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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  Why does evil exist, if God wants us all to be good? Why does pain exist, if God heals all wounds? Why do we have free will, if God wants us to make the right choice? |
The only logical answers to these questions are either 1) God isn't what you think he/she/it is, or, 2) God doesn't exist at all. Or I suppose you could also say that God is testing us, but, it doesn't feel right to me that God would like to play games and mess with our heads like that.
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Because the Bible does command you in these matters. This is important: if you want to assert that the Bible is God's mandate in every chapter and every verse, then you need to follow it on every chapter and every verse.
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See! Another rule! Telling us something else we can't do! How can it feel good (or make sense) to live by so many petty rules?! And these aren't the same moral rules like 'do not kill' and 'do not lie', but 'do not eat bacon'.
Same goes for the "do not eat meat on Fridays during Lent." If you can eat meat from Saturday to Thursday, then eating other animals is ok in the eyes of God, and pork is meat. And Jesus ate fish too. I know there's that 'cloven hoof' rule but if killling is wrong then why would killing a different type of animal be ok?
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Yes. So why are you joining this debate? You said it was because you are human and you want to know where you came from, and so on.
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Why isn't that reason enough? I like to talk about this kinda stuff, it helps me see others' points of view and it sure beats talking about the latest celebrity scandal!
Why are YOU joining this debate?