He gave us free will in order for us to love others, and believe in him. Evil is present to bring out the good.
How is it free will if he threatens you with hellfire if you don't do what he says? "Worship me and live or don't and burn in hell forever" is hardly giving people options.
What kinda nonsense. There's also no objectively solid proof that there's not a giant polar bear who lives behind the sun and punishes Beyonce stans for eternity when they die, doesn't make it sensible to believe in.
1) What a hilarious world this would be
2) This giant polar bear has as much likelihood as God existing, as he does of Obama existing, or me, or your own body, in the philosophical sense. What a mind****, though.
How is it free will if he threatens you with hellfire if you don't do what he says? "Worship me and live or don't and burn in hell forever" is hardly giving people options.
Iff you're going against it, he's not forcing you to, and you have the free will not to.
He gave us free will in order for us to love others, and believe in him. Evil is present to bring out the good.
Then wouldn't free will also be about not believing in him or not love others? Why should I be punished if he gave me free will. If he didn't want me to 'sin' he would have prevented me to sin because he's all too powerful. And if I sinned, he wouldn't make me suffer for eternity because he's all too loving.
I believe that science could be an actual proof of some kind of deity, but all the religions keep paying it dust for some reason so I ain't here for that bs. Also, if there was a god in the form that ppl believe in, he'd be a tyrant and I ain't here for that either.
I don't need an idea of an afterlife to get by, I like knowing that I will become one with the planet after I die..
For the benefit of everyone getting the definition of atheist wrong, agnostic and atheist are not mutually exclusive terms, atheism just refers to a lack of a belief in deities. Most agnostics are atheists and visa versa.
Iff you're going against it, he's not forcing you to, and you have the free will not to.
I *don't beleive in it because there is 0 evidence to support it. I don't believe in Buddha either, not because I'm "going against it" but just because I don't think it's the truth. Free will is giving people the chance to choose one or the other, not heavily encouraging one thing and threatening people if they don't believe the other.
I actually am one of the believers who do not believe in free will. that is, everything that will ever happen has already been mapped out and we are merely playing along in the story (I'm not making this stuff up either lol there's a real science behind it)
Im already there gurl! Come give your fellow satanist a hug
I've read and own the Laveyan satanic bible (funny story, they sell it at barnes and noble ) and I adore the eleven satanic commandments of the earth. I guess you can say for all intensive purposes im a laveyan satanist with love for Lucifer
2) This giant polar bear has as much likelihood as God existing, as he does of Obama existing, or me, or your own body, in the philosophical sense. What a mind****, though.
No. No objective proof =/= equal likelihood dear god.