Think of it like a doctor.... If there's a small (say, 1%) chance you have some horrible disease, your doctor will probably tell you not to worry, you probably don't have anything wrong. But, the doc is going to test you and treat you like it's a big deal anyway until he/she knows for sure, because 1% is a big concern due to the shere number of people the doc deals with.
I'm not sure about Dante's levels of Hell. That may be true, it may not, I don't know.So you are of the group that believes Hell has 'levels', depending on one's severity of sin? So someone who was a "good person" and did wonderful things during life would not be treated as harshly as a murderous, greedy dictator. Correct?
This is one area where theists fight amongst themselves more than with non-theists.
At the risk of sounding like FredFlash, I guess that depends on what you mean by worship.
I'm sure you 've heard the argument that there can be no good with no bad. And, I'm sure you've heard the argument that God works in mysterious ways. And, I'm sure you've heard the argument that there's a bigger picture and we'll know it when we go to heaven. So, I'm not sure I can provide you with any meaningful argument that you haven't already rejected.
Scale.
I'm trying to answer you all to the best of my abilities, so I actually didn't realize that.Actually, you're refering to the wrong post - that's not the one I responded to, but you knew that
Most of which I can not use, as I just said. My brain is my most valuable tool because I can evaluate things for myself and question that which I do not understand. The Judeo-Christian God insists I put my emotions first, and I rarely trust them because they are subjective.
Yeah, could you point to which chunk of information that would be? Because I see a lot of them. TIA.This_person said:
Actually, I was a pretty good kid and didn't break too many of the rules. But I get your point. But I also have to say that, even though my mom and grandparents worked to instill me with their values and so forth, they have not been outraged and disowned me for not entirely following their ideals. They are actually happy that I have chosen a path with which I am comfortable.This_person said:
On the scale of the whole world, my daughter being raped would not be a big deal. On the scale of my daughter, myself, my household, what I perceive the world to be, I would be beyond consoling, and I would kill the MFer that hurt my child that way. No questions, I would.
), you've got no comparrison scale-wise. And, in my estimation, this is the scale God looks at things. And, in my estimation, he's given us all of the tools we need to NOT do these things, and let's us succeed or fail based upon our own terms.
If you can accept a reason along the lines of "there's more to life than what we can control and, sometimes, more than we can comprehend", I'd give it to you. But, we've talked, and I don't think you'd accept God allowing bad things to happen without explaining to us, in terms we can understand, why He does that, so I won't try.
On the scale of the whole world, my daughter being raped would not be a big deal. On the scale of my daughter, myself, my household, what I perceive the world to be, I would be beyond consoling, and I would kill the MFer that hurt my child that way. No questions, I would.
I never said it was above or below His attention. My point was that if you compare a kid stealing an apple (a commandment broken), to Heather from accounting and Bob from sales fooling around with each other even though they're both married to someone else (another commandment broken), to Khan (not the Star Trek one
NO, and that's not what I was trying to say.