knowing, why create them, then allow your creation to worship something that will lead them to damnation? It’s what I struggle with. My mind goes back to free will but that’s not enough for people.
i def understand what you are saying, but the Bible tells us that Gods ways are not our ways and His ways are much Higher than our ways.
i also struggle with this thought about creating something that i love and to know that creation might burn in eternity seems cruel. to be 100% honest, i don't know how God does this? i often think about how He sees all these children being sacrificed for centuries and how He can take it? but i have to always come back to He is God, He knew all of this would happen and yet He still created us. somethings are not for us to know.
i've been crushed different times and have vented on this site and there are some really, really great people on here that lovingly bring me back. a pede on here called Fractualization (sp?) was very gracious to me in his/her words. i will never forget the time and graciousness of his/her words about our Father. we all have bad days, some worse than others and that's why we have to lean on our brothers and sisters and much prayer because satan works OT on us.
i was asked one day, what happens if you don't believe and you die and there is a God? what happens if you do believe and you die and there is NO God? which one would you rather choose?
what do you lose if you die believing there is a God, and there is a God, you have eternal life. what have you lost if you die and have lived a good life and there is no God? you have lost nothing, you gained a good life. why take the chance? having God in your life is a win/win.
100% agree on having God in life is a win/win. But to your point on creation, imagine having a child and knowing it would become homeless before you conceived? It just seems like a wild concept. Like you said, Gods ways are not our ways. I am sure there’s a reason for all of it.
i agree 100% with you but then i realize i have to trust that God knows exactly what he is doing because if not, it would harden my heart. i def never want that. i guess this is where trust and faith come in?
also time for us is different than time for God. 1,000 years is just a blink of an eye for Him. God bless fren, i hope you find peace.
If God's people did not have free will, then they would be nothing but robots. They would have no option, which means it would not be their desire to do what is right. It would merely be programmed into them.
This desire comes from the spirit, which is the concept of God.
An AI compter can never really learn by way of taking in information from mutiple points of view and then discerning truth from falsehood or place a moral opinion on good versus evil.
The ONLY thing it can do is whatever it was programmed to do. So, the result will never be the truth. It will only be whatever information it can scrape from data sources, and then compile that data in a manner in which it was programmed. It does not KNOW that the answer is true, even if "true" is written into its program to spit out that word as part of its answer. To a machine like an AI computer, it is just 1's and 0's. It is not REAL truth as humans understand it.
It does not have a spirt, and therefore, it cannot be like God.
Imagine creating an AI, and giving it instructions that the ONLY source of data it has access to is Wikipedia. Then, you create a second AI, but with this one you give it instructions that the ONLY data it has access to is GAW.
You could ask any question, but you would get very different answers.
If humans were like that, they would not be capable of doing the work of God. They could only do what they were programmed to do.
Having free will allows humans who understand the spirit to follow the spirit, and those who do not will not.
Maybe God wanted TRUE warriors and not mere lemmings.
This might also explain why the lemmings of the Cabal do not have any spirit. They only do what they are told, without any moral compass.
What you’re saying makes sense. It’s just interesting because I have four siblings, we were all raised the same way. I stuck to my faith in Christ while a few of them have all fallen away. “Spiritual” is what they now call themselves. So what happened along the way that they drifted away and I stuck to it? It’s all confusing and something we probably won’t be able to fully answer until the end.