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>I believe your missing the whole message. This is probably >because your not a believer.
I believe in God. I just don't believe that the Bible is infallible truth. It can't be taken literally - there's too many contradictions and things that just don't make sense. But let's not go down that road, because we'll end up agreeing to disagree.
>>Is he able but not willing? Then he is malevolent. > >Naw, He just keep His word
This is the one that interests me the most, because I wonder if people ever stop to consider that maybe God is malevolent. I mean, He puts us through all the awful shit in the world: pain, sorrow, loss, poverty, oppression, rape, murder, racism, hatred, etc. If he's omnipotent, He could easily prevent it. But He created evil and allows it to continue to exist - why?
I would never let someone I love go through that stuff if it was in my power to prevent it. So, how do we know he is inherently "good" and really loves us? How do we know that this life is not just one big game/experiment for God's amusement?
Of course, one could also take the stance that God is neither good nor evil, neither beneficent nor malevolent, because He is above and beyond such concepts. That discussion doesn't really go anywhere though.
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