Obviously the only rational explanation is that an all knowing and all powerful being, who is invisible and who requires that people worship it at
the penalty of eternal punishment just puffed everything into existence.
As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on
penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.
Why would you tell little kids to believe in your fairy tail under
penalty of eternal torture?
If Love is God's primary characteristic, why are 4 of the 10 Commandments demands for obsequious submission upon
penalty of eternal damnation?
Not exact matches
The death
penalty for sin is not only the death
of the body but
eternal separation from the creator.
The
penalty of hell is unimaginably horrific, I have nothing but pity for those who willingly choose it over
eternal life in heaven.
---------------------- No, God imposes an
eternal penalty of pain because men are SINNERS and they love it so.
«If God imposes an
eternal penalty of pain for not accepting him, then he is morally obliged to reveal himself convincingly.»
Also, we normally focus on the
eternal penalties of sin, because they are the most important, but Scripture indicates temporal
penalties are real and go back to the first sin humans committed: «To the woman he said, «I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children (Gen. 3:16).
The mounting opposition to the death
penalty in Europe since the Enlightenment has gone hand in hand with a decline
of faith in
eternal life.
If Christ gave his ministers the ability to forgive the
eternal penalty of sin, how much more would they be able to remit the temporal
penalties of sin!
Why would Jesus have died on a cross to pay the
eternal penalty of sin if He was going to continue that we practice what Catholics call «penance» which no matter how you slice it, means «punishment».
Your 1st commandment says that I must worship only your god — under
penalty of death and
eternal torture.
Jesus didn't only die for the
eternal penalty of sin, but He died to keep His wrath from His people as a whole so they could make a choice.
Bob — his «law», via your 1st commandment, is that everyone must worship only him — under
penalty of death and
eternal torture.
In fact, your 1st commandment demands that I worship only your god — under
penalty of death and
eternal torture.
The gospel is the «good news» that Jesus Christ has paid the
penalties of our sins and graciously extended
eternal life to all who believe in him.
(57) There is not a population but We shall destroy it before the Day
of Judgment or punish it with a dreadful
Penalty: That is written in the (
eternal) Record.
We shall perceive the
eternal justice
of things; for we shall recognise that the world is itself the Last Judgment on it, and we shall begin to understand why it is that everything that lives must pay the
penalty of its existence, first in living and then in dying.
But now if we know Jesus, we know the Father, and we can receive the Holy Spirit through Jesus without risking the
eternal penalty of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
3 — God's existence is withheld from us out
of love so that we do not run into the risk
of violating the
eternal death
penalty of blasphemy.