Skip to main content

Reply to "This Moment In Eternity"

quote:
Originally posted by davidnmiles:
God can be anything that believers want him to be or believe that he is. You apparently believe that God is a pleasant fellow who is rational, merciful and loving. I myself do not believe that there is an actual God who has any bad traits but just beliefs in a God with an unfortunate character.

I am afraid that since man first created God, and described him biblically, he has been portrayed and thought of as cruel, vindictive and irrational. The fact that I am incessantly reminded that I will be spending a rather unpleasant eternity is testimony to the common perception of a cruel, irrational and vindictive God.

Unfortunately, two thousand years of the generally accepted Christian God makes a strong case that, "Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."


So, you believe that God does not actually exist, but his believers have imparted this mythical character with loathesome characteristics, and either manifest those character flaws or use them as some sort of tool over others. I'm not trying to mock or trap you, really.

Truth is, I don't really KNOW what God is like; I know how I believe Him to be.

Untitled Document
×
×
×
×