a few questions that i have about god.(does/CAN he exist??)

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charisenexcelcis

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Demeter said:
i came up with some of them, i realize some (probably all) of the ideas have been thought before i just have not heard both sides of the story and i thought here would be the best place to do so, 1, 2, and 6 i believe i came up on my own others i have heard elsewhere but am still curious.

1- i seem to think it unfair for a god to cast people into hell just because they did not believe in him, billions of people around the world and throughout history have not been exposed to Christianity as much as others, even if they live respectful lives they will still not go to heaven, can god not see they should not be to blame? (i think i read somewhere someone said Gandhi was going to hell, but as a child he was taught to believe different things as us so is it not his parents fault for seeding him with beliefs of a different god?)
In Acts there was a man who did not know God but was seeking Him. God sent a man (Paul) to tell him the gospel. When the Europeans arrived in India they found Christians, from the ministry of one of the original disciples. God knows those who seek truth and sends a witness. And God will, at times, reveal Himself directly to those who seek to know the truth.

3- doesnt god defines himself as good (or he is inherently good)? for all we know he is bad, also society too has its own norms and customs and if god did not exist rape would not be ok, If it were proven that god did not exist then i doubt everything would become chaos, there is still the law of man.
Then why would I know that all the suffering is wrong? I am created in God's image. If He didn't care why would I? We, as humans, have it within our power to end 95% of all suffering and evil, yet we choose not to. The world is broken and only Christianity offers both an explanation and a solution.

4- ok lets just focus on if god hates evil and he is omnipotent then why does evil exist?
God chose to create us with free will. Free will does not exist without the possibility that that will would be exerted against the will of the Creator. Evil exists because free will exists.


I hope that this has been helpful God bless.
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jesus_be4_religion

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Why does it all hinge on faith? Well some of the angels rebelled because they did not want to go along with God's plan(Satan and his pals) and this was with them being in the presence of God. We get the glory of becoming Children of God and an inheritance, if we trust in Gods plan without seeing him or his plan with our own two eyes.
 
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charisenexcelcis

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jesus_be4_religion said:
Why does it all hinge on faith? Well some of the angels rebelled because they did not want to go along with God's plan(Satan and his pals) and this was with them being in the presence of God. We get the glory of becoming Children of God and an inheritance, if we trust in Gods plan without seeing him or his plan with our own two eyes.
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When God reveals Himself overtly, free will ceases. Every knee will bow and every tongue confess. For free will to exists, God remains behind a veil. But don't despair. God is merciful and just. He does reveal Himself to every man, but patiently and gently, enough that only the act of hardening one's own heart stands between faith and spiritual blindness. The angels are different in nature, though they have free will they also are not creatures of mixed nature. They are not capable of repentence and they are of a stronger will than us. Once they decided to rebel, there was no repentance because that is outside their nature. We are capable, even in a fallen state, to retain some shadow of the imago dei. That's why even militant atheists believe in right and wrong.
Be sure, no one will be able to stand before God and claim that he is innocent due to lack of revelation.
 
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Mal316

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1. For God's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, so that men are without excuse. (Romans 1:20)

14(Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, 15since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.) Romans 2:14-15


2. resurrection 33 answered this nicely: "The Lord also communicates directly to us."


3. without God people define their own morality and do what best suits their own agenda.

4. God creates evil. Isaiah 45:7. Evil exists because God created it. God knowing all our thoughts and deeds and what we will do in the future does not take away our free will. "All is foreseen, yet freewill is given."

5. Yes. Not only possible, but actual.

6. I will quote greatkraw on this one: -Theoretically, yes, practically, no. If you have spent your entire life rejecting God then you have made yourself god and at the end will be unable to humble yourself.
And you are assuming you will get reasonable warning of your impending death also God examines the heart and identifies false motives. God is neither weak nor stupid


 
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1) why does god make it necessary for us to believe in him to gain access to heaven? And if god wants all of us to go to heaven then why doesn't he make his existence undebatable and show mankind irrefutable proof?(also if a man is born/ lives in solitary then is it his fault he goes to hell or gods as he was not told about the existence of jesus or god)
God wants us to choose Him. Love is only true love if you choose it. If God would make us zombies who automatically love Him, then it wouldn't be true love. It's obvious you can't love something you don't believe exists. God won't make His existence too obvious, because that would be like forcing people to love Him, because it would be so obvious to us that we'll go to hell otherwise. Right now we have a chance to ignore the truth if don't want God, but that wouldn't be so, if His existence would be too obvious. Never hearing about Jesus and God is not an excuse. A lot of muslims, who have never heard about christianity, have become christians through revelation. They have seeked the true God.

2) If god intended on giving us his word in the form of the bible then why didnt he give us the gift of reading and writing right away and rather give it to us thousands of years after our creation?
People used to be much closer to God in the old testament. Just look at the miracles which happened back in those days. God was able to lead them through His Spirit much more effectively than nowadays, so they didn't need the bible as much as we do now.

3) can there be objective morality without a god? (if god didnt exist would we know the difference between right and wrong)
If God didn't exist, would anything exist? How?
Anyway, we have a conscience, which is like a guide for right and wrong, but I personally wouldn't be able to figure out what is right of wrong just by using my conscience. People have tried that and the result is: people think having sex before marrige and with multiple people is ok, being gay is ok and we could go on with the list..

- is god good? just because god says he is good how can he know that he is relatively good? (we have nothing to compare him to)(he also orders the murder of a few people here and there)
We just know in our heart that love is good. There are many evidences and reasons to be sure that God is love.
He murders people? He could send us all in hell right now and that would be fair, we deserve it. The fact that He hasn't killed us all shows how merciful He is.

4) If god is omnipotent and hates evil then why does evil exist?
Why does good exist? Why does God exist? Why does anything exist? God and good just exists and it goes beyond our minds, we are not capable to understanding it now. If free will exist (which is the only way to true love) then also the choice to be evil exists or it wouldn't be free will.

or if he is all knowing and can do anything then wont he know what he will do in the future then does not have freewill therefore he is not omnipotent?
God can do anything and as I said before, it goes beyond our minds. Do you realise, what "nothing is impossible" means? If God would want, He could go beyond logic. He could contradict Himself and at the same time not contradict Himself. Nothing is impossible for Him and it goes beyooooond our minds.

5) is god as defined by the bible even possible? the many contradictions of his characteristics and reality
It may seem to someone, that there are contradictions, but there aren't. People just either don't understand how things are, because they are not that smart or they are spiritually blind and also... God goes beyond our mind (you must be tired of that sentence, but thats the main sentence to answer all the questions here).

6)can i repent on my deathbed and get into heaven? if Hitler repented and believed in jesus/god is or could he be in heaven?
If Hitler would have truly had a change of heart, if he would've truly turned away from his path to God and accepted the payment which Jesus made, then of course. The first peron who got into heaven was a robber who was hanging on a cross next to Jesus. He had lived all his life in a wrong way, but he had a change of heart shortly before death. He didn't even ask forgiveness, Jesus saw that he had repented.
 
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Dear sir:
Read Thomas Aquinas. He answers all those questions.
In the rare case that one of those isn't answered to your understanding, read some Augustine.
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