WHY SHOULD WE TRUST GOD?

[aapatil@cox.net]

WHY SHOULD WE TRUST GOD?
We trust God for the following reasons:1) He is meek and humble, and made the ultimate, and most painful and humiliating sacrifice on the cross to bring us eternal life, although we betrayed him through our sins. 2) He healed the broken hearted, forgave sinners and those who were killing Him without condemning them. 3) He fed the hungry and healed the sick. 4) In the beauty and harmony of His creation we see an infinitely intelligent and loving God. 5) He made us like Him by giving us the ability to unconditionally love others and be creative.
Sometimes, we doubt Him when we see pain, suffering and injustice. However, God had to allow pain and suffering, which is the result of sin in the world, because He gave us a free will so that we can choose love and have peace and joy for all eternity. The suffering of this world will be nothing compared to heaven for all eternity. Furthermore, He took the suffering of all of us on the cross so that we will repent for our sins and have eternal life. Sometimes our prayers appear to go unanswered. God however always does what is best for us in the long run, although it is not apparent to us immediately.

[Veridican]

Sadly, not a shred of evidence...

That's it. I'm just going to stop you right there because that's all atheists ever claim. I've been debating atheists for nearly 30 years. It's the same old line. Even when you offer the evidence, they will not look at it. You have this pretense of intellectualism, but it's just a gross kind of willful ignorance.

You need to be an atheist. It's not about rationalism, or truth, or evidence because all of that is completely overwhelming in favor of a Creator who we call God. But you need, in this life, to be an atheist. You probably just hate Christian religion. But you throw out the baby with the bathwater. You really can't understand Jesus Christ without the Church telling you what to believe, and you can't stand the Church. So, someone else comes along, Richard Dawkins comes alone, Sam Harris, Fredrick Nitsche, et.al. And you follow them. Because you won't lead yourself. You'll never do that.

[otseng]

You lose. And you bloody well know it. You lose. Your atheism is NOTHING.

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[alexxcJRO]

It baffles me how can someone believe in magical stories of damnations, of hell torments in 2022.

Well, it tends to confound the blind.

Imagine how nice will laugh an immortal human 10.000 years in the future with countless clones at his/her disposal(where he/she just transfers consciousness) or an immortal human with a synthetic body made out of almost indestructible alloys if he/she stumbles on this comment by mistake in a archival storage of the internet from 2022 while he/she is cruising through the cosmos. Where his/her only problems are how to escape the heath death of the universe.

You just blathered that science fiction after mocking me for what I believe. Incredible. Absolutely incredible.

That was an exercise of imagination which is millions of time more likely to happen then magical pixies and magical dimensions like hell and lake of fire.
Mapping our entire brain(synapses) and replicating that is not that far fetched.
Cloning has already happened.
Constructing almost indestructible alloys is not science fiction considering Gold, Platinum, Tantalum, Titanium, Palladium, Tungsten, Graphene.
Look at Jules Verne imagination and his books.
Science fiction is just imaginative future science concepts based on already available science and knowledge.

[nobspeople]

For you, that may be exactly right. You may be a good enough person that you will simply "perish" upon death, as opposed to going to hell. God help you, however (pun intended) if you were ever a Christian and ever believed in Jesus Christ in the past. If that's the case, then you have abandoned Christ, just like the apostles did. Just like I did. If that's the case, then you have only this life to repent, or hell awaits. How long you would be in hell before your destruction, I don't know. I hope that's not the case for you. Hopefully, you will just perish like you desire to do. For the record, I am not pronouncing hell on you. I am not your judge, and I have my own mountain of sin to worry about. My hope for you, if you cannot believe, is that you simply perish upon death.

It baffles me how can someone believe in magical stories of damnations, of hell torments in 2022.

Imagine how nice will laugh an immortal human 10.000 years in the future with countless clones at his/her disposal(where he/she just transfers consciousness) or an immortal human with a synthetic body made out of almost indestructible alloys if he/she stumbles on this comment by mistake in a archival storage of the internet from 2022 while he/she is cruising through the cosmos. Where his/her only problems are how to escape the heath death of the universe.

It used to baffle me, as well. Then, after much experience with people, I realized how special the human race is. They can tell others what to believe and what rules they should follow while making excuses for them not to believe or follow those same rules; they spend more time trying to circumvent data in light of a belief instead of trying to help justify their belief along with the data, but only if it suits their needs.
People truly are fascinating.