If one wants to put themselves in the position of God, then they have the right to assign themselves to a place where God does not live. To suggest that God wantingly damns people to hell is fanciful - any argument otherwise is destroyed by the Cross, the length of time and the coherence of His justice and forgiveness. The statement that God actively damns and wills people to hell is akin to suggesting that a father proactively determines his daughter to a life of misery and torture. Rather it is the person's choice and desire and freewill (as endowed by God) that he makes that choice of rejection himself.
As CS Lewis says so eloquently: there are two types of people, one that bend their knees to God and say Your will be done and the other who refuses to bend their knee to God and God says your will be done.
If God is not a personal involved relational God then we can rightly infer that He does not care and does not intervene in our lives. He is a sperm and egg donor and walks away. The pantheist, buddhist and new ager ascribe to that idea God is not personal or relational, rather he (or many its) is a consciousness or being that does not relate, but "just is". The objective of the buddhist is to reach nirvana, the nothing, the ultimate reality that subsumes your consciousness into a vapour of nihilism.
Incoherent, unlivable, unreachable, unverifiable and jettisons love.
Why is this relevant to Ironmen?
Because God is a relational God - to exist by oneself, means there is no expression and purpose of or toward anything. I may take it for granted that I am a being that is designed for relationships, but if there was no one else around, then I would not be able to have personhood - Intellect, decisions, emotion.
That is to think that God actively wants to damn you or I to Hell is just ludicrous - to do away with the very beings He wants relationship and communion with. If God is not relational, then humanity is one big lie.
I want to cross examine the thinking you might have that God is 1. A cantankerous old God 2. He is a live and let live God (anything goes airy fairy stuff)
If I do not have a relationship with God then I am like a blind guy searching for the switch in a dark room...
Why is this relevant to Ironmen?
Because God is a relational God - to exist by oneself, means there is no expression and purpose of or toward anything. I may take it for granted that I am a being that is designed for relationships, but if there was no one else around, then I would not be able to have personhood - Intellect, decisions, emotion.
That is to think that God actively wants to damn you or I to Hell is just ludicrous - to do away with the very beings He wants relationship and communion with. If God is not relational, then humanity is one big lie.
I want to cross examine the thinking you might have that God is 1. A cantankerous old God 2. He is a live and let live God (anything goes airy fairy stuff)
If I do not have a relationship with God then I am like a blind guy searching for the switch in a dark room...
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